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braden hemmer
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William Woods (MO) WWU 24-18
11
Winner Columbia (MO) COLUMBIA 28-11-1
William Woods (MO) WWU
24-18
6
Final
11
Columbia (MO) COLUMBIA
28-11-1
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
William Woods (MO) WWU 0 0 0 0 2 4 0 0 0 6 9 6
Columbia (MO) COLUMBIA 0 6 0 4 0 1 0 0 X 11 8 4

W: Strickland, Aiden (1-1) L: Parker Ausin (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Fruend, Renn, Hees Go Deep as Cougars Down Owls

COLUMBIA, MO – Zac Fruend, Tyler Renn and Hunter Hees each launched home runs as Columbia College powered past William Woods University in non-conference action Tuesday evening at home, 11-6. With the win, the Cougars improve to 28-11-1 overall.

Columbia erupted for six runs in the second inning to set the tone, then added four more on back-to-back-to-back home runs in the fourth to put the game away early. Hees got the power display started in the fourth with a two-run shot that scored Jack Dunn, pushing the Cougar lead to 8-0. Fruend followed two batters later with a solo blast, then Renn deposited one over the fence in the next at-bat to make it 10-0. Fruend finished the evening 2-for-5 with three RBI, while Renn went 2-for-4 with two RBI and Hees drove in three.

The big second inning was a combination of timely hitting and William Woods miscues. Braden Hemmer reached on a walk and came home on a Jack Dunn fielder's choice to open the scoring. An error by the Owls' first baseman brought home another run, then Fruend sliced a single through the left side to plate two more. Dylan Carlton followed with a run-scoring double to right center, and Renn capped the frame with an RBI single up the middle to make it 6-0 after two.

Carlton finished with two RBI on the evening while Dunn added a hit, two runs scored and an RBI out of the nine hole.

Noah Gadberry got the start for Columbia and was sharp, tossing two scoreless innings while allowing just one hit and walking one. Hayden Wilson came on in the third and earned the win. Wilson worked 3.1 innings, scattering seven hits, and was aided by the large cushion. Brendan Wilson and Aiden Strickland followed in relief, with Strickland delivering the most dominant stretch of the evening — 2.2 innings of no-hit ball with six strikeouts. Hees closed things out with a clean final frame.

William Woods made things interesting in the sixth, stringing together a Jared Bendfield RBI double and a Camron Casso run-scoring single around a pair of Brendan Wilson wild pitches to plate four and cut the deficit to 6-10. Columbia answered in the bottom half when Hunter Hees reached on a pair of Owls errors — one by the third baseman, one by the catcher — and came home on a Dylan Carlton groundout to restore the five-run cushion at 11-6. Strickland slammed the door from there, retiring the final eight batters he faced while punching out six.

Statistical Leaders: Columbia def. William Woods, 11-6

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