Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 A seventh-inning rally came up short as Salem University fell to Wheeling University 2-1 in game two of a doubleheader in NCAA II baseball Sunday at Frank Loria Memorial Field. Wheeling also took the opener 7-0.
 
The doubleheader was the 2020 season openers for both teams and was added to the schedule just two days prior. Salem and Wheeling were scheduled to travel south to open the season, but both teams' series were canceled due to the weather.
 
Salem (0-2) was held scoreless until the bottom of the seventh of the nightcap when Dominic Curole laced a triple down the right field line to lead off the inning. Curole came home on Austin Whetzel's sacrifice fly to center to cut the Cardinals' lead in half. But Wheeling reliever Tanner Evans (1-0), who pitched the final four innings in relief, ended the Tigers' threat with a strikeout and a groundout.
 
Curole (0-1) also started on the mound and went six innings, retiring the final 10 batters he faced. Carson Ellis retired the side in order in the seventh.
 
Wheeling (2-0) jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead in the opener as Connor Watt led off the game with a home run over the left field fence. The Cardinals scored two more runs in the second and broke the game open in the sixth when two throwing errors and a no-call on a possible runner interference led to four unearned runs.
 
Brendan Case (0-1) made his first start in two years after pitching out of the bullpen last season while recovering from an injury. Case went five innings and struck out seven, including four in a row during one stretch.
 
Tyler D'Alessandro had the Tigers' only two hits in game one, a pair of doubles.
 
Salem returns to action next weekend as the Tigers travel to Bristol, Tenn., for a three-game series against King University. The two teams play a doubleheader next Saturday and a single game Sunday.