Wooster Drops First Two Games in Florida

DAVENPORT, Fla. – The College of Wooster baseball team opened its spring trip in Florida with an 11-6 loss to Ramapo College on Tuesday and dropped Wednesday's contest to Farmingdale State College 6-4.

Wooster (5-9) broke through for its first run against Ramapo (7-4) in the third inning. Junior catcher Nathaniel Huxtable pulled a double down the left field line to bring in senior center fielder Leo Widtmann, who went opposite field on his one-out double. An inning later, first-year second baseman Luke Rizzo's double plated senior right fielder Alex Gerdenich.

Wooster scored its final two runs against Ramapo on Huxtable's seventh-inning sacrifice fly and junior first baseman Ryan Kramer's single to left field.

Defensively, Kramer kept Wooster's deficit at 3-0 in the second inning when he fielded a grounder with runners on the corners and cut down the lead runner at the plate. Huxtable threw out a would-be base stealer in the fourth inning and started an inning-ending pickoff in the seventh.

First-year James MacMillan fired three innings of scoreless relief in the Ramapo game before classmate Carter O'Neill came on and worked a scoreless ninth.

Jake Depetris (1-1) was the winning pitcher for Ramapo. He worked six innings and allowed four runs on six hits. Brandon Tauber had three RBI to lead the Roadrunners' lineup.

All of Wooster's offense came in the second inning against Farmingdale (5-5). Senior left fielder Nick Pett's double stayed inside the right field line, and he moved up to third on a Farmingdale wild pitch before scoring when sophomore designated hitter Jay Hanzie lifted a sacrifice fly out to left. Next, first-year shortstop David Guldin sent a single through the left side of the infield to score Gerdenich. First-year second baseman Maanav Bhatt scored when a Farmingdale pickoff attempt went wide at third base, while Guldin scored the final run of the inning when sophomore Zack Barienbrock blasted an opposite-field single through the right side.

Junior Patrick Wiggins and sophomore Constantine Vernadakis were the scoreless relief pitchers against Farmingdale. They worked a combined three innings of shutout baseball.

Michael Camardi (2-0) was awarded the win following his 2 2/3 innings of one-hit shutout baseball. Chris McGuggart went 3-for-4 to lead Farmingdale's lineup.

Barienbrock went 4-for-9 with two RBI over Wooster's first two games in Florida. Huxtable and Kramer both had two hits and two RBI.

Wooster returns action on Friday, March 21. The Scots are slated to play Ripon College (3-7) at 9 a.m. and University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (4-3) at 1 p.m. The game against Eau Claire was added today.

Photo by Nick Bostic '26