The Middlebury baseball team scored in six different innings, hit four home runs and limited Union to just one run on three hits during a 14-1 victory on Wednesday. With the triumph, the Panthers have been victorious in eight of their last nine contests and improve to 11-4 overall. 
 
HIGHLIGHTS

• Middlebury struck with a single run in its initial at-bat. John Collins walked, moved to second on a ball in the dirt and scored on a double off the left-field wall by Kyle McCausland.
• The Panthers plated two runs an inning later. Chris Borter lifted his first home run of the season just inside the right-field foul pole, while Sammy Smith followed with a base on balls and eventually scored on a single to left from Baker Angstman for a 3-0 edge.
• The visitors tacked on three more in the third, highlighted by a two-run homer to center by Collins which drove in Jack Stolper who reached with a single. McCausland smacked a base hit and raced around to score on a double by Nathan Samii that hit the right-field chalk.
• In the fourth, Angtsman led off with a triple to right and quickly touched home on a two-run homer by Alec Ritch to right to push the score to 8-0.
• Ritch started the sixth with a triple and scurried home on a two-base knock from Stolper. McCausland followed with a single up the middle to bring Stolper around to score for a 10-0 lead. 
• The Panthers pushed four runs across in the eighth, highlighted by a three-run homer by Mitchell Schroeder to center, for a 14-0 advantage.
• The Dutchmen manufactured their run in the home half of the frame. Jack Milone drew a one-out walk and scored on a wild pitch for the final 14-1 score.

NOTES

• The homer by Ritch was the first of the season and the 12th of his career, while his sixth-inning three-base hit was his sixth as a Panther.
• The fourth-inning triple by Angstman was his first in a Middlebury uniform.
• The Panthers recorded 15 hits and tied a season high with 10 walks. Nine of those hits went for extra bases with three doubles, a pair of triples and four homers. 
• Middlebury and Union played for the 85th time on Wednesday in the all-time series that dates back to 1890. The series has been tightly contested, with the Panthers owning a slight 46-38-1 edge.

Middlebury opens NESCAC West play and the home portion of its schedule on Friday with a 4:00 p.m. game against Wesleyan.