The Muskingum baseball team dominated William Peace over both games of their doubleheader action on Saturday. The Muskies move to 6-0 on the season with the win's today, which is the best start in program history for the Muskies.

Notables

• The Muskies are off to the best start in program history with a 6-0 record to start this season.

The Basics

• Records: Muskingum (6-0 overall), William Peace (0-8 overall)
• Location: USA NTC

Game 1

• The Muskies scored nine runs, had nine hits, and drew three walks.
• Senior Tobie Teke, freshman Lex Castaneda, and sophomore Benny Hess led the Muskies with two hits a piece.
• Hess fired off the lone home run for the Muskies.
• Senior Weston Melick added one hit, one RBI, and one run scored.
• Sophomore Conner Thamann logged a hit and a RBI.
• Sophomore Grant Mellerson added one hit and three RBI's in the contest.
• Mellerson and freshman Jasper Owens logged a stolen base in the game.
• Graduate Student Erik Cover logged 8.2 innings of action on the mound for the Muskies. Cover came away with the win while only giving up two earned runs.
• Junior Lane Goetz came in for 0.1 innings to put the game away for Muskingum.

Game 2

• Muskingum tallied 15 runs, 14 hits, six walks, and two stolen bases.
• Mellerson and Owens led the Muskies with three hits in the contest.
• Owens tallied two runs scored and two RBI's.
• Mellerson logged a triple in the game and also scored four runs.
• Teke came away with two hits, two RBI's, one walk, and three runs scored.
• Melick knocked two hits in the contest with two RBI's.
• Teke and Thamann stole a base each in the game.
• Sophomore Shoei Yamashita earned the win on the mound with seven innings of work where he struck out seven batters.
• Castaneda and senior Gino Barber both handled an inning of action for the Muskies to round out the game on the mound.

Up Next

• The Muskies will conclude the series against William Peace tomorrow, Sunday, March 2 at 12:00 p.m.