FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Baseball dominates Bethel 20-2 for their first win on Warrior Field this season.

The Warriors scored their first run in the bottom of the second which started with Jacob Alvidrez hitting a single to right field. Jake Ritson then put the ball in play to have runners on first and second with two outs. Both Ritson and Alvidrez stole bases and Alvidrez capitalized on an error to score the first run of the game.

Tech scored two more in the bottom of the third starting with Alex Vydick getting on base and then Parker Bates coming in to pinch run. Bates stole second to put himself into scoring position before Trevor Patterson singled up the middle to score Bates. Patterson then advanced to second on a bunt from Reese Olden before Mike Snyder singled to left field before advancing to second on the fielder's throw to third. Runners were on second and third with one out when Christian De Los Santos stepped up to the plate. De Los Santos hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield that scored Patterson for the Warriors to lead 3-0.

Bethel answered with a solo homerun in the top of fourth to get back within two (3-1) before the Warriors had more offensive action in the bottom of the inning. Alvidrez walked and Ashtin Moxey earned a walk to have runners on first and second with one out. Vydick put the ball in play to advance the runners to second and third with two outs. Patterson stepped up to the plate and doubled to right center to score both Moxey and Alvidrez and give Tech the 5-1 lead after four innings.

In the top of the fifth Bethel scored again to make it 5-2. Tech responded in the bottom of the sixth scoring ten runs. A sacrifice fly by Patterson scored Ritson followed by Yeshua Saint hitting a single up the middle that scored Moxey and ultimately led to the error that scored Bates. The Warriors led 8-2 when Snyder doubled through the left side to score Saint. There were runners on first and third when Micah O'Donnell got his first at bat where he hit Snyder in from third for the Warriors to lead 10-2. The bases were loaded when Moxey singled to the pitcher to score O'Donnell from third before Alex Mitchell earned the walk to score Alvidrez. The inning ended with Patterson hitting a triple to centerfield that scored Ritson, Moxey and Mitchell for the Warriors to lead 15-2 after six.

Another run in the bottom of the seventh gave the Warriors a 16-2 lead and in the bottom of the eighth a double from Jayden Reed started a rally. Reed was on second, Mitchell walked to first and Saint was hit by a pitch to load the bases with two outs. Parker Bates stepped up to the plate and hit a grand slam to score four runs for the Warriors and earn Tech the 20-2 win over Bethel.

Patterson was 3-for-3 at the plate with one run and seven RBIs while Bates was 2-for-2 with four runs and four RBIs. Moxey went 2-for-3 with three runs and one RBI while Ritson went 1-for-3 with two runs. Patterson, Snyder and Reed all recorded doubles in the game while Patterson earned the only triple and Bates the only home run for the Warriors. Jesse Burch earned his first win of his career for Tech pitching three innings with one strikeout.

The Warriors are back in action Friday, March 19^th at 3 p.m. when they host Saint Ambrose for the first of a three game series.