Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 ELGIN, ILL. - The Madison College baseball team pushed its current win streak to four games with a weekend sweep of Elgin Community College in a Region 4 doubleheader on Sunday. The #4-ranked WolfPack earned a 13-3 victory in the day's first game, and followed with an 11-0 shutout in five innings in the finale. The wins also give the Pack a six-game win streak over the Spartans and a 33-21 lead in the all-time series. 

Game #1: #4 Madison College 13, Elgin Community College 3 (7 innings)

A walk, a steal, an error, and a Charlie Marion single to plate Nick Nowak to start the game gave the WolfPack an early 1-0 lead, and Madison added two more in the first inning with a Carter Stebane sacrifice fly and Ryan Santi RBI-single with two outs. Another run brought in by Clayton Slack's pop fly single to shallow right in the third made it 4-0.

The bottom of the fourth inning saw four walks and two hits, which yielded three runs for Elgin to bring the differential to one. Madison came right back in the fifth inning with eight runs to blow the game wide open. Santi ripped a double to left to bring in Grant Ross and Stebane, and then scored two batters later with a single by Dayton Rozinski-Hicks. Gabe Roessler followed with a double to right that scored Slack, and Rozinski-Hicks crossed home courtesy of a Nowak sacrifice fly. Marion drove in one more with his two-bagger to center, and Ross capped the 12-batter inning with a two-run double to center that scored Will Johannes and Marion. Stebane added one more RBI for good measure in the seventh to provide the final ten-run difference.

Pitchers Alex Hayes (3-0) and Allen Leitner kept the ECC bats at bay while the offense was doing its thing. Hayes stayed perfect on the season despite three earned runs on five hits and four walks. He struck out five before Leitner worked a pair of scoreless innings with three K's, two hits, and a walk.

Four players registered multiple hits, with Stebane and Marion each finishing with two hits, two runs scored, and two runs batted in. Santi, an Oak Creek, Wisconsin, native set a career-high with three RBI on two hits, and also scored a run. Madison finished with 13 hits, five of which went for extra bases.

Game #2: #4 Madison College 11, Elgin Community College 0 (5 innings)

The WolfPack picked up right where they left for Game 2, producing nine or more runs for the seventh straight game and racking up double-digit hits for the fifth consecutive outing. Three hits, two errors, and a walk in the first inning handed the visitors a 4-0 lead, with Charlie Marion picking up another run batted in. Gabe Roessler's pop fly single to center in the second inning drove in Marion, who hit a two-out triple in the prior at-bat. 

Elgin Community College (6-9) surrendered two more runs in the third to make it 7-0, with both runs scoring on consecutive fielder's choice ground balls. The WolfPack completed their scoring in the fourth with three consecutive run-scoring base hits. Ryan Santi and Payton Frehner each had a two-out single that scored a run, and fellow first year Trace Kirchberg tripled to center to bring them in for the 11-run edge.

First year righthander Andres Kleinsek (2-0) dominated from the hill, scattering three hits, one walk, and three hit batters over five shutout innings to secure his second collegiate win. The former Verona Area HS athlete struck out a career-best six batters. 

Marion, a native of Franklin, Wisconsin, owns a four-game hitting streak with multiple hits in each contest after leading the team with a career-best three hits and three runs scored. He also drove in a run and finished the day with five hits, five runs scored, and two RBI.

Santi, Roessler, and Frehner each had two hits in the game, with Santi driving in a career-high three runs for the second consecutive game. The other two each scored a run and drove in one, while Kirchberg match Santi with three runs batted in.

Up Next: 

Madison College (14-3) was scheduled to begin North Central Community College Conference play on Monday, April 3 against the College of DuPage, however, forecasted storms and field conditions forced the doubleheader to be rescheduled for the second time. It will be played Wednesday, April 19, starting at 2:00 p.m. The WolfPack are slated to host former N4C rival Rock Valley College (14-10) on Tuesday, April 4 for the start of a home-and-home series of 1x9 matchups. First pitch is set for 3:00 p.m. at Robin Roberts Field, with the second meeting coming Thursday in Rockford, Illinois. Madison leads the Golden Eagles 39-22 in the all-time series and have won four straight meetings.

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