GREENSBORO, N.C. (3/21/09) - Kyle Wooden's two-run double in the sixth broke a 6-6 tie and helped Guilford College sweep Saturday's Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) doubleheader with visiting Hampden-Sydney College with a 9-6 game-two victory. Alex Starbuck drew a bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Guilford a 5-4 win in the opener. Junior reliever Michael Blocher (3-0) won both decisions in relief for the Quakers (14-6-1, 3-1 ODAC), who have won four straight.

In the opener, the teams traded two runs in the first and another in the third, which sent the game to the seventh and final frame tied at 3-3. Guilford left the bases loaded in the home seventh to force extra innings. Hall Toledano greeted Blocher (left), who took over for starter Adam Hart, with a two-out double to left center to give Hampden-Sydney (8-11, 3-4 ODAC) a 5-4 lead.  

The Quakers loaded up the bases in the bottom of the eighth on two walks sandwiched around an error and tied the game at 4-4 on Joe John's RBI single to right field. Starbuck worked a bases-loaded walk off of reliever Kevin VanFossen for the Quakers' win.

In game two, Hampden-Sydney scored two unearned runs in the top of the eighth inning to tie the game at 6-6. After Evan Rogers reached on a leadoff double, the Tigers took advantage of a walk and two Quakers' errors to tie the game.  Blocher entered with two out in the eighth and the go-ahead runner on third, but struck out A.J. Prill to end the inning.

In the bottom of the eighth, John and Drew Gurkin reached on singles, setting the stage for Wooden, whose two-run double off the top of the left-field fence broke the tie and gave Guilford the lead. Travis Starbuck pinch-ran for Wooden and came around to score on Drew Ward's single for a 9-6 Guilford lead.

After allowing a leadoff single to Zach Harrelson in the ninth, Blocher retired the next three batters for his team leading third win of the season.

John, Wooden and John Goodwin all had three hits in the Quakers' 15-hit effort. Wooden finished with three RBI for his team-leading 10th multiple-RBI game. Ward went 2-5 with two RBI and extended his hitting streak to a season-high 11 games.

Harrelson had three of the Tigers' nine hits and an RBI.

Guilford visits league-rival Emory & Henry Sunday (3/22) in a doubleheader rescheduled from Feb. 27.