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W&L Baseball Splits Twinbill With Guilford

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W&L Baseball Splits Twinbill With Guilford

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Junior rightfielder Bryan Mulhern (Chadds Ford, Pa./Unionville) hit a grand slam and a two-run homer and drove in a school-record eight runs to lift the Washington and Lee baseball team to a 14-3 win over Guilford in the second game of a doubleheader on Saturday in Greensboro, N.C. The win gave the Generals a split after the Quakers took the first game, 5-4.

W&L (22-5, 15-3 ODAC) broke the second game open in the top of the fifth. Already ahead 6-0, W&L doubled its advantage by pushing six more runs across, four of which were courtesy of Mulhern's grand slam to left-centerfield.

In the ninth inning Mulhern set the new single-game standard for RBIs with his second home run of the game, and team-best sixth on the season, a two-run shot to center that plated senior first baseman Brian Gladysz (Palm Harbor, Fla./Berkeley Prep).

Junior righthander Dan Kagey (Marietta, Ga./Lovett) got the win, improving to 7-2 on the season after surrendering one run on eight hits over seven innings. Guilford starter Dave Shaffer fell to 6-5 after getting touched for six runs on seven hits in 3 1/3 innings of work.

The Quakers (26-12, 12-6 ODAC) picked up their fifth consecutive win in the first game when they took advantage of two Generals' errors to score four unearned runs in the bottom of the second inning.

Trailing 5-2 in the top of the seventh inning, W&L mustered a two-out rally and provided the final margin on junior second baseman Austin Allain's (Weston, Mass./Weston) two-RBI single.

Junior lefthander Peter Dean (Vienna, Va./James Madison) took the loss, falling to 6-2 after allowing five runs (one earned) on five hits and one walk in six innings of work. Senior Mike Goettler upped his mark to 8-1 on the season after rationing W&L to three runs on four hits and four walks over six innings.

Mulhern went 4-for-8 on the afternoon, while Gladysz was 4-for-6 with two RBIs. Allain finished 3-for-9 with five RBIs and three runs.

The second-seeded Generals begin play in the ODAC Tournament on Thursday at Ernie Shore Field in Winston-Salem, N.C., when they face Lynchburg at 3:00 p.m.

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