Lehigh baseball set a Division I record by scoring 20 runs in the first inning of a 38-6 win over Coppin State on Tuesday.
Eight Mountain Hawks players had reached base in the top of the first inning, five runs were scored, and the Eagles made a pitching change before recording the first out. The remaining 15 runs came across before out 2.
Runs 4 through 16 were all scored on walks, hit by pitches or wild pitches, and first baseman Owen Walewander closed out the mayhem with a grand slam to make it 20-0.
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Lehigh had 23 plate appearances during the inning with 11 walks, six HBPs and just three hits.
The 20 runs broke the previous record for a first inning of 18 set by Princeton in March 1974 and tied by Air Force in April 1974. Lehigh did come up shy of the Division I record for runs in any inning, as George Mason scored 23 in the second inning of a 2025 game against Holy Cross.
Coppin State did manage to trim a run back in the bottom of the inning to trail 20-1 through the first.
Also among the firsts set in Tuesday’s seven-inning blowout: a new Patriot League mark for runs in a game and an NCAA record seven walks drawn by senior third baseman Aidan Quinn.
Lehigh finished the game with 12 hits (five extra-base hits), 25 walks and nine HBPs. Coppin State threw 11 wild pitches.
