ST. CATHARINES, Ont. - The Brock University baseball team (9-1 overall, 4-0 OUA) defeated the Waterloo Warriors by the score of 11-1 in their OUA home opener Wednesday night at George Taylor Field.

Prior to the game, the Brock Badgers Family held a moment of silence for Brock women's rugby player Margo Taylor Ward who Brock University lost after a year long battle with lukemia. 

In attendance to throw out the ceremonial first pitch for the Badgers OUA regular season homeopener was local MP Rick Dykstra.

"This was another good victory for us," said head coach Jeff Lounsbury. "Paul pitched a great game in his first appearsnce of the season and offensively everyone chipped in. We are executing on all the little things that helps win ball games."

Brock starter Paul McKenna (Oakville, Ont.) was outstanding throwing seven complete innings allowing one run (unearned) on one hit while striking out five. He faced only 24 batters over seven innings of work.

On offense, Brock continued to produce as they scored 11 more runs for a league leading 43 runs over their first four conference games.  The Badgers got two runs in the first and two in the fifth before adding four in the sixth on route to a 10-run victory.

Leading the way was newcomer Phil Steer (Toronto, Ont.) who went 2-for-4 with two doubles, three RBI and one stolen base. Freshman James Roffey (Guelph, Ont.) contributed with two hits going 2-for-4 with three RBI while senior Chris Anderi (Tecumseh, Ont.) went 2-for-5 with a double and stolen base.

Junior Ricky Ferri (St. Catharines, Ont.) extended his hit streak going 1-for-3 with an RBI and stolen base. Rounding out the offense was Jordan Grant (Mississauga, Ont.) (1-for-4, 2 RBI), Wil Nicholson (Burlington, Ont.) (1H), Justin Gideon (Pickering, Ont.) (1H) and Ben Kirby (Burlington, Ont.) (RBI, Sac Fly).

Brock returns to action Thursday night at 7pm when they host the Western Mustangs at George Taylor Field.