NEWTOWN, Pa. – The Anne Arundel Community College baseball team picked up a pair of wins at Bucks County Thursday, defeating the Centurions, 9-4 and 11-1 (5 inn). The Riverhawks were a perfect 11-for-11 in stolen bases on the day.
Game One
The Riverhawks exploded for six runs in the third inning to take command of the game. They added two more in the second and a single run in the seventh.
Nicco Holland drove in the Riverhawks' first two runs before consecutive singles from Chris Ricks, Griffin Klein, and Sebastian Casanova sent three more across. A sac fly from Sam Ross plated AACC's final run of the inning.
Bucks County got one back in the fourth using a leadoff double and a subsequent wild pitch to set up the score.
Singles from Sebastian Casanova and John Greenawalt in the fifth edged the Riverhawks ahead, 8-1.
The Centurions took advantage of some errant pitching in the sixth to score three runs before a Greenawalt sac fly in the seventh scored AACC's final run.
Reliever Caden Houck earned the win, allowing one run on one hit while striking out two in two innings of work. Jordan Bonhoff went two as the starter, allowing three hits and a walk while also fanning two. Kyle Smoak and Nolan Spring made shorter relief appearances with Smoak getting tagged for three runs on one hit while striking out two, and Spring closing out the game with one hit over 1.1 innings.
Game Two
The Riverhawks scored in all but two innings of the shortened second game. AACC combined for six stolen bases in the game, led by two each from Ricks and Conner Bosley.
The Riverhawks scored twice in the second, using a Klein RBI single and a bases-loaded walk drawn by Holland to take the early lead. They added another run in the third after Bosley reached via error, stole second and third, then scored on a Ricks sac fly to left.
With runners on second and third in the third inning, an infield error surrendered the lone run to the Centurions. AACC responded in the fourth with five runs to take an 8-1 lead. Holland sent three across on a bases-loaded single. Russell Turner drove in one with a an infield hit, and the final run came across on a Ricks groundout.
The Riverhawks added three more in the fifth as Holland was up with the bases loaded again, this time reaching via error. Rodolfo Llobet plated one with a groundout and Bosley sent the last one across with a single to center.
A leadoff double in the fifth by the Centurions threatened to loom over the Riverhawks. After getting runners on second and third, an infield groundout was placed just in AACC's favor, holding the two runners on base. Then the Riverhawks closed out the game with a double play.
Sebastian Casanova had the start with four hits allowed and one strikeout through two innings. Zach Ford, Donny White, and Jackson Burchick each threw one inning in relief, with White picking up the win.
AACC returns to action on Saturday, April 20, in a 12 p.m. doubleheader against Chesapeake at Skip Brown Field.