Hartford, Conn. - Junior P Jeremiah Bayer
(Greenfield, Mass.) needed just 65 pitches to throw a
seven-inning no-hitter, leading the Trinity College Bantams to a
doubleheader split (8/0 - 0/3) with the visiting Amherst College
Lord Jeffs in New England Small College Athletic Conference
(NESCAC) baseball action this afternoon. Trinity, ranked No.
6 the nation, is 22-4 overall and 13-1 in the NESCAC East, while
the Lord Jeffs are 15-10 overall and 8-4 in the NESCAC
West.
In game one, Amherst managed just three baserunners against Bayer -
sophomore OF Brian Merrigan (Holbrook, Mass.)
walked and senior 2B Mike Neff (New York,
N.Y.) reached twice on an error. With two outs in
the bottom of the seventh inning, sophomore DH Alex
Coburn (Brookline, Mass.) made a bid to break up the
no-hitter with a long fly ball to center field, but junior
OF Matt Sullivan (North Reading, Mass.) was
there to make the catch as the team rushed to the mound to
congratulate the pitcher on the 14th no-hitter in Trinity baseball
history. It was the sixth seven-inning no-hitter in the
Trinity record book and the last since Tim Kiely threw a
seven-inning perfect game on April 21, 2007 against Tufts
University.
The Bantams offense got all they needed in the first inning after
senior C Sean Killeen (Greenfield, Mass.)
drove home junior OF Jack Abbott (Longmeadow,
Mass.) for the first run of the game, with one of his
three doubles in his four-hit game. Trinity would add two
more in the second and one apiece in the fourth and fifth innings
to go up 5-0, before tacking on three more in the final frame to
jump on top 8-0, the eventual final score, as Bayer would pitch a
perfect seventh to complete the no-hitter.
The Amherst pitching staff completed a remarkable feat of their own
in Game two, allowing no runs to the Trinity offense, the first
time a team has shut Trinity out since April 30, 2006 (2-0 loss to
Brandeis), snapping a span of 112 straight games with at least one
run.
Sophomore P Ryan Healy (Westport, Conn.)
started the game for the Lord Jeffs, throwing 4.1 innings of
shutout baseball before running into some trouble in the fifth,
after having escaped a bases-loaded jam in the fourth.
Sophomore P Pat Harris (Rochester, N.Y.) took over
and earned the win with a scoreless inning of relief in the
nine-inning game. Sophomore P Max McKenna (Lexington,
Mass.) earned his second save of the season with 3.2
innings of work to cap the 3-0 shutout for the Lord Jeffs.
Freshman P James Ramsey (Belmont, Mass.)
takes a tough loss, allowing just four hits in six innings for the
Bantams, and sophomore P Conor O'Sullivan-Pierce
(Cambridge, Mass.) was dominant in three innings of work,
allowing just one hit, but the Bantams bats were stagnant,
stranding 11 runners on base in the game.
Amherst senior 3B Brendan Powers (Walpole, Mass.)
scored a run and knocked in two to lead the Lord Jeffs offense, and
Abbott collected four of his five hits on the afternoon in the
second game.
Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
