COLUMBUS, Ohio – Junior Alberto Canales (West Park, Fla.) needed just 70 pitches to throw his first collegiate complete game as Ohio Dominican's baseball team split a Saturday GLIAC doubleheader with Findlay, falling 9-3 in game one before taking a 7-1 win in game two.

Canales allowed just seven hits and one walk while punching out two in the second game. He threw 48 of his 70 pitches for strikes in improving to 2-2 on the spring.

Trailing 1-0 in the third, freshman Kyle Burson (Brunswick, Ohio) launched his second home run in the past three games – a solo shot to left – to even the score.

The Panther offense then broke free in the fourth. Senior Anthony Raschilla (Girard, Ohio) led off with a single, junior Kyle Tisdale (Uniontown, Ohio) reached on an error and senior Bryan Rudolph (Pickerington, Ohio) laid down a perfect bunt up the third base line to load the bases.

Junior Phil Jaskot (Upper Arlington, Ohio) then lined a double into the corner in right field, clearing the bases. Later in the inning, Jaskot would score on Burson's RBI grounder to give ODU a 5-1 lead.

The Panthers kept pushing in the fifth, as seniors Drew Ryan (Newark, Ohio) and Jossue Delgado (Barinas, Venezuela) singled to start the inning. With both runners in scoring position, Raschilla lifted a fly ball to right field. Ryan did not tag initially, but the Oilers tried to throw out Delgado, who had left the bag at second, and Ryan snuck home on the play as Delgado slid safely back into second.

Delgado himself would then come in to score on Rudolph's base hit to left field to give ODU the six-run cushion.

In the opener, ODU trailed just 2-1 going into the sixth, but a trio of errors proved costly as Findlay would score seven runs in the inning – all of them unearned.

The Oilers had grabbed a 2-0 lead in the first, but the Panthers cut it in half in the third on an RBI basehit by freshman Jimmy Gravett (Grove City, Ohio) to center, scoring Burson.

But ODU couldn't capitalize on other scoring opportunities in the early innings, failing to bring home a run after loading the bases with no outs in the second and also leaving Tisdale at third with no outs in the fourth.

Ohio Dominican, now 17-15 on the season (8-10 GLIAC), will conclude its three-game series with Findlay (9-19, 6-12) with a nine-inning game at 1 p.m. Sunday.

Contact: Scott Miles
miless@ohiodominican.edu