Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 East Bank, W.Va.---The Wheeling Jesuit baseball team traveled to East Bank, W.Va. to play Davis & Elkins College at East Bank Middle School. The Cardinals split Thursday's twinbill as the Senators claimed game one, 11-4, and the Cardinals bounced back with a 12-4 victory. WJU moved to 6-16 overall and 3-8 in WVIAC play while D&E stands at 10-12 overall and 5-9 in league play.
 
In game one, the two teams battled back-and-forth for the first four innings. D&E opened with a run in the first inning as the lead-off batter recorded a base hit, and the three hitter plated the run with a sacrifice fly out to centerfield.
 
Jesuit answered in the second inning when Robbie Davia singled to left field, and Austin Guy grounded out to the second baseman for a RBI. The Senators established a 2-1 advantage in the third inning on a pair of base hits and a walk, but in the fourth inning, WJU tied the game. Guy worked the count for a walk and a sacrifice bunt by Corey Hull sent Guy to second base. Jordan Medley followed with a bunt for a base hit, creating a first and third situation. Patrick Biega laid own a perfectly placed bunt to score Guy and tie the game at two runs apiece.
 
Davis & Elkins plated two more runs in the fourth inning, and Jesuit followed suit in the top of the fifth when Davia blasted a two-run homerun after Patrick Ammar reached on a D&E fielding error, 4-4.
 
In the bottom of the fifth inning, the Senators surged for five runs and two in the sixth, and WJU couldn't recover. WJU pitcher, Logan Hudson, earned the loss.
 
In game two, the Cardinals established the early lead, plating two runs in the first inning and three runs in the second inning. Jordan Kraus and Cory Wickham opened the game with back-to-back singles and scored on a Davia single and a 6-4-3 double play groundout.

In the second, Nick Briski walked, Biega followed with a single, but was called out at second base when Kraus hit into a fielder's choice and scored Briski. Wickham walked, and Ammar reached on an error by the third baseman to load the bases. Davia lifted the Cardinals to a 5-0 advantage with a two-RBI double to the left centerfield gap.
 
Jesuit added seven runs in the third inning which was highlighted by Ammar's three-run homerun over the left field fence while Kraus and Hull each blasted doubles and Medley and Biega recorded singles. WJU pitcher, Josh Kernik, earned the win.
 
*Pitching stats will be updated when full stats and box scores are available.
 
Wheeling Jesuit will be back in action on Friday, March 29 at the J.B. Chambers I-470 Complex against Alderson-Broaddus College. The 9-inning contest is scheduled for 3 p.m.