Charleston, W. Va – Charleston Baseball took both ends of a doubleheader on Friday over the visiting West Virginia Wesleyan Bobcats. The pitching staff allowed just two earned runs and ace Ethan Soderna got his first complete game victory on the mound in game one.
 
Game One: Charleston 20, Wesleyan 2
 
Soderna, a graduate student out of Chicago, Illinois got the nod on the hill in game one and was dominant. He struck out four in the complete game victory while allowing eight hits, two earned, with only one walk.
 
The offense delivered more than enough firepower in the opener as they scored 20 runs and pounded out 17 hits and walked five times. In total, Charleston hitters left just four men stranded the entire game.
 
The Golden Eagles plated six runs in the first. RBI came from Tyler Dellerman, Brayden McCallister, Clay Hale, AJ Karosas, and Andre Martinez. Both Dellerman and Hale had doubles in the inning.
 
Martinez knocked in another in the second to make it 7-0 after two innings. The Bobcats responded in the next inning with their only two runs of the double header as Eddie Rueda hit a solo shot and Sam Ingram knocked in one with a single.
 
Karosas hit the first of five Golden Eagle homers in the third, his first in the Maroon and Gold. He was followed a few batters later by Dellerman who cracked his 14^th long ball of the season to run the score to 12-2 after three.
 
Hale joined the party in the fourth with a solo shot to right and Drew Beckner followed him the very next at bat with a solo shot of his own. It would be the second time this season that those two would hit back-to-back home runs.
 
Charleston scored five more in the fifth. Beckner hit his second home run of the game in the frame, a three run shot that brought the score to 19-2.
 
Ty Foree capped the scoring in the seventh with a sacrifice fly that made it 20-2.
 
Dellerman was a perfect 3 for 3 in game one. He tallied two doubles, a home run, four RBI, three runs and a walk.
 
Kyle West continued his phenomenal season going 3 for 3 with a double and two runs scored. Beckner ended the game with two hits, both home runs, and four RBI.
 
Hale was 2 for 2 with a home run, a double, two walks, and four runs.
 
Game Two: Charleston 5, Wesleyan 0
 
After the explosive start in game one Charleston cooled down in the second game of the series. However, the pitching staff combined for a shutout while only allowing six hits.
 
Cole Peschl got his second start of the season in game two. The sophomore right hander impressed as he struck out nine Bobcats over 5.0 innings without allowing run en route to his fifth victory on the mound.
 
Tad Dean earned his first save of the season after tossing two scoreless innings in relief wtith only one hit allowed.
 
The offense struggled in game two but got on the board in the first inning thanks to a Martinez two-RBI single. Martinez struck again in the third plating West from third base on an infield single that snuck past the pitcher to make it 3-0. He ended game two with three hits, three RBI and a run.
 
Carter Rust added some insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth. The freshman hit his first collegiate home run, a two-run shot that gave Charleston a 5-0 lead.
 
Klaserner, Dellerman, Karosas, Adkins, and Rust all had one hits in the game.