FOND DU LAC, Wis.- The Ripon College baseball team swept a midweek road non-conference doubleheader against Marian University late this afternoon. The Red Hawks took game one 10-4 and came back to win game two 6-4 after trailing, 2-1. With the wins, Ripon moves to 19-13 on the year while Marian falls to 14-17 on the season.

Kyler Hickman finished the day going 4-for-7 with six RBIs, three runs scored, and two home runs. This was his first multi-home run game of his collegiate career and his tenth game this season with two or more RBIs.

The Red Hawks close out this six-game road trip this weekend when they travel to Grinnell, Iowa to face conference foe Grinnell College in a three-game series that starts on Saturday with a doubleheader. First pitch of game one is slated for noon.

Game 1: Ripon 10, Marian 4 – 7 innings

Ripon took an early lead when it plated five runs on five hits to go up 5-0 after the top of the first. Cormac Madigan got things going when he singled to center and then stole second. He later moved to third following Cam Stampfl's strikeout. With one out the Sabres were able to get Brock Warren to go down swinging for the second out of the inning. Hickman kept the inning going as he parked a two-run home run over the left field wall to put Ripon up, 2-0.

Back-to-back singles from Nick Tenny and Remington Cox kept the inning alive for Ripon and put runners on first and second. Michael Sheehy's RBI single to right scored Tenny to make it 3-0 while sending Cox to third. Sheehy moved up 90 feet when Brady Price was plunked to load the bases. Kabel Burns decided to get in on the action when he was hit by the pitch to score Cox pushing the score to 4-0 and keeping the bases loaded. With the bases loaded the Red Hawks batted around when Madigan came up for the second time and took one for the team as he was the third straight Red Hawk to be hit by a pitch and push Sheehy across the plate to make it, 5-0 before a flyout ended the inning.

Marian got one of the five runs back in the bottom of the first to make it 5-1 and then plated two more in the bottom of the second to make it a two-run game.

The Red Hawks made sure to keep their lead as they scored three runs in the fourth and two in the sixth to make it, 10-3.

The Sabres were able to add a run in the bottom of the seventh but nothing more as Ripon went on to the 10-4 win.

Starter Robbie Roguszka picked up his third win (3-1) of the season. He scattered eight over the course of four innings of work allowing three runs (all earned) while striking out three.

Game 2: Ripon 6, Marian 4

Trailing 2-1 going into the top of the fifth the Red Hawks were able to grab its first lead of the game as they pushed two runs across to make it 3-2 off of Hickman's second two-run home run of the day, but the lead didn't last long. Marian was able to tie the game up in its half of the inning.

Following a Marian pitching change in the top of the sixth, Cox walked to open the inning before moving to second off of Alex Pankratz's single through the right side. Pinch hitter Mickey Babjak reached first on a fielding error by the pitcher off his sacrifice bunt to load the bases. He later was lifted for pinch runner Mason Schoenke. Each runner was able to move up 90 feet off a Marian balk, which allowed Cox to score and give Ripon a 4-3 lead. Flowing a strikeout for the first out, Madigan walked on a wild pitch that allowed Pankratz to score to make it 5-3 and send Shoenke to third. Stampfl picked up his 23^rd RBI of the season when his ground out to first allowed Schoenke to score and make it 6-4 before a flyout to right ended the inning.

The Sabres were able to get one of the runs back in the bottom of the sixth to make it 6-4 before Ripon relievers Dallan Lopez, Rex Bayer, and Brock Turkington pitched three scoreless innings allowing a hit and four walks. Turkington picked up his fifth save of the season while fellow reliever Orion Rieden earned his first win (1-0) of the season.