AVON, Ohio – It took the Notre Dame College baseball team six innings to get its offense rolling, but once the team hit its stride the Falcons took off. NDC split its doubleheader with West Virginia State, but ended things on a high note.
 
The Falcons dropped game one 6-3 after facing WVSU pitcher Jacob Bradley, who allowed no earned runs in seven innings of play. Notre Dame scored all three of its runs in the sixth inning after Joseph Paskell and Nick Farrell hit a pair of RBIs.
 
The momentum from that sixth-inning showing carried over to the second game, resulting in a 7-4 win for NDC. The Falcons recorded 12 hits and seven RBIs as six different players drove in a run.
 
Notre Dame scored at least one run in the second, third, fourth and fifth innings with a five-run spree highlighted in the third and fourth after WVSU started off with a 3-1 lead.
 
Rick Phillips helps propel things in the third and fourth innings with RBI doubles in both. Phillips was the third straight in a trio of extra-base hits started by Lukas Thompson and Zach Santoro.
 
Thompson and Santoro, NDC's first two at bats in both games, each tallied five hits on the day. Both Thompson and Santoro drove in one runner each while scoring a combined five runs.
 
On the mound, Chris Murphy pitched a complete game to come away with his first win of 2019. He struck out four batters.
 
Notre Dame will play at home again tomorrow, March 17, against Charleston at 1 and 3 p.m.