VINCENNES, Ind. -- Jacob Frost and Luke Leverton combined on a three-hit shutout as Wabash Valley blanked Lincoln Trail, 6-0, in non-conference baseball on Saturday.
The 10th-ranked Warriors improved to 12-6 with their fifth straight win. Lincoln Trail fell to 8-6 with the loss.
Frost, a sophomore lefthander, picked up the win and is now 2-1 on the season in five starts. He worked the first six innings, striking out nine without issuing a walk. Lincoln Trail had three hits against him, and he hit one batter.
The only real threat Frost dealt with came in the third inning, when the Statesmen had two runners on base with only one out. He got the second out on a called third strike, then a fly ball out to end the frame.
Righthanded Leverton came on in the seventh inning. He struck out the side in his first inning, hit the leadoff batter in the eighth inning only to wipe him out with a line drive double-play by the next batter, then finished with three ground balls in the ninth to earn his second save in five appearances.
Leverton fanned four batters during his stint.
Both hurlers lowered their already impressive ERAs in the process. Frost has now given just four earned runs in 24 2/3 innings on the hill, which takes his ERA down to 1.46. Leverton has allowed just one earned run in 14 1/3 innings for an ERA of 0.63.
WVC scored single runs in the first, third, fourth, and sixth innings, then added the final two runs in the bottom of the eighth.
Nick Williams, who leads the club in home runs and RBIs, clubbed his sixth homer of the year, a solo shot that gave the Warriors a quick 1-0 lead in the first. The sophomore drove in another run with a second-inning single that scored Richard Bonomolo, Jr.
In the fourth, Bonomolo made it 3-0 by hitting a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded, scoring Yamil Torres, who led off the frame with a double.
Williams added to his RBI count, now at 24, in the sixth, coming through with another SAC fly that scored Michael Lareau with the fourth run of the day.
WVC used speed and guile to scratch out two more runs in the eighth. Isaias Villarreal stole home for one run, while Bonomolo scored on a passed ball to make it 6-0.
Williams and Torres each had two-hit games at the plate. The Warriors had seven hits on the day.
The Warriors are back in Vincennes on Sunday for two seven-inning games, one against Kellogg, Mich. (3-5) at 1 p.m. CST, the other against the host Trailblazers (4-9) at 5 p.m.