SWARTHMORE, Pa. - No. 7-ranked Swarthmore College Baseball beat Widener 6-1 in its first game of the season at Clothier Field on Tuesday. The Garnet are 8-3 this year.

Ryan Warm pitched all nine innings and allowed just four hits to improve to 2-0 in 2019. The junior has pitched a total of 19 innings in his last two home outings. On May 6, 2018, Warm started and went 10 innings in Swarthmore's 11-inning Centennial Championship victory over Johns Hopkins.

Swarthmore's big blow came off the bat of Conor Elliott in the eighth. The two-run homer by the senior third baseman wasted no time getting over the left field fence. He became the sixth Swarthmore player to hit a home run this season, and the team has eight now. Twelve Garnet players combined to club a program-record 44 dingers in 2018.

The Garnet were hitless through three innings on Tuesday but rallied for three in the fourth. Junior Charles Levitt led off the frame with a triple off the wall in center field. Senior Jackson Roberts and sophomore Michael Sepe both had RBI singles in the inning, and junior Holden Bridge had an RBI sac fly.

Bridge had his 10-game hit streak snapped by the Lions as he went 0-for-2 with a walk and the aforementioned sacrifice. The reigning Centennial Player of the Week has 26 hits this season with a team-best .542 batting average. Before today's game, Bridge ranked third in the nation in batting average among players with at least 35 at bats.

Freshman Luke Mutz doubled to score Bridge in the sixth for Swarthmore's fourth run.

The Garnet are back on Clothier Field for one more game tomorrow against New Jersey City University beginning at 3:30 p.m.