LANGHORNE, PA – The Cairn Baseball team continued their winning ways after a week of rain, taking the first two games of their conference series with Rosemont in shutout fashion on Saturday, 8-0 in game one and 2-0 in game two.
 
GAME ONE
The Highlanders got going in the scoring column as freshman shortstop Nathan Schurga (Wilmington, DE / Conrad Schools of Science) walked and fifth year second baseman Joe Greenwood doubled, putting a pair of runners in scoring position. Junior outfielder Will Wikner (Gaithersburg, MD / Shenandoah University) dropped in an infield single, scoring Schurga before classmate Dylan Jackson (Levittown, PA / Chestnut Hill College) singled through the right side, scoring Greenwood and Wikner and putting Cairn (12-11 / 7-4 UNITED EAST SKYE DIVISION) ahead 3-0.
 
In the third, Cairn added another as Greenwood drove in fifth year third baseman Sam Spadea (Yardley, PA / Pennsbury). Spadea would pick up an RBI of his own in the fifth, scoring classmate Tyler Fox (Boyertown, PA / West-Mont Christian Academy). The final straw would come in the sixth as Wikner led off with a walk and scored on a sacrifice fly from Fox. Two Highlanders would be hit by a pitch, loading the bases and scoring Jackson. The eighth and final run for Cairn came by wild pitch where Fox scored.
 
Freshman righty Mikey Gutierrez (Cooper City, FL / St. Thomas Aquinas) was lights out, pitching another complete game, allowing a single hit and striking out seven, moving to 4-3 on the season.
 
Fox, Greenwood, and Spadea each had two hits in game one, the later with 2 RBI.
 
GAME TWO
The backend of the doubleheader was tightly contested with Cairn getting ahead 1-0 in the first with Wikner singling and scoring by way of a junior first baseman Tyler Warr (Langhorne, PA / Neshaminy) single. That would be all the offensive action until the fifth when the Highlanders doubled their lead as Bauers drove in Greenwood on a sacrifice fly.
 
Senior right hander Eli Schooley (Horseheads, NY / Horseheads) locked it down on the mound for five innings, earning his third win of the year with five strikeouts. Sophomore reliever Greg Jessup (Tyler, TX / McKinney Christian Academy) shut the door for his first career save, picking up two strikeouts in as many innings of work.
 
The Highlanders will head over to Rosemont for game three on Sunday night before facing off against Centenary on Monday and at Neumann on Tuesday before continuing conference play next weekend against St. Elizabeth.