NEWS

Nick Calero with one of his base hits against Brown on Sunday.

DAVIDSON — The Davidson baseball team split Sunday’s doubleheader with Brown, losing 6-4 in the day’s first game and winning 12-5 in the series finale at Wilson Field.

The Wildcats exit the weekend 5-10 overall, while Brown improved to 4-6.

Game 1
Following Friday’s win in the series opener, Brown secured at least a weekend series victory with a 6-4 win in seven innings.

Davidson led 3-2 after three, thanks to a two-RBI double from Michael O’Shaughnessy and an RBI-double from Tyler Douglas.

But the Bears’ go-ahead three-run shot came off the bat of Chase Crawford in the fourth.

An RBI-double from Eli Putnam in the fourth got the Wildcats within a run. Putnam finished 3-for-4, while Douglas and Nick Calero had two hits apiece.

Starter Cooper Cavanaugh pitched the first four innings and struck out six.

Matt Weber took over from there and allowed two hits in the final three frames.

Game 2
Davidson built an eight-run lead and never looked back in the 12-5 victory.

Putnam, Hunter Anderson and Jacob Friend hit home runs to lead the way. Anderson hit his first homer of the year to start a five-run third, and Putnam’s three-run blast to left-center later in the inning made it 8-0. It was his fourth round-tripper of the year, which tied him for the team lead with O’Shaughnessy and Jake Wilhoit.

Friend, who was 4-for-4, hit a two-run shot in the fourth, his second, to make it 12-2.

Friend and Putnam helped the Wildcats get on the board in the second, when Davidson earned four straight hits and scored three runs with two outs. That included Friend’s sky-high pop-up double into the wind at third base.

Putnam finished with five RBIs and had two hits, along with Anderson, Aidan Rice and Jed Howard.

Lefty starter Ryan Feczko earned his first victory of the year, tossing five innings, allowing six hits and two unearned runs and striking out five.