Kyle Koski

Jarrod Mancine

WOOSTER, Ohio – The College of Wooster pounded out four extra-base hits in a four-run first inning and went on to a 10-1 victory over John Carroll University on Tuesday afternoon in the northeast Ohio foes' annual non-conference tussle at a sunny Art Murray Field.

Jarrod Mancine set the tone for Wooster (25-10), leading off the home half of the first with a double into right-center, and with one out, Eddie Reese tripled to the wall in straightaway centerfield for the initial run. Next, Zac Mathie drove an 0-1 pitch to the opposite field, clearing the wall in left for a homer, his first this season. The fourth extra-base hit of the inning was a two-out double that Frank Vance sliced inside the left-field line and Craig Day followed with a sharp single into left to make it 4-0.

That was plenty of offense for Kyle Koski as the Fighting Scots' starting hurler cruised through six shutout innings. The only trouble he ran into was the fourth when John Carroll's (23-13) first two hitters singled, but Koski struck out the next and then induced a double play to end the threat.

The Blue Streaks tallied a run off Wooster's relievers in the top of the seventh, only to see the Scots respond with one in the bottom of the frame as Mathie delivered a two-out single into the left-field corner that plated Mancine, who had singled.

After a 1-2-3 top of the eighth, part of 2.1 scoreless innings from Jon Rothman, Wooster put the game away during the bottom of the inning with five runs. The two big hits came courtesy of Mancine, a two-run double, and Reese, a two-run home run that sailed just beyond the fence in left. It marked Reese's team-leading seventh round-tripper of the year.

Mancine finished with a game-high four hits (4-for-5 with two RBI), Reese with three (3-for-5 with three RBI), and Koski's record bumped up to 6-2.

The Scots will be right back in action Wednesday, as Heidelberg University (19-18) visits Art Murray Field at 4 p.m.