Mar 7, 2007 By The 2 min read

Ryan Lavrusky smacked four hits in the first game and drove in the winning run in the second game as Waynesburg College picked up its first baseball victories of the season with a doubleheader sweep over Martin Luther College (Minn.) on Tuesday. The Yellow Jackets (2-4) won the first game 9-2 and the second game 3-2.

“Coming off two tough losses, it was good today to come back and get two hard-fought wins,” Waynesburg head coach Ron Nopwasky said.

The games were played in Orlando, Fla., at the Wild World of Sports in Disney complex, which includes the Atlanta Braves’ spring training practice fields.

Anthony Taylor allowed both runs on four hits in five innings to earn the win in the opener.

Lavrusky drove in two runs with a triple and three singles, and Brendan Steele had three hits for the Yellow Jackets. Chad Litten contributed two hits and an RBI, Dan Novak added a two-run single, and Landon Sinclair chipped in with a triple.

Bryan Leonis went all seven innings to earn the win in the second game, allowing two unearned runs on just one hit.

Martin Luther scored runs in the first and third to open up a 2-0 lead, but Waynesburg tied it with a run in the fourth and a run in the sixth.

Phil Anderson reached on an error in leading off the bottom of the seventh for the Yellow Jackets, and Sinclair bunted him to second. Lavrusky then singled to right-center to easily bring in Anderson with the winning run.

Steele had two of Waynesburg’s five hits.

The Yellow Jackets play a 9 a.m. doubleheader today against Muhlenburg College, the wrap up their Florida trip with a twinbill on Friday against Wisconsin Lutheran.