WESTMINSTER, Md. – McDaniel got into the Centennial Conference championship tournament at the expense of the Ursinus College baseball team on Saturday, beating the Bears 6-2 and 15-4 in Maryland.
Junior Vincent Terry was 4-for-6 with two doubles, two RBI, and a run on the day for Ursinus (16-23, 2-16), while classmate CJ Diana hit a three-run homer – the second long ball of his career – in the nightcap.
Marty Windisch – who leads the Centennial Conference in wins (9) on the mound and in batting average (.441) at the plate – used his arm to corral the Bears in Game One. The right-hander scattered seven hits and gave up two runs, striking out seven in a complete-game effort that needed only 99 pitches.
McDaniel (30-8, 11-7) – which was ranked as high as No. 21 in Division III this season – struggled for the first five innings against Ursinus starter Sean Pisik, who held the Green Terror to a run on five hits until the home side broke it open in the sixth. McDaniel scored five runs on three hits, utilizing two Bear errors to take command.
Ursinus got a run back on Terry's run-scoring triple in the eighth, but Windisch finished off his complete game.
Terry was 2-for-2 with two RBI in the opener, and junior Austin Kurey had a double and a triple in a 2-for-4 effort. Junior Jake Banks singled and scored two runs.
Pisik (4-3) gave up four runs (three earned) on eight hits with three strikeouts and two walks in five-plus innings.
Trailing 2-0 early in Game Two, the Bears jumped on top on Diana's three-run shot in the top of the second. McDaniel tied it on Windisch's RBI single in the bottom half before scoring three runs in the fifth, the last two on Eric Grantland's two-run bomb, to go ahead 6-3. The Green Terror sent 13 men to the plate in a seven-run sixth to clinch their spot in next week's CC playoffs.
Grantland finished 3-for-4 with two runs and four RBI for the Green Terror, and Windisch went 5-for-6 with three RBI and two runs scored. McDaniel racked up 22 hits in the second game, though just two went for extra bases.
Senior Chris Jablonski was 3-for-4 in the nightcap and registered his 100th career RBI with a run-scoring single in the top of the seventh. Jablonski became only the second player in program history to record 150 hits and 100 RBI for a career.
Terry finished 2-for-4 with a run, and sophomore Matt Radwanski (0-3) took the loss after allowing six runs on 11 hits in 4.2 innings.
Ursinus concludes the regular season at Gwynedd Mercy on Monday, May 2.