Wesleyan Tops Baseball, 9-7

DAVENPORT, Fla. – Suffolk baseball dropped a back-and-forth battle with Wesleyan, 9-7, Wednesday night under the lights at NERP Complex at the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.  

THE BASICS
SCORE: Suffolk 7 | Wesleyan 9
RECORDS: Suffolk (0-6) | Wesleyan (1-4)  

HOW IT HAPPENED

• A lead-off triple by Jack Mihalchik helped Suffolk grab a 1-0 lead in the first frame. The run scored courtesy of Luke Thornton's productive ground out to second. 
• The Cardinals flew in front 3-1 in the home half of the first behind two hits, a Rams' error and a wild pitch.
• The distance doubled in the bottom of the second as Wesleyan tacked on two more runs thanks to three and a blue-and-gold fielding mishap. 
• Suffolk made up some ground in the top of the third. Shayne King singled and two batters later Thornton walked. After a loud out by Cole Hilliard to center, Sebastian Lampert's single to right scored King and put Rams on first and second. Sam Armbruster cleared the bags with a deep triple to left center to trim the deficit to one, 5-4. 
• Wesleyan got on back in the bottom of the fifth as back-to-back walks put runners on for James Marsden's RBI single to right field that put Suffolk in a 6-4 hole. 
• A two-run moon shot off Ross Treubig's bat locked things at 6-all. The sophomore's jack brought in Colin Flynn, who reached base on balls. The Rams offense did not stop there as Thornton's sac fly to right scored King, who wore a pitch, to give the blue-and-gold's its first lead of the night, 7-6.
• A bases loaded hit by pitch and a ground rule, two-run double off Jonah Timmon pushed Wesleyan back in front, 9-6, in the bottom of the sixth. 
• Suffolk had an opportunity to respond in the sixth, but the Cardinals made the Rams strand a pair. The score stood still from there as Jack Raimo took over the mound for the blue-and-gold and Ned. Shapiro shut down the Rams bats. 

PITCHERS PICTURE

• Cam Martin took the loss as he gave up two runs on one hit and two walks with one strikeout in 0.1 innings out of the pen. 
• John McDevitt started and allowed five runs on five hits and two walks with one K in 1.2 innings of work. 
• Nick Rubin (4.0 IP, 2 R, 2 H, 3 BB, 5 K) and Raimo (1.2 IP, 1 K) both came in in relief for the Rams. 
• In a staff day for the Cardinals, reliever Yash Deasi earned the decision. He allowed three runs on three hits and two walks with four puchouts in 3.0 innings. 
• Ned Shapiro picked up the save with 2.0 innings of scoreless relief with one walk let up and one K. 
• Olivier Dmochowski (1.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 2 K) started and Colin Lautzenhesier (3.0 IP, 3 R, 5 H, 3 BB, 3 K) saw time on the hill for Wesleyan as well. 

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING

• Mihalchik had two hits including one triple to go along with one run scored. 
• Thornton brought in two runs, had one hit, a triple, one walk, one run and one sac fly. 
• Armbruster brought in two runs on one hit, a triple. 
• Trebubig registered two RBI behind one hit, a dinger. His stat line featured one run as well. 
• King scored twice and had one hit. 
• Lampert logged one RBI, one hit and one run.

NOTEWORTHY

• Suffolk and Wesleyan met for the second time, first since 2004. 
• Tonight's contest was the first-ever neutral site contest between the Rams and Cardinals.
• The Rams had two triples in one game for the first time since hitting a pair versus Lasell March 1, 2025. 
• Treubig knocked his first collegiate homer. It was the first bomb of the 2026 season for Suffolk. 
• Mihalchik, who had the first triple of his collegiate career, stretched his hit streak to three games. He has five hits over that span and matched a personal-best two hits tonight. 
• Thornton tallied his first collegiate triple and RBI (2). 
• King scored the first runs of his collegiate career and finished with two. 
• Armbruster has produced one hit in the last four games.  

WHAT'S NEXT?
Suffolk concludes its Spring Training trip tomorrow, Thursday, March 12 against St. Scholastica at 1:00 p.m.