MYRTLE BEACH (SC)--- The Delaware Valley baseball team scored runs in each of the first seven innings and had 20 hits, as they moved to 4-3 on the season with a 15-3 win over Clark Summit.
Every Aggies in the starting lineup and 14 players in total collected a hit in the game.
Sophomore starting pitcher John Slover picked up his first career win on the mound, firing seven innings while allowing two runs (one earned). He scattered nine hits with no walks and three strikeouts.
Jonathan Drews brought home the first run with a sacrifice fly in the top of the first to make it 1-0.
In the top of the third, Brendon Hoagland drove a two-run homerun over the right center field wall, the second long ball of his career, as the Aggies extended their lead to 3-0.
DelVal plated two more runs in the third when Jimmy Kelly scored on wild pitch and Hank Bielen drove in a run with a single to center to grow the lead to 5-0.
Three more runs came home in the fourth with an RBI double by Gage Amrbuster, an RBI single by Shawne Eldridge an a Jimmy Kelly RBI single, giving the Aggies an 8-0 advantage.
Clarks Summit (0-7) got on the board with an RBI groundout in the bottom of the frame.
In the top of the fifth, senior Timmy Lallis crushed his first career homerun to right field, a two-run shot, extending the lead to 10-1.
The bats stayed hot in the sixth, as the Aggies kept the hits coming and scored four more runs. Jared Sterner started the scoring off with an RBI double to right field. Tyler Mellinger then stepped up and ripped a two-run triple in the right center gap to score Bobby Bright and Sterner. James Miskanic capped off the inning with an RBI single to center to bring home Mellinger.
Blake Ramos finished up the scoring for the Aggies with a sacrifice fly to left in the seventh, making it 15-1.
The Defenders plated a run in the seventh and in the eighth for the game's final runs.
Tyler Mellinger and Jimmy Kelly led the way for the Aggies, as Mellinger went 3-for-5 with a triple, double, three runs scored and two RBIs and Kelly went 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI.
Timmy Lallis went 2-for-5 with two runs scored and a two-run homerun.
Jared Sterner was the fourth Aggie with multiple hits, finished 2-for-3 with a double, a run scored and an RBI.
DelVal will completed their spring break trip in Myrtle Beach tomorrow against Hilbert at 9 a.m.
