Three College of Wooster baseball pitchers combined to fire a six-hit shutout in Wednesday's 6-0 blanking of Capital University at Art Murray Field.

Wooster, now 21-10, was lights out on the bump for the second straight game, as the Fighting Scots' pitching staff has held the opposition to 11 hits covering the last 18 innings. Sophomore Alex Eusebio scored his first collegiate win with five innings of four-hit shutout baseball before turning the ball over to sophomore James MacMillan. MacMillan allowed one hit during his two blank frames, as did first-year Benjie Sharman.

The Scots' staff was backed up by great normal-looking defense and a few wild plays that were made for outs along the way. In the first, first-year shortstop Noah Lindberg cleaned up a shot up the middle that deflected off sophomore second baseman David Guldin's glove. The carom set up a footrace to the bag for the inning-ending force out, which Lindberg won.

In the fourth, Capital's (15-13) Robby Harrison got caught up between first and second when first-year Owen Sherrill snagged a liner in right and easily had the double up at first. Later, Justin Weaver froze on a pitch, leading to the 10th pickoff victim of Colin Leslie's senior year behind the dish. Elsewhere, the middle infield duo of Guldin and Lindberg tracked down shallow fly balls in the outfield with over-the-shoulder running catches.

Wooster manufactured its first run of the day in the third inning. Junior first baseman Zack Barienbrock ripped a two-out single up the middle and hustled to third when senior designated hitter Ryan Kramer poked a shallow single into center. Kramer was tasked with staying in the rundown long enough to get Barienbrock in from third, and he did so successfully. Kramer was eventually tagged out on the 2-4-6-3-4 rundown, during which Capital nearly had two errors.

A booted ball in left field enabled senior Nathaniel Huxtable to get to second on his fourth-inning single. Lindberg then roped a double to the fence in left to score Huxtable and make it 2-0.

Kramer rode the Art Murray wind tunnel to his fifth homer in the last four games in the fifth. The two-run shot made it 4-0. Sophomore third baseman Maanav Bhatt tacked on a RBI single in the sixth and sophomore pinch runner Aidan Krantz scored on a wild pitch in the eighth.

Kramer went 2-for-3 with two RBI and reached based safely three times. He is now two RBI shy of a top-10 program mark and is a few hits way from becoming the 16th in program history to hit 200. Barienbrock, Bhatt, and Lindberg all finished with two hits.

Bryce Kyees accounted for two of Capital's six hits.

Next, Wooster (4-4 North Coast Athletic Conference) takes on top-ranked Denison University (25-1, 6-0 NCAC) on Saturday, April 18 at Art Murray Field. First pitch of the twin bill is set for noon.