ATLANTA—Four no-hit innings from freshman Paul Gaeta followed five shutout innings from senior Colby James, and Oglethorpe's baseball team won the rubber game of a three-game series against Fontbonne 8-0 Saturday afternoon at Hermance Stadium.

The Stormy Petrels improved to 3-1 with the win.

It was a close affair with much on the line midway through the eighth inning until Oglethorpe ran away with it with six runs in the bottom of the eighth. The Petrels led 2-0 entering the inning, which proved to be all the scoring they would need, but Cooper Krause doubled the lead five pitches into the inning with a first-pitch dinger over the left-field fence, scoring Jonathan Cruz.

That made it 4-0, but the Petrels were hardly finished. Sam Mills, who had a big homer Friday night, followed by drawing a walk, then Blair Barnes, another homer-ee Friday, earned first base with a hit-by-pitch. Mason Pearcy then singled to load the bases, and Drew Jabaley followed with a two-RBI single up the middle.

This rounded out the scoring as Gaeta sat down Fontbonne in order in the ninth, striking out his last two.

Game Notes

• Oglethorpe got on the board first in the fourth inning on a Pearcy sacrifice fly that scored Krause. Barnes hit a single to right-center in the sixth to make it 2-0.
• Krause went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI's in the finale. Pearcy went 2-for-3.
• Mills went 1-for-2, drew two walks and scored two runs.
• James picked up the win to move to 1-0 with a line of five innings, three hits, no runs, two walks and three strikeouts. He faced four over the minimum.
• Gaeta earned the three-inning save with a line of four innings, no hits, no runs, one walk and six strikeouts. He faced the minimum as his walk in the sixth was erased by a double play.
• Gaeta retired his last 10 batters faced.

Series Notes

• Pearcy batted .429 for the series, going 3-for-7. Krause went 5-for-12 with a homer, a double and five runs scored.
• The Stormy Petrels hit three home runs across the three games, coming off the bats of Krause, Barnes and Mills.
• James, Dylan Quintilio and Gaeta combined for 14 innings of work across the series, none of them allowing a run to come across the plate.
• Will Marconi struck out eight in 4.1 innings of work to lead the Petrel pitching staff for the series. Gaeta's six punchouts followed.

Up Next

Oglethorpe heads to LaGrange Tuesday at 6 p.m. LaGrange received votes in the preseason NCAA Division III top-25 poll.