UNIVERSITY CENTER -- Saginaw Valley State University capped a record-setting weekend by sweeping Gannon University Sunday to wrap up the GLIAC baseball championship.
     Coach Walt Head picked up his 500th victory at SVSU with a 7-3 win in the first game and was doused with the water cooler after the 10-4 win in the nightcap sealed the Cardinals' first league title since 1995. Head has turned in a 501-371-5 record in 18 seasons.
     The win pushed SVSU's season record to 38-9-1 overall, matching the school victory mark set in 1986 and 1994. The Cardinals finish the regular season with a 23-5-1 GLIAC mark, the most league wins in school history.
     Senior Kraig Enders (Sanford/Sanford-Meridian) finished his impressive weekend with five hits in seven trips to the plate, and knocked in three runs to break the season record with 56. He had four doubles and scored four runs.
     Sophomore Chris Ebright (Ithaca) also had a big day, with two singles, a double and his fourth homer of the season, and knocked in six runs. Senior Joel Dohm (Owosso) had three hits including his 19th double of the season, one shy of the school record. Senior Josh Miller (Whitby, Ontario) hit his seventh homer of the season and 16th of his career, tying for 10th on the all-time list.
     Junior Jason Valenzuela (Ontario, CA) had two doubles and a single to shatter the season hits record with 79 this year.
     Freshman right-hander Scott Corby (London, Ontario) worked five innings in the first game to raise his record to 6-1. In making his season record-tying 12th start, he allowed four hits, two unearned runs and two walks, while striking out four.
     Junior righty Ruben Alvarado (Nuevo, CA) pitched the final two innings, allowing a run on two hits.
     Sophomore right-hander Andy Scott (Bay City/Western) improved to 5-3 with the win in the nightcap. He gave up six hits, two runs (one earned) and three walks, while striking out six in five innings.
     Freshman Mike McGinnis (Monroe) pitched a scoreless sixth inning and senior Jeff Kimsel (Oscoda) allowed two runs on three hits in the seventh.
     Matt Mack (Vestal, NY), a senior right-hander, took the first game loss, falling to 2-10. He allowed 10 hits and two walks, all seven runs, and struck out two. Joe Oakman (Granville, NY), a junior righty, dropped to 0-8 with the loss in the nightcap, yielding seven runs on six hits and three walks, while fanning one in two innings.
     Gannon closed the season with a 30-game losing streak, finishing with a 4-44 overall record and a 1-31 GLIAC mark.
The Cardinals expect to receive their first-ever NCAA Division II regional playoff invitation tonight.

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