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Box Score 2 BELOIT, Wis. - Beloit's baseball team continued to operate at mid-season form Sunday afternoon, sweeping a doubleheader against Knox by scores of 10-0 and 13-0 to remain atop the Midwest Conference standings with a 7-0 record in league play. The Buccaneers swept their three-game weekend series against Knox by a combined score of 36-0. They have now pitched a shutout in four consecutive games, marking the longest such streak on record in program history, with their current scoreless innings streak extending to 31 innings.
Beloit (12-5, 7-0 MWC) broke a scoreless tie in the first game during the second inning, which saw
Evan Zenger score on a passed ball. The Buccaneers would add five more runs in the fifth, which was highlighted by a two-run home run to centerfield by
Brett Kiger.
Jimmy Yanow also drov in a pair of runs with a double to left, while
Matt O'Leary scored on a Knox error.
Kiger added an RBI single in the sixth, while O'Leary drove in a run in the seventh with a single to right.
Deven Irwin would cap the scoring and end the game with a two-run single to center field.
Beloit recorded 15 hits in the contest, led by Irwin's 3-for-5 performance. Kiger, Zenger, Vogel, and O'Leary each finished with two hits.
Eamon Burke (2-1) earned the win, firing six scoreless innings, while yielding three hits and striking out eight batters, while walking just one.
The Bucs completed the series sweep with a 13-0 victory in the nightcap, which saw them score three times in the first, before putting up a nine-spot in the second. Their only other run in the contest came in the bottom of the third.
Beloit finished the second game with 15 hits, as Ferone, Vogel, Zenger,
Miles Souza, Irwin, and
Jack Alport all recorded two hits.
Kaiya Nishino (3-1) earned the win, allowing just three hits and striking out four without issuing a walk in five scoreless innings.
The Buccaneers will be in action again on Tuesday when they'll host Rockford University at ABC Supply Stadium. That game will begin at 6 p.m., as Beloit looks to extend their current win streak to nine games.
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