ABILENE – Abilene Christian split a pair of games with Penn on Saturday, claiming a 10-4 win before falling 7-2.
ACU got the early lead in the opener on a sacrifice fly by
Gino D'Alessio in the first inning.
Wyatt Henseler homered for the Quakers in the fourth inning to tie the game, but ACU responded with two runs in the home half.
Miller Ladusau had a two-run double.
Zandt Payne singled in a run,
Aaron Staehely scored on an errant pickoff move and Payne came home on a wild pitch to make it 6-1 in the fifth.
The final four Wildcat runs came in the seventh on a run-scoring error, sacrifice flies by Payne and Ladusau and an RBI triple by
Reese Borho.
Ladusau finished with four hits and three RBI to lead the Cats with Borho contributing two hits to the 10-hit onslaught.
Iain Campa went five innings and struck out seven to get his second win of the season.
Chandler Benson added three shutout innings.
Nick Meyer struck out three in his inning of work.
Penn used a two-run first and single runs in the third and fifth to build a 4-0 lead in the second game.
Ladusau got ACU on the board in the fifth with an RBI single and D'Alessio added and run-scoring infield single to cut the lead to 4-2.
Ladusau and
DJ Van Atten paced the ACU offense with two hits each.
Brett Lanman was charged with the loss.
The teams finish the four-game set at 1:05 p.m. on Sunday.
