Power on full display as 11 ACU homers leave Crutcher Scott

ABILENE, Texas – The ACU baseball team picked up one of the most dominating wins in program history on Saturday night, defeating Marist 23-1 behind 11 home runs and a pitching staff that allowed just two base hits. The Purple and White have been unwelcoming hosts as of late, outscoring opponents 64-10 over their last five games at Crutcher Scott Field. 
 
HOW IT HAPPENED: 

• ACU starting pitcher Breck Eichelberger retired the side on three straight groundouts in the top of the first, and his day got a lot easier once he returned to the dugout. 
• Leadoff man Mitchell Dickson teed off on the second pitch he saw in the home half, and Bash Randle followed with a solo shot of his own to make it 2-0. Hunter Gieser crushed a mammoth two-run homer later in the inning, marking ACU's longest home run in the Trackman era. 
• Alexei Cazarin began the second with yet another big fly, and four batters later, Tanner Tweedt hit an inside-the-park home run off the wall in left to make it a 7-0 game. 
• ACU only scored once in the third, doing so off Grayson Tatrow's opposite field solo shot. 
• Marist plated their lone run of the day in the fourth when an RBI groundout off the bat of Gavin Norieg cut the Red Foxes' deficit to 8-1. 
• The Wildcat bats never cooled off, as a six-run bottom of the fifth was followed by nine more runs over the final three innings. 

 
STAT PACK:

• Eichelberger picked up his second win of the year behind the huge amount of run support, fanning four hitters and allowing just two hits over five innings of work. 
• The Wildcat bullpen was tremendous on Saturday, as Sam Berberich, Sam Grace, Zach Smith and Cinoon Bak each tossed a hitless inning to keep Marist hitters off balance. 
• Tatrow and Tweedt combined for 11 hits and 11 RBI on the day, while 13 different Wildcats recorded a base hit. 

 
BEYOND THE BOX SCORE:

• ACU's 11 home runs are a program record, completely obliterating the previous record of six. The most home runs ever hit by a team in an NCAA game was 14, done by Georgia Southern in 2008. 
• The 11 Wildcat dingers on Saturday traveled more than 4,000 feet, and the Purple and White are a third of their way to 2021's total just 10 games into the 2022 season. 
• ACU's last game with at least 20 runs came exactly one year ago to the day, when the Wildcats defeated Arkansas State 26-3 at Crutcher Scott Field. 

 
UP NEXT: 

• The Wildcats and Red Foxes are back in action on Sunday, when ACU will look for their second consecutive series sweep. First pitch is slated for 11:00 a.m. from Crutcher Scott Field.