SALEM, Va. – The Washington and Lee baseball team improved to 21-3 overall, 14-2 in the ODAC with a 5-1 win over Roanoke on Tuesday evening at Salem Memorial Stadium.

The Generals struck first in the top of the second when sophomore catcher Zach Bausch (Vienna, Va./McLean) hit a solo home run, his third of the season, over the leftfield wall.

Senior shortstop Michael Hanson (Atlanta, Ga./Pace Academy) then brought home junior pitcher Bryan Mulhern (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) in the top of the fourth when he drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk.

After Roanoke (8-15, 1-17 ODAC) used three singles in the bottom of the fifth to plate its lone run, W&L came back with a score of its own as junior second baseman Austin Allain (Weston, Mass./Weston) singled home freshman third baseman Scott Gosselink (Austin, Texas/St. Stephen's Episcopal). Ahead 3-1 at that point, the Generals overcame a pair of baserunning blunders and added two insurance runs in the seventh inning for the final margin.

Bausch's 2-for-4, two RBI-night led W&L. Hanson, senior centerfielder Bobby Littlehale (Villa Park, Ill./Willowbrook) and junior leftfielder Dan Kagey (Marietta, Ga./Lovett) each finished with three hits apiece.

Second baseman Robby Hoopes went 1-for-2 at the plate to lead Roanoke, which managed just five hits on the evening.

Mulhern threw seven innings, allowing the one run on five hits and no walks to improve to 3-0 on the season. Ben Defibaugh (2-1) surrendered three runs on nine hits over six innings and was saddled with the loss for the Maroons.

W&L, which clinched at least a second-place finish in the ODAC with the win, wraps up its regular-season ODAC slate with a doubleheader at Guilford on Saturday. First pitch is slated for 12:00 pm.

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