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Box Score 2 GREENSBORO, N.C. – Kyle Wooden had six hits and five RBI to lead Guilford College to its first doubleheader sweep of Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) rival Virginia Wesleyan College Saturday. The wins ended the Marlins' (12-18, 6-7 ODAC) six-game winning streak in the season series with Guilford (14-16, 7-5 ODAC).
Wooden homered in the first inning and had two hits in the Quakers' 5-3 win in the opener. He went 4-6 with a double and three RBI in the nightcap, an 18-6 Guilford rout. The senior first baseman raised his league-leading batting average to an even .500 for the season.
Wooden's two-run homer in the first inning and Bryan Bialecki's two-run double in the second helped Guilford open a 4-0 lead and chase Marlins' starter Alex DeJesus (3-4) in the second inning. Reliever Mike Wiley entered for Virginia Wesleyan and shut the Quakers out for four-and-two-thirds innings, which helped the Marlins get back in the game with single runs in the fourth, seventh and eighth innings.
Kent Peterson's run-scoring ground out in the bottom of the eighth provided the game's final margin. Quakers' closer Sammy Stuart slammed the door in the ninth for his team-leading third save. Both he and eighth-inning hurler Will James were aided by double plays turned in the inning. Lefty Eric Backus (2-0) yielded four hits and fanned two in a career-long seven-plus innings.
Shayne Paskanik and Cam Butler both had two of the Marlins' six hits in the game.
Virginia Wesleyan took a 2-0 lead in the second inning of game two on Ryan Estrella's RBI single and Paskanik's steal of home plate.
Marlins starter Josh Miller (0-1) cruised into the fourth inning before Guilford erupted for seven runs. The Quakers banged out six hits off of three different pitchers and took advantage of three of the Marlins' six errors in the game. Wooden had a two-run single in the inning.
Guilford had an 8-3 lead when it scored another seven runs, all with two outs in the sixth inning. D.J. Phillips blasted a three-run homer, one of seven straight Guilford hits in the frame.
The Quakers finished with 21 hits in the contest, four by Wooden and three apiece by Bialecki, Peterson and Ben Esser. Phillips finished with four RBI. The offensive outburst made a winner out of freshman Borja Jones-Berasaluce (2-3), who pitched seven innings before Will Henschel finished with two scoreless innings.
Jacob Pierce was 2-4 with a double and two runs scored for the Marlins.