Jye Lanphere had four hits and four RBI in Yotes DH sweep
CALDWELL, Idaho - The College of Idaho baseball team ran its home record to 7-0 on the season, sweeping the first two games of a three-game series with Whitworth University, winning 11-2 and 3-2 at Wolfe Field.
With the victories, the Coyotes (9-2) have now won eight-games in a row.
In the opener, Ben Rosen tossed six innings of two-hit ball and the Yotes took advantage of five errors by the Pirates (1-8) to earn the victory. A first inning error by the Bucs prolonged the frame, with Izaac Garsez roping a two-run single and Jye Lanphere adding an RBI knock to make it 3-0. A Whitworth error in the fourth allowed another run to score, with Lanphere blowing the game open with a three-run homer in the fifth to make it 7-0. Jesse Dodd capped the scoring for the Yotes with a bases-clearing triple in the sixth.
The Pirates averted the shutout in the seventh, as Marlowe Peter ripped a two-run double.
Lanphere and Dan Harrington each had three hits for the Coyotes, while J.R. Jarrell had two hits for the Bucs.
Game 2 was a pitchers' duel throughout - as the Pirates got to C of I starter Jacob Coats in the third on a Landon Scott RBI single. The Yotes would come right back, and Brett Dvorak scored on a Brett Ward fielders' choice to tie the score, but the Bucs threw out the go-ahead run at home plate after a Lanphere single. An inning later, John Rausch reached on a two-out walk, stole second, and scored on a Nathan Johnson single, making it 2-1.
It would stay that way to the seventh, when Rosen led off the inning with an infield single. Garsez, the pinch runner, moved to third on a pinch hit single from Jordan Lanman. After Lanman stole second, Ray Santiago lifted a sacrifice fly to right, tying the game, with Lanman taking third. Jared Arehart followed with a walk-off single through the left side, giving the Yotes the sweep.
Levi Mitchum, making his Yotes debut, pitched a scoreless seventh to earn the win, while Coats went six innings of four-hit ball, working around two walks and four hit batters, in a no decision. Liam O'Brien kept the Coyotes off-balance, allowing just five hits through six innings, striking out five, before the tumultuous seventh.
No C of I player had a multi-hit game, while Scott went 2-for-2 with a walk for Whitworth.
The series finale is tomorrow with a Noon start time.