SPRINGFIELD – Drifters alum Austin Wolfe (2023) broke the Bushnell baseball record for strikeouts in a game, fanning 13 Oregon Tech batters across eight innings on Saturday. He walked only one batter and allowed two runs en route to his fourth victory this season. Wolfe has four games with eight or more strikeouts.
Danny Womack, Wolfe’s teammate at Bushnell who is returning to the Drifters in this year after playing with the squad in ’24, had his best offensive weekend of the season, driving in seven runs while going 5-for-13 at the plate in the series win for the Beacons. On the other side, Nick Gimino (’25) went 7-for-16 with a home run, three RBIs, and five runs in his return to Hamlin Sports Complex for Oregon Tech.
■ Drifters alums Dominic Hellman (’22) and Ryan Cooney (’23) continued to find success for the Ducks in their series win against Northwestern. Hellman smashed four home runs across three games, finishing with eight RBIs and five runs scored in three starts vs. the Wildcats. Cooney homered twice while hitting .583 (7-for-12) in the weekend series.
■ Andrew Gauna (’24, ’25) also hit above .500 this weekend, going 6-for-11 for San Diego. The outfielder had four RBIs, two doubles, two walks, and two steals for the Toreros in their three-game series against Gonzaga.
■ On the mound, several Drifters alums had great weekends. AJ Victoravich (’25) pitched three perfect innings and struck out one across two outings vs. Cal Poly Pomona for Cal State Stanislaus, and Ryan Haider (’23) pitched two perfect innings with three Ks in two appearances against Grand Canyon for Washington State. Eli Holbert (’22, ’23) struck out six batters across 3.2 innings of one-run baseball for VCU, and Isaac Evaniew (’22) had his best outing of the season for Arkansas-Little Rock, striking out three batters in three innings of work.
■ Luis Pablo Navarro, Hunter Meyer, and Ethan Atchley all stood out for their respective squads. Navarro, a left-hander from Tulane, struck out five batters in two innings pitched against Northwestern State and Memphis. Meyer, an outfielder at Cal State Fullerton, finished 3-for-8 at the plate with an RBI and a steal across two contests against UNLV and CSUN. Atchley, who will be joining the Drifters pitching staff this summer from Rice, needed only 27 pitches to get through three scoreless innings against South Florida.
■ Other notable accomplishments from this week include alum Gage Bruce (’23, ’24) hitting his first career home run for Portland on Sunday, Jaxson Kister (’25) was 5-for-14 with three doubles against #1 Dennison for Linfield, and Caden Young hit a pinch-hit, walk-off, two-RBI single for Fordham against Richmond.
■ The Drifters have launched a new website that includes the 2026 roster. Check out www.driftersbaseball.com/
