In Tuesday's opener, Wooster ace Michael Houdek picked up his third win of the season with a quality start of two runs allowed over six innings.

WOOSTER, Ohio – Nanak Saran tossed a complete-game shutout and was backed up by 10 runs from The College of Wooster's offense during the nightcap of the Fighting Scots' 8-2, 10-0 sweep of North Coast Athletic Conference East Division foe Kenyon College on Tuesday at Art Murray Field.

Wooster (13-5, 4-2 NCAC East) and Kenyon (16-7, 4-2 NCAC East) are now tied atop the division, and their other doubleheader to be made-up from this past weekend's "snow out" is still to be announced.

Making game two's shutout all the more impressive, Saran, a sophomore right-hander, worked around leadoff base hits in each of the first six innings. During the fourth, he allowed a double to Matt von Roemer and a wild pitch put von Roemer on third with no outs, but he escaped the jam with a grounder to third, strikeout, and another groundout.

In the fifth, Kenyon moved a runner into scoring position (second base) with one out, only to see Saran fan the ensuing two batters to maintain Wooster's 1-0 lead.

The Scots carried that momentum into the bottom of the frame. Joey Gilmore drew a leadoff walk, moved to second on a sacrifice bunt, and went another 90 feet via a groundout to the right side. Then, Jake Fling delivered a sharp RBI single through the right side – Wooster's first hit of the game – and Drew Tornow added an infield single, which was followed by an errant throw, resulting in an unearned run and 3-0 advantage for Wooster.

In the sixth inning, the Scots tacked on an insurance run when Gilmore legged out a two-out double, plating pinch runner Jacob Stuursma.

Wooster broke the game open with a six-run seventh. The inning started with a Kenny Reckart single through the middle and included bunt singles by both Fling and Michael Wielansky, sandwiched around a two-run double by Tornow, as well as a Ryan Ostendorf two-run base knock.

With the 10-run cushion and a relatively-low pitch count, the storyline became Saran's shutout bid. In the eighth, he overcame a two-out walk and single, and in the ninth, a one-out walk was followed by a fly out to left-center and a grounder in the hole that Wielansky made a nice play on to end the game.

Overall, Saran threw 109 pitches, scattering seven hits and walking two while striking out six to improve to 2-2 on the season.

In the opener, Michael Houdek bounced back from solo home runs in the second and third innings en route to upping his record to 3-1. He gave up just two other hits in six innings of work and also struck out six.

Houdek was supported by a seven-run outburst in the third, an inning in which the Scots took advantage of four walks. Gilmore led off with a free pass, then Chandler Dippman perfectly executed a hit-and-run with a single past the shortstop to put runners on the corners. Fling walked to load the bases, Reckart dropped an RBI single into right field, and Wielansky scored two with a well-hit ball through the right side to give Wooster the lead at 3-2.

Back-to-back walks scored another run, and a Tornow grounder produced another tally as the Lords finally got the first out of the inning. Jacob Solomon contributed a two-run single that made it 7-2, and the Scots later added an insurance run in the sixth.

Fling (3-for-7), Reckart (3-for-8), and Wielansky (3-for-8) each produced three-hit days to pace Wooster's attack, while Mikey Arman combined to go 3-for-5 for Kenyon in the two games.

The Scots will return to non-conference play on Thursday when they welcome Baldwin Wallace University (9-15) to Art Murray Field for a 4 p.m. first pitch.