The Roanoke College baseball team will play an Old Dominion Athletic Conference doubleheader on the road this Saturday at Hampden-Sydney. The opener starts at 1 pm as the two rivals jockey for position in the ODAC standings.
Coming into the week the Maroons were in seventh place in the conference standings with a 5-7 record while Hampden-Sydney was one spot higher in sixth at 6-6. The Maroons were scheduled to play 4-8 Averett in Danville this week but results were too late for publication, and Roanoke also had a non-conference game with Pfeiffer University in North Carolina.
The Maroons were the host team for a doubleheader with Washington & Lee last weekends, and that game was played at Calfee Park in Pulaski as the Salem RidgeYaks occupied Salem Memorial Ballpark. Roanoke won the first game, 14-4, but the Generals rallied to take the nightcap, 20-10.
In the opener sophomore Danny Ferguson hit his first two career home runs in the third and fifth innings. Liam Murphy also had a home run, his third of the season and 11th of his RC career. Nate Prince led the Maroons with three hits while Chase Booth got the win on the mound, going five and a third innings.
In the second game Roanoke took an early lead but the Generals rallied for a slaughter-rule win in eight innings. Michael Hetzel and Noah Donaho, both freshmen, led RC with three hits each. Hetzel and Hayden Giordano drove in three runs each.
The split left the Maroons at 17-10.
