MASON, Ohio - - UVA Wise and Ohio Dominican split a non-conference baseball doubleheader at Legacy Field Saturday. The visiting Cavaliers scored an 8-3 win in the opener before the Panthers won the finale 7-1.
UVA Wise( 1-9) received strong pitching from Daniel Kanagy and Hunter Anderson in the opener while taking advantage of five Ohio Dominican (1-1) errors to score the Cavaliers' first win of 2023.
Brandon Costa's team got on the board first without a hit in the top of the first inning. Morgan Miller reached on an error to start the game before Matt Frye walked to put two on without an out.
Miller would eventually come around to score on Hunter Meador's RBI groundout.
After Kanagy worked around a two-out single in the bottom of the first, his offense plated three runs in the top of the second.
Dakota Sisson started the uprising with a two-out walk before Frye and Carter Babb each lined RBI hits.
The score would remain unchanged until the sixth when UVA Wise's Cole Harness doubled home Frye to make it a 5-0 affair.
Ohio Dominican battled back in the home half of the inning as Alex Brill tripled in Michael McFadden for the Panthers first run of the day. Later in the inning, an error would allow two more runs to scamper home making it a 5-3 contest moving to the seventh and final inning.
UVA Wise would put the game to bed when Harness cleared the bases with a three-run double.
Anderson would close the game out with a perfect seventh to give the visitors their first win of the year.
Harness finished with four RBI in the game while Frye lined two hits and scored three runs.
Kanagy earned the mound win, his first in a Cavalier uniform while Anderson picked up his first save of 2023.
Marshall Flynn would control game two from the mound. The Ohio Dominican senior fired a complete game four-hitter while striking out eight UVA Wise hitters to even the series at a game each.
The Panthers scored six times over the first three innings as David Silva led off the home first with a solo homer to jump-start an offense that lined eight hits.
An inning later, Silva lined a RBI single before a four-run third put the game out of reach.
Senior Jesse Kramer produced the decisive hit with a three-run triple in what was opening day for Ohio Dominican.
The Cavs scored their lone run on a run-scoring single from Meador in the sixth but Flynn put the threat to rest with one of his eight strikeouts.
Costa's team was limited to four hits with Miller, Frye, DJ Dickson and Meador having a hit each.
Nash Bingham and David Kelliher had scoreless relief appearances for the guests
UVA Wise and Ohio Dominican will wrap up the series tomorrow with a single game beginning at noon.
