Meridians Baseball

Tyler Fugate struck out the final five batters he faced, sealing No. 4 ranked College of Wooster’s 4-3 win at No. 8 Marietta College in the regional rivals’ lone regular season meeting, which took place Thursday night (4/8) at Don Schaly Stadium in Marietta, Ohio.

It marked a rematch of the finals from last season’s NCAA Div. III Baseball Championships Mideast Regional, also a one-run victory (5-4) for the Fighting Scots.

Fugate had entered in the sixth, and after escaping out of a bases-loaded jam that frame, Marietta got to him during the eighth.   The Pioneers utilized a pair of singles, sandwiched around a throwing error, to pull within one (4-3) and then moved a runner into scoring position with one out.   The junior right-hander rose to the occasion, striking out the next two to get out of the eighth and all three in the ninth.

Overall, Fugate struck out nine in just four innings of work and the lone run he allowed was unearned, as he collected his third save.