By RICK PETERSON
Levi Risenhoover had a big day, including a home run and a double, in Washburn's 9-3 win over Arkansas-Fort Smith Thursday. [File photo/TSN]After Kai Bennett delivered a scoreless first inning on the mound, Washburn (14-23 overall, 10-13 MIAA) got on the board early.
With two outs Jack Borgmann doubled and was brought home on a two-run homer to left field by Levi Risenhoover.
The Ichabods got two runners on in the second and after two wild pitches another run came around to score to make it 3-0.
The Ichabods continued to score with back-to-back walks to start the third.
Risenhoover laced a double into left-center to score both.
Easton Wasinger hit a sacrifice fly to bring Risenhoover home and make it a 6-0 game.
The Lions (4-31, 3-23) got on the board in the fourth inning with three hits to score two runs.
The score stayed that way into the seventh inning when Washburn loaded the bases with no outs on a single by Risenhoover and two walks. Wasinger slashed a single into right field to score two runs. Another scored on an RBI grounder by Eli Dean to go up 9-2.
Fidel Hatch took over in the eighth inning and recorded two outs before the game went into a 45-minute rain delay. He finished off the clean inning to maintain the six-run lead and finished off the game with a clean ninth inning to secure the victory.
Washburn led 11-7 in hits while also working six walks and allowing just two. The only error of the game was committed by Arkansas-Fort Smith.
Bennett earned the pitching win, throwing seven innings with eight strikeouts and just two earned runs. Hatch struck out three in his two innings of work.
Risenhoover went 3-4 at the plate, falling a triple short of the cycle while driving in four and scoring three runs. Borgmann went 2-3 with two walks and scored three runs and Wasinger was 2-2 with three RBI and a walk.
