BY JOHN D. HOMAN
Logan Media Services
ULLIN – Call it a three-game sweep for the John A. Logan College baseball squad as the Vols took a pair of games from Shawnee College Saturday, 2-0 and 14-2, a day after notching a 5-0 win in Carterville.
Sophomore Derek Thompson was simply amazing in the opener, tossing a complete-game shutout, allowing only two hits in his seven innings of work. Thompson (5-1), struck out 11 and walked three.
Logan plated both of its runs in the fifth inning. Sophomore third sacker Keelin Rasch of Harrisburg led the charge with two hits in four at bats, including an RBI single. J.C. Davis contributed a double. Others notching one hit apiece were: Tanner Scott, Joba Ferrell, John Tolliver, and Dontrell Rush. DeJohn Suber did not get a hit, but scored a run.
In the finale, the Vols erupted for 17 hits as led by sophomore Anthony Bayus’s collection of four. He also had an RBI and two runs scored. Davis was 3-for-4 with three runs scored. Derek Repking bashed three hits, as well, including a pair of runs batted in. Rasch made the most of his two hits with a two-run homer and single and drove in five of his team’s runs. Scott followed with two hits and two RBIs. Rush had two hits and two runs scored. Ferrell tacked on one hit with an RBI.
The Vols scored four runs in the first; five in the second; two in the third and three in the sixth.
Winning pitcher was Chris Hunt. The sophomore righthander went the first four innings, surrendering two runs, one earned. He gave up five hits, struck out five and walked one. Anthony Spangler tossed the final two frames, striking out three.
The Vols (15-13) are scheduled to play at Jefferson College in Hillsboro, Mo. Tuesday and will host Southeastern Illinois Thursday at 3.
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