Box Score

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Augustana's lineup hammered out 16 hits Thursday and starter Walter White (East Peoria HS, East Peoria, Ill.) picked up his second win of the season as the Vikings improved to 8-3 on the year with a 6-1 win over Haverford at Terry Park. The Fords dropped to 1-5 on the year. Coach Greg Wallace's club is back in action against Mitchell on Friday, March 13 at the Player Development Complex in Fort Myers, Florida.
 
Augustana got on the board in the top of the third on an RBI ground out by junior center fielder Nathan Gray (Rock Island HS, Rock Island, Ill.). Gray's RBI single in the fifth extended the Viking lead to 2-0.
 
White put up goose eggs until the fifth, when a leadoff walk to Thomas Vallaro led to the only Haverford run. George Hatimaya's two-out single to right scored Vollaro to cut the Augustana lead in half. Casey Fox reached on a Viking error, but White fanned Ben Verducci to end the inning and leave runners stranded at second and third.
 
Brandon Jasper's (Central HS, DeWitt, Iowa) one-out triple kick started a two-run Augustana seventh.  Gray followed with an RBI single to right and then stole second. One out later, junior catcher John Swiderski (Geneva HS, Geneva, Ill.) delivered an RBI single to left to put the Vikings up 4-1.
 
One out singles by junior shortstop Alex Fluehr (Harlem HS, Loves Park, Ill.) and Jasper preceded Danny Fifer's (Lincoln-Way West HS, New Lenox, Ill.) two-run double in the eighth as Augustana went up 6-1.
 
White (2-0) pitched into the seventh and fanned his ninth batter of the game before turning it over to reliever Cooper SantAmour (Moline HS, Moline, Ill.). The sophomore right-hander ended the frame with a strikeout of Hatimaya and completed the final two innings without incident.
 
Everyone in the Augustana lineup had at least one hit, led by Jasper's three. Five Vikings had two knocks apiece—Swiderski, Fluehr, senior Kyle Lenihan (Romeoville HS, Romeoville, Ill.), junior Trace Gingerich (Sherrard HS, Sherrard, Ill.) and Gray, who drove in three runs. Jasper and Fluehr each scored twice.