PORT CHARLOTTE, Fla.—The College of Wooster scored at least one run in each of the first six innings and withstood an 11-run Babson College comeback to record a 15-13 victory Sunday afternoon in the Snowbird Baseball Classic at Centennial Park Field 9.

With the loss, Babson has lost three of four games on the Florida trip and slides to 2-5 overall while Wooster improves to 2-1 on the young season.

Junior Brant Savage (Charlton, Mass.) and first-years Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) and Chris Basile (Miami Beach, Fla.) all homered to pace the 21-hit Beaver attack. Graduate student Ryan Noone (Belmont, Mass.) had four hits, including three doubles, and knocked in two, Hvozdovic had three hits and an RBI, and Savage, Basile and first-year Cole Collins (Libertyville, Ill.) all had two hits and two RBI in the loss.

Junior Ike Kiely (Falmouth, Maine) also had two hits, including a double and an RBI, senior Michael O'Brien (Medford, Mass.) drove in two runs, and first-year Zander Teator (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) had two hits and a run scored.

Seniors Dane Camphausen (McLean, Va.) and Dean Brown (Kensington, Md.) belted home runs and knocked in four runs apiece for the Fighting Scots. Camphausen also cracked two doubles, sophomore Nick Pelt (Perrysburg, Ohio) had two hits and three RBI, junior Eli Westrick (Ashland, Ore.) had three hits and two RBI, first-year Ryan Kramer (Chicago, Ill.) had three hits, and junior Grant Mitchell (Avon, Ohio) had a double and a triple in the victory.

Each team used five pitchers in the game. Senior Ryan Sullivan (Amesbury, Mass.) started and went five innings to record the win for Wooster, allowing four runs and striking out three, and senior Christian Johnston (Sewickley, Pa.) got the final three outs in the ninth inning for his first save. For Babson, senior Adam Smith (Allentown, Pa.) pitched two scoreless innings of relief in the seventh and eighth innings and junior Jimmy Weick (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.) allowed just one run in the ninth.

Up 3-2 after two innings, Wooster exploded for five runs in the third inning and four in the fourth to open up a 12-2 lead. Brown hit a grand slam to highlight the third inning rally, and Camphausen, Pett and first-year Colin Leslie (Chicago, Ill.) all had RBI hits in the fourth. Mitchell tripled and scored on a sac fly in the fifth to push the margin to 13-2 halfway through the game.

Babson started the comeback in the last of the fifth when Hvozdovic homered and Kiely cracked an RBI double. Savage, who had homered in the first inning, hit an RBI double in the sixth before Basile smashed his first career home run in the seventh.

The Beavers pulled to within 14-10 with four runs in the bottom of the eighth, as Noone had an RBI double and Collins capped the rally with a two-run double. The Green and White nearly pulled off the comeback with three more in the bottom of the ninth as Noone had an RBI double, O'Brien contributed an RBI single and Basile brought home a run on a fielder's choice, bringing the tying run to the plate, but Johnston retired the final two batters to seal the win for the Fighting Scots.

The Beavers will have Monday off and return to action on Tuesday at 2 p.m. against No. 22 North Central (Ill.). Wooster will take on North Central on Monday at 11 a.m.

GAME NOTES
• Wooster takes a 2-1 lead over Babson in the all-time series which started in 2022.
• Babson's 13 runs were the most in a loss since a 24-16 setback to Fitchburg State on March 28, 2003.
• Cook (.370) has hit safely in all seven games for Babson this season with a team-high 10 hits and eight RBI.
• Savage is 6-for-17 in four games in Florida with two doubles and two home runs, and Hvozdovic has five hits in his last 10 at bats with a double, two home runs and five RBI.