Dukes Blank Titans, Win Series Saturday

Saturday, March 16

Fullerton, Calif.

9 p.m. ET

James Madison University

14-5

Cal State Fullerton

7-9

James Madison

Cal State Fullerton

3/17/2019 12:30:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

FULLERTON, Calif. – JMU baseball becomes the first team to shutout Cal State Fullerton at home in back-to-back games with a 2-0 victory on Saturday night. The Dukes took the series from the Titans, behind a strong performance by Nick Stewart. Stewart improved to 2-2 on the season and pitched 5.0 innings of four-hit shutout baseball. Brett Ayer came on in relief in the sixth pitching 3.0 innings of one hit ball. Nick Robertson picked up his fifth save of the season and struck out two of the three batters he faced.

Trevon Dabney has scored all three runs that the Dukes have put on the board this weekend, including the two tonight. Dabney singled to lead off the game and moved to third on an error by the second basemen and a groundout by Michael Morgan. Harry Brown grounded out to short to score Dabney and give JMU a 1-0 lead. Dabney would add to the scoring with his second homerun of the season, blasting one over the left field scoreboard in the sixth.

GAME FACTS
- JMU becomes the first team to shutout Cal State Fullerton at home in back-to-back games.
- James Madison shutout Cal State Fullerton in consecutive nights to take the series win over the Titans. The last time the Dukes shutout opponents came a weekend ago when they blanked High Point in games one and two.
- Trevon Dabney went 2-for-3 this evening scoring both runs for the Dukes.
- Nick Stewart picked up his second win of the season improving to 2-2 on the year.
- Nick Robertson collected his fifth save of the season, striking out two in the ninth inning to end the ballgame.
- Cal State Fullerton was shutout in back-to-back games for the first time since May of 2014. The Titans fell 1-0 and 5-0 to Long Beach State that weekend.

SCORING SUMMARY
Top 1^st| JMU 1 – CSF 0 | Harry Brown grounds out to short allowing Trevon Dabney to score the first run of the ballgame.
Top 6^th| JMU 2 – CSF 0 | Trevon Dabney crushes one over the left field wall to increase the Dukes lead to 2-0.

WHAT COACH IKE HAD TO SAY
"Another great performance by our pitching staff today. Nick Stewart was dialed in and when he got into trouble he was able to calm himself and get out the outs we needed. It was good to see Brett back on the mound and I thought once he calmed himself he was able to get back to the Brett of old. Tre has been seeing the ball great lately and has really grown to benefit from hitting leadoff. Another great team win and we will look for the sweep tomorrow afternoon."

UP NEXT
JMU will go for the sweep tomorrow afternoon when they face off against Cal State Fullerton at 4:00 p.m. EST.