(XENIA, Ohio) - The host Wilmington Quakers sweep the visiting Olivet Comets, keeping the road team winless on the season, while giving the Quakers a 2-0 start to their season, winning game one 9-4 and coming back in game two 11-7.

Luke Chappie gets the win for the Quakers in their season opener, a seven inning affair, pitching four shutout innings, giving up two hits. Dominic Depa goes 3-4 from the plate, with two doubles, scoring three runs and driving in two. Kyle Jennings also went 3-4 at the plate and drove in 2 runs. 

The Quakers built a slow and steady lead across six innings, gaining one run in the first and fourth innings, doubling their total in the fifth and then going for five more in the sixth. The Comets got four in the seventh, but the Quakers large lead, proved plenty to give the Quakers the opening game win.

The second game had a different tone though. Olivet opened the game with the first run when Jack Friesen scored on a Trent Mendenhall wild pitch, but Depa drove in a run and Jay Utterdyke broke through with a triple in the bottom of the inning to give the Quakers a 3-1 lead.

The third inning the Quakers took a 3-2 lead to a 6-2 lead with off an Utterdyke double and a Hayden Koonce single.

The Comets came back in the seventh to tie the game at 6 after Hayden Wibbeler entered for Josh Harbaum. Wibbeler gave up a run on on an error. Harbaum allowed a run by a balk, on an infield single and a sacrifice fly.

But, even as the Quakers entered the eighth inning of the second game, trailing 7-6 following a Blake Hawkins home run off Brad Miller, a never quit attitude permeated the bench, going for five runs in the bottom of the eighth, with an Utterdyke sacrifice fly scoring JP Donelan from third to tie the game.

The Quakers then scored next off a dropped fly ball in left field off Braden Chambers's bat, scoring Max Gildea and Dominic Depa. Avery Battle earned his first RBI, scoring Chambers, to make it 10-7.

The Quakers ended the scoring barrage with a JC Calhoun double scoring Battle to make it 11-7.

Gildea had a 3-4 game for the Quakers at the plate. Avery Battle went 3-5 and Jay Utterdyke went 2-4 with a double, triple and five RBIs.

Mendenhall went five innings in the start, giving up six hits and two runs and four strikeouts. Brad Miller won the game, pitching the final two innings, giving up one eighth inning solo home run.

The Quakers travel to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina for a Spring Break trip, playing seven games over six days, first being a doubleheader against Lesley University at Socastee High School. First pitch will be at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday March 9th.