MARQUETTE — Between clutch hitting and just plain ol’ overpowering offense, the Marquette and Negaunee baseball teams each swept doubleheaders earlier this week.

The Sentinels swept Menominee at home on Monday, winning an opening-game Great Northern Conference encounter 16-6, then getting a walkoff nonconference victory in the nightcap, 5-4.

Negaunee pulled off a pair of 10-run rule victories at home on Wednesday, dropping Gladstone 10-0 and 13-3, each in five innings.

The two victorious teams square off against each other at Neagunee in a doubleheader at 4 p.m. Monday.

Here’s a rundown of their recent games:

Marquette 16, Menominee 6

On Monday at Haley Memorial Field in Marquette, the Sentinels built an early lead and kept adding to it despite collecting eight hits. MSHS took advantage of 11 walks and four hit batsmen even while committing four errors to none for the visitors. Marquette led 4-0 after one inning and 9-2 after three.

Gib Jezewski led the Sentinels’ offense, going 3 for 3 with a double, walk, two RBIs and two runs scored.

Teammate Alex Brennan, however, made the most of his opportunities, going 2 for 2 with a pair of singles but six RBIs as he walked, was hit by a pitch and scored a run. He drew a bases-loaded walk in the third and hit two-run singles in both the fourth and fifth.

Marquette’s Aidan Mason and Ian Sheltrow each knocked in two runs despite them having just one hit between them. Each scored a run as Sheltrow was also hit by a pitch and stole two bases. In addition, Easton Jezewski didn’t have an official at-bat but collected an RBI as he walked four times.

Desmond Gleason got the Sentinels’ scoring started in the bottom of the first inning, hitting an RBI single down the left field line before Gib Jezewski’s double to center, Brennan’s hit-by-pitch and a Mason groundout each brought in a run.

In Marquette’s third, Brennan got his bases-loaded walk and Mason was hit by a pitch, also with the bases filled, before Sheltrow clubbed a two-run single.

Gib Jezewski started and got the win on the mound, going three innings and allowing two runs — only one earned — on one hit and five walks as he struck out four.

Jake Toyras went the next two innings, allowing four runs — two earned — on four hits and two walks as he fanned three. Sheltrow worked the sixth, putting zeroes across the board except for one strikeout.

Marquette 5, Menominee 4

Apparently after the long opener, their was only enough daylight for five innings in the nightcap, just enough time — or outs, actually — to set the Sentinels up for a game-winning comeback in the bottom of the fifth that Evan Brown capped off with an RBI single and climaxed a three-run rally.

Brown finished 2 for 2, his other hit a double, and was hit by a pitch, stole a base and had an RBI and run scored.

Marquette turned around its defense as the only four errors committed in this game were all by the Maroons.

Mason and Easton Jezewski were the recipients of Marquette’s solid defense and Brown’s timely hitting. Mason started and pitched three innings, allowing an unearned run, two hits and two walks while K’ing six. Easton Jezewski got in two innings of work, allowing three earned runs on four hits and two walks as he fanned four.

Joining Brown with two hits was teammate Wes Robinson, who scored a run, while Emil Groyer had Marquette’s only other RBI while hitting a single.

Ty Biuty took the pitching loss for the Maroons, going one inning and allowing three runs, two of them earned, on three hits with a strikeout.

Marquette again jumped out early, taking a 1-0 lead after one inning before the Maroons tied it in the third and took a 4-1 lead in the top of the fourth. The Sentinels got one run back in the bottom of the fourth before an error brought home two runs to tie it 4-4 to start the fifth-inning, game-winning rally.

Negaunee 10, Gladstone 0

On Wednesday in the opener at Irontown Field in Negaunee, Miners pitcher Morgan Robar was masterful, throwing a five-inning no-hitter even as he walked five and struck out three.

“I think we’ve found our identity,” NHS manager Jason Siik said. “We’re not going to overpower most teams, but we scratch and claw.”

The Miners have done that enough to improve to 23-5 this season with Wednesday’s double-dip victories.

His teammates needed Robar’s mastery early on, as Negaunee didn’t score until the third, putting up three runs that inning, three more in the fourth, then invoking the mercy rule with the final four runs in the fifth.

Aiden Steele was one of three Miners with multiple hits. He went 2 of 2 with a double, a walk and three RBIs, while Devin Jurmu was also 2 of 2 with a double, along with two RBIs and a stolen base. Teammate Ian Engstrom was 2 of 3 with an RBI, two runs scored and a steal.

Nate Beauchamp took the pitching loss for the Braves, going the first four innings and allowing six runs on six hits and two walks as he didn’t record a strikeout.

Negaunee 13, Gladstone 3

In Wednesday’s nightcap, the home team responded after Gladstone plated three runs in the second inning to take the lead. An inning later in the third, the Miners punched in nine runs to go ahead 10-3 before adding three more after that to again invoke the 10-run rule.

Starting pitcher Tristan Slater earned the victory, going 3 2/3 innings and yielding three runs on three hits and four walks as he K’d four. Teammate Owen Cardinal went the final 1 1/3 innings, not allowing a run, a hit nor a walk as he fanned two.

Gladstone starter Gavin Fossard went two innings, allowing eight runs on four hits and four walks as he had one K.

Robar put on his RBI shoes for this game, going 2 of 2 with a double and five knocked in. He also drew a walk, stole a base and scored twice.

Batting leadoff, Cardinal was 2 of 3 as both his hits were doubles and he drew a walk, had two steals and scored three runs. Slater hit a two-run homer in the fourth, collecting two RBIs and scoring twice as he also walked.

Story contents based on email received from MSHS manager Mark Pantti and phoned-in information from Negaunee manager Jason Siik. Journal Sports Editor Steve Brownlee’s email address is sbrownlee@miningjournal.net.