Hamilton College's Ethan Murphy '22 hit his first home run and Gavin Schaefer-Hood '22 tied the program record for career wins in the Continentals' 14-1 non-conference victory against the Cazenovia College Wildcats at Hamilton's Loop Road Athletic Complex on Friday afternoon.
 
The Continentals (1-2 overall) racked up 17 hits and scored four runs in the second, fifth and sixth innings. Hamilton has yet to commit an error through three games. The Continentals play two games with The College of New Jersey at Chain O'Lakes Stadium in Winter Haven, Fla., on Tuesday, March 15.
 
Cazenovia (1-4), a member of the North Atlantic Conference, scored their run in the top of the first inning. Cameron Ciampaglia singled in the run after the Wildcats started the inning with a walk and a hit batsman. Tristan Murray doubled and Jack Lees tripled.
 
Schaefer-Hood improved to 1-1 this season and 16-8 for his Hamilton career. He's tied with Joe Rowbottom for first place on the Continentals' all-time list. He struck out seven in five innings, allowed one run on two hits and walked one.
 
Henry Tyler '25, Jack Eshleman '25, David Galvao '23 and Jamie Hauswirth '22 combined on four shutout innings. Eshleman and Galvao struck out the side. At one point, Hamilton pitchers retired 19 straight Cazenovia batters.
 
Murphy led off the bottom of the seventh with a line drive over the left-center field fence that made it 13-1. He finished with three hits and two runs batted in.
 
Phil Bernstein '23 had three singles and a walk at the top of the Continentals' batting order. Jackson Sattinger '24 doubled, tripled and drove in four runs. Ethan Harrast '23 went 2-for-2, including a double, with two walks. Jack Herlihy '22 singled twice and Adam Wijaya '22 cracked two singles and drove in two runs. Brady Slinger '22 hammered a triple to deep center that plated two runs in the fifth inning.
 
Hamilton took a 4-1 lead in the bottom of the second on RBI singles by Murphy, Jackson Johns '24 and Wijaya. Slinger's triple gave the Continentals a 6-1 lead and was the big blow in the four-run fifth. Sattinger's bases-loaded triple to left center in the sixth inning put Hamilton up by double digits at 11-1. He then trotted home on Harrast's double to left field.