DAVENPORT, Fla. – The Clark University baseball team (4-2) closed spring break with a convincing 10-0 win against Gordon (2-8) on Saturday afternoon from the Northeast Regional Park.

How It Happened

• Junior Maxwell Gitlin took the bump for Clark to close out spring break and tossed a scoreless first and second inning before senior Ethan Belt drove in first-year Nicolo Mainardi with an RBI double to right center to take a 1-0 lead.
• First-year Brayden Hollinrake extended the edge to 2-0 in the bottom of the third with a sacrifice fly to right field to plate junior Billy Sullivan.
• Graduate student Andrea Casabianca belted a homer to left field in the bottom of the fourth to push the edge to 3-0.
• After another inning in which Gitlin retired the side in order, Clark plated three more runs in the bottom of the fifth as first-year Brayden Hollinrake hit a sacrifice fly, senior Connor Rulnick hit an RBI ground out to second base, and Belt singled up the middle to bring in another run and made it a 6-0 game.
• First-year Michael Soares drove in senior Ryan Caulfield in the bottom of the sixth and sophomore Ryan Bonja came around to score off an error to push the advantage to 8-0.
• The Fighting Scots got their first hit of the game with two outs in the top of the seventh before senior Benjamin Spencer came in and struck out the final batter of the inning.
• Belt drove in a pair of runs with a base hit to left field, scoring Soares and Hollinrake as Clark came away with a 10-0 win over Gordon.

Inside the Stats

• Gitlin pitched 6.2 innings, struck out nine batters, and only allowed one hit.
• Belt went 4-5 with a pair of doubles and five RBI's.
• Hollinrake drove in a pair of runs and scored a run.
• Caulfield reached base three times and stole a base.
• Bonja was 2-4 with two runs scored.

What's Next

Clark will return to play on Thursday with a home game against RIC beginning at 3:00 p.m.