Last modified: Saturday, March 14, 2009 1:00 AM EDT

Wheaton wins 5th straight

PHOENIX, AZ. - The 23rd-ranked Wheaton College baseball team continued its winning ways on Friday with a 10-6 victory over No. 5 ranked Johns Hopkins University, the Lyons' fifth straight win.

Wheaton (6-1) used a three-run rally on four hits in the ninth inning to take the victory - sophomore Hadi Raad beling a two-run single and Eric Laliberte having a run-producing sacrifice flyball.

The Lyons chased Hopkins' senior pitcher Chez Angeloni (9-0 last year, the MVP of the NCAA Division III World Series) off the mound after three innings, sending 18 batters to the plate, scoring three runs. Freshman Dan Haugh belted a 400-plus-foot two-run homer.

Foxboro's Jeff Lieneck, Wheaton's catcher, went 4-for-5 with a double, while Laliberte drove in three runs with two hits, Raad had two hits and two RBI and Nick Pecora was on base three times via two walks and a hit.

Wheaton senior hurler Adam Gingras of Woonsocket won his 10th consecutive decision dating back to last spring, limiting Hopkins to one run on four hits through five innings.

A two-out, RBI-single up the middle off the bat of Laliberte in the fifth inning and a Haugh sacrifice fly created a six-run lead for Wheaton.