Box Score
ARNOLD, Md.—Freshman Christian Wolfe (Bel Air, Md./John Carroll) broke a five-game, 0-for-16 hitting slump to lead the Harford baseball team to its 19th straight win with a 8-1 rout of Anne Arundel on the road on Thursday. Wolfe was 3-for-5 on the day with two runs, a double, a home run, a stolen base and five RBI for the Fighting Owls (26-5, 13-3 MDJUCO).
On the mound, sophomore Bo Loar (Fallston, Md./Fallston) (5-0) picked up his fifth win of the season, pitching five scoreless innings while allowing just one hit and striking out six batters, while sophomore Chris Peacher (Abingdon, Md./Harford Tech) earned the save by pitching four innings in relief and giving up one run on four hits and fanning one batter.
Josh Morris and Kyle Gatz each went 2-for-4 to pace the Pioneers (9-17, 2-12 MDJUCO), and Eric Reyes had the only other hit for Anne Arundel, a triple as he went 1-for-3 with a run and a walk. Roberto Mendoza suffered the loss, giving up four runs on seven hits and striking out one in three innings.
Harford took a 1-0 lead in the second off sophomore Mike Krider's (State College, Pa./State College) RBI double and Wolfe blasted a three-run homer in the third, his team-leading seventh of the season, to give the Owls a 4-0 advantage and put the game out of reach for Anne Arundel.
Harford would add single runs in both the fifth and sixth, capitalizing on Pioneer errors in both innings, before Anne Arundel got on the board in the bottom of the seventh with a groundout RBI by Andrew Davies. By then Harford had built a 6-1 lead and tacked on two more in the eighth off Wolfe's two-run RBI single on the way to the 8-1 win.
The Fighting Owls return home on Friday when they start a brutal weekend schedule with Division-III No. 2 Gloucester at 6:00 p.m. before hosting Division-II No. 5 and conference-leading Frederick for a doubleheader on Saturday at 12:00 p.m.
