Box Score (Clearwater, FL) Brook Clark (Jr., Canton, OH/McKinley) drove in five runs with a grand slam and double, and Joe Tann (Sr., Canton, OH/Central Catholic) pitched five innings to improve to 2-0 in Walsh's (5-4) 14-6 win over Mansfield College (0-1). Game two of the scheduled double header was rained out in the bottom of the second inning of a scoreless game.
Mansfield scored twice in in the first inning and led 2-0 when Walsh cut the lead to 2-1 on a Joey Beals (R-Fr., Canton, OH/Perry) sacrifice fly in the third inning.
Walsh took the lead with a six-run fourth inning, and put the game away with a five-run sixth. Clark doubled in Andrew Stalnaker (So., Canton, OH/Jackson) to tie the game in the fourth, and then Jason McPeek (Jr., Stow, OH/Munroe Falls) slapped a two-run double to left to give Walsh a 4-2 lead. Stalnaker came to the plate a second time in the inning and singled to drive in two more runs.
Johnny Knight IV (So., Jeffrerson, OH/Area) hit a solo homer to right in the fifth inning, and Beals singled to score Clark to give Walsh an 8-3 lead.
Mansfield scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth on a three-run homer from Anthony Renz to cut the Walsh lead to 8-5.
Walsh put the game away in the top of the sixth on Clark's grand slam homerun to left.
Walsh banged out 14 hits. Knight was 3-3 with three runs scored and two RBI. Beals, McPeek, Stalnaker, Clark and Jordan Shank (Sr., Canton, OH/GlenOak) all had two hits.