Box Score Monmouth banged out 16 hits, three of them homeruns, in an 11-2 win at Iowa Wesleyan Wednesday afternoon.

In their first game since returning from Florida, the Scots bats came alive as Austin Hardy homered in back-to-back at-bats, drivng in four runs and Alex Kemmer tacked on a solo shot behiind Hardy's second round-tripper.

Blake Abbott,  Lucas Giertz and Ryan Sparks supplied the early runs for the Scots. After the Tigers scratched out a first inning run, Abbott tied the game in the second when his double plated Raahsaan Fox. Giertz then gave the Scots a 2-1 lead when his ground ball scored Chase Bair. Sparks then chased Abbott home with a base knock as the Scots plated three runs in the inning on four hits and a pair of errors.

Monmouth added s solo tally in the fourth and two more in the fifth as Abbott and Giertz added two more RBIs from their eighth and ninth spots in the order. Leading 6-2 in the sixth, Hardy connected for a two-out homer before the Scots iced the game with four runs in the eighth on Hardy and Kemmer's homeruns.

Hardy, Sparks and Kemmer picked up three hits each as Hardy finished with four RBIs to give freshman Dillon Frieden his first career win.