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WHEELING, W.Va. – The Wheeling Jesuit Cardinals picked up their first win in six outings on Good Friday, splitting a double header with Fairmont State with a 4-2 win in game one, followed by a 0-1 loss in an 8-inning pitchers dual.
 
The Cardinals improve to 14-22 (.389) overall on the season, and 14-18 in MEC play heading into their last home regular season game of the year on Saturday.
 
WJU got off to a hot start in game one, scoring more runs in three innings than they have in the last six games combined.
 
The Cardinals were energized as they took the plate in the first inning. Joe San Fellipo scored first for WJU when Michael Adams beat the Fairmont shortstop for a single with an RBI.
 
Tom Connell got things going again for WJU in the 2^nd inning when he struck out swinging, but Tyler Kowalczyk was able to score after advancing from second on a past ball when the FSU catcher overthrew the third basemen allowing Kowalczyk to put the second run on the board for the Cardinals.
 
WJU kept the momentum going in the third when Pat Ammar smacked a double into center field, bringing in San Fellipo to put the Cards up 3-1. Dylan Sunnafrank added another for WJU when he singled to shortstop to bring in Ammar on the RBI, and WJU wound up on top 4-1 where they would stay till the last pitch, winning 4-2.
 
Logan Hudson picked up the win for the Cards, throwing 5.2 innings and only allowing four hits while taking two Ks.
 
Game two was very much a pitchers dual with both teams struggling to get on base as the game went to an 8^th inning knotted at 0.
 
Ben Standiford allowed nine hits throwing over 100 pitches from the mound over 7.2 innings with three strike outs, but the Cardinal defenders kept the Falcons scoreless through seven to send it to extra innings.
 
Standiford gave up two hits in the 8^th, including an RBI single to right field that broke the stalemate and put FSU up 1-0, where the game would finish.
 
WJU and Fairmont State will play another double header on Saturday starting at 1:00. It's the final WJU home game of the season, and the Cardinals will honor their senior class with a jersey presentation between games.