Wilkes-Barre, Pa. – Two days removed from an 11-10 slugfest that featured 27 total hits, pitching was the name of the game for the Stevens Institute of Technology Saturday as the Ducks swept a MAC Freedom doubleheader at King's, winning 3-0 and 12-0.

David Finch tossed a 103-pitch, 10 strikeout shutout in Game 1 for Stevens (22-13, 11-7) before the Ducks got a bullpen game shutout from a trifecta of relievers in Game 2.

How It Happened (Game 1)
Chip Krese, Jackson Wein, and Adam Barrington provided Finch more than enough run support both in the early going and late stages.

Krese led off the game with a walk, moved to second on a Wein sac bunt, and scored on a Barrington single. In the third, Wein walked, Barrington singled him to third, then scored on a failed pickoff attempt. In the seventh, Krese tripled, then scored two batters later on a Barrington sac fly.

After allowing a leadoff single in the first, Finch showed Arcadia why he was named the conference Pitcher of the Year last year, setting down 11 of 12 through the end of the fourth, yielding just one walk while striking out four.

Finch conceded his first hit since the first with two out in the fifth, but that was merely a blip on the radar, striking out two in each of the final three innings, capping his second complete game and first shutout of the year.

How It Happened (Game 2)
With two out in the first, Barrington's big day continued with a triple, with the first year coming in on a balk. In the second Veer Wadhwani singled, Adam Kobayashi doubled him to third, and Vinnie Stigliano singled him home, staking Herlihy a 2-0 lead.

In the third, Wein singled, took second on a passed ball, and scored on a Barrington single, then in the fourth, a Kobayashi single + advance on passed ball plus a Stigliano double put the Ducks up 4-0.

After a scoreless fifth and sixth, the Ducks broke the game open and then some in the seventh. Stigliano and Dylan Fishbough led off with back-to-back singles, then Krese doubled both home; Quinton Sterling followed with a Krese-scoring single. Each of the next three batters (Barrington, Griffin Zitko, Edward "E.J." Balewitz Jr.) reached without putting the ball in play ahead of Alex Santora, who promptly unloaded the bases with a double to right-center. After Santora moved to third on a fly out, Nate Hill brought him in with a groundout, capping the Ducks eight-run outburst, and the run-rule victory.

On the mound, Connor Herlihy, Connor McLachlan, and Raphael Schneider continued on Finch's dominance from Game 1, with each posting multiple shutout innings. Herlihy worked out of a bases-loaded, two-out threat in the first and a two-on, no-out jam in the third, finishing with four strikeouts, McLachlan stranded two Monarchs in the fifth, and Schneider stranded two runners in both the sixth and seventh.

Inside The Box Score(s)

• Finch's 10 strikeouts in Game 1 were a new career-high, as well as his third straight 7+ strikeout outing
• Krese stretched his hitting streak to 18 games; Sterling went 2-for-2 in Game 2, running his hitting streak to 12 straight
• Barrington finished the three-game series with the Monarchs 6-for-8 (.750) with six RBI; Wadhwani finished the series 5-for-9 (.556) with two runs, two RBI, and two doubles; Stigliano finished the series 5-for-11 (.455) with three RBI
• The Ducks improved to 18-0 against King's since the start of the 2021 season
• As of the end of Game 2, eight Ducks with at least 50 at-bats were hitting .300 for the year, thanks in large part to a 14-game run, during which time they've had at least 10 hits 11 times

Up Next
The Ducks host Saint Joseph's – Long Island in a non-conference contest at Dobbelaar Field at 2:00 on Tuesday afternoon.

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