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Sam Wilhelms collects his sixth save in an 8-5 win at Wheaton (Ill.) on April 11

Baseball Comes from Behind to Beat Wheaton (Ill.), 8-5, on April 11

Red Men Play Host to the Thunder in a Saturday Doubleheader

4/11/2014 8:53:00 PM

By: By Steve Marovich, Sports Information Director
Box Score The Carthage College baseball team (11-10, 5-5 College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin) opened a three-game series with CCIW-opponent Wheaton College (Ill., 14-10, 4-6 CCIW) on Friday night, April 11 with a come-from-behind, 8-5 win over the Thunder at Lee Pfund Stadium at Legion Field in Carol Stream, Ill.  The two teams play a Saturday, April 12 doubleheader at Augie Schmidt Field, beginning at 1 p.m.  With the win, the Red Men got over the .500 mark, overall, for the first time this season.
 
In Friday's game, Wheaton broke a scoreless tie in the third inning on a two-home run by Josh Kimmel, his first of the year.  Marc Mantucca got the Red Men on the scoreboard in the fourth with a solo homer, his second of the season.  The Thunder's John Jensen-Johnson scored on a passed ball in the bottom of the fourth.  Johnny Peltz followed with a sacrifice fly, and Wheaton led, 4-1.
 
Nick Schmidlkofer's RBI-single in the top of the fifth cut the lead to 4-2, but Wheaton answered with a fielder's choice-RBI off the bat of Johnson in the bottom half to make it 5-2.  The Red Men used a four-run sixth inning to take a 6-5 lead.  Marc Mantucca doubled in the first run in the inning.  Matt Cmiel followed with an RBI-single.  Andy Jaskolski scored on an infield error, and Cmiel scored on a fielder's choice off the bat of Matt Richer with the go-ahead run.  Carthage added two runs in the ninth for the final, 8-5 margin.  Schmidlkofer doubled in a run in the final frame, and Drew Bailey followed with an RBI-single.
 
Nick Schmidlkofer (Jr., Wind Lake, Wis./Muskego) and Marc Mantucca (Sr., Naperville, Ill./Central) both went two-for-four with two RBI each.  Matt Cmiel (Sr., Naperville, Ill./Central) went two-for-four with one RBI.  Starting pitcher Andrew Arenson (Sr., Naperville, Ill./North, 3-0) was the winner.  Arenson allowed five runs, four earned, on 10 hits and four walks.  Sam Wilhelms  (Sr., Fond du Lac, Wis.) worked a scoreless ninth inning and struck out two to earn his fifth save.  The Carthage season record for saves is six, set by Layne Grissman in 1995 and matched by Brandon Roth in 2002.  Evan Rahn (4-3) took the loss for the Thunder.
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