Medford, Mass. - Sophomore 3B Sam Sager (Cranston,
R.I.) hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the 10th
inning in game one, and the Jumbos blasted four home runs in the
second inning of game two to lead Tufts University to a 5/10-4/4
doubleheader sweep against the visiting Trinity College Bantams in
New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East
Division baseball action this afternoon at Huskins Field. The
Jumbos are now 7-1 atop the NESCAC East and have won 13 of 14 to
improve to 17-3 overall. They stopped an eight-game losing streak
against Trinity. The Bantams fall to 14-6 overall and 6-5 in the
NESCAC East for third place. Tufts and Trinity will make up
the third game of their NESCAC East Division series at a later
date. Friday's game was rained out and yesterday's
doubleheader was played today.
Trinity had a 4-1 lead through five and a half innings of game
one. Sophomore Alex LiDonni (Norwood, Mass.)
singled home a run in the fourth and freshman 1B Brad
Runowicz (Cheshire, Conn.) hit a two-run home run in the
fifth. The Jumbos scored an unearned run in the bottom of the fifth
on an RBI single by junior 2B Frank Petroskey (Dallas,
Texas), but the Bantams plated an unearned run of their
own in the sixth.
In the bottom of the sixth, Tufts rallied to tie the score at
4-4 by scoring three times. Sophomore 1B Matt Collins
(Hopkinton, Mass.) drove home two runs with a single to
right. Originally scheduled as a seven-inning game, both teams put
runners in scoring position in the extra innings, before Sager won
it for Tufts with his second home run of the season to lead off the
10th.
Collins, Petroskey, and junior SS David LeResche (St.
Louis, Mo.) each had two hits for Tufts in the first game.
Junior reliever Ed Bernstein (Foxborough, Mass.)
hurled four shutout innings allowing two hits and striking out
eight to get the win. LiDonni, freshman 3B Stephen
Rogers (Watertown, Mass.), and senior RF James
Wood (Windham, N.H.) all had two hits out of the top three
spots in the Trinity order. Sophomore Edward Donovan
(Milton, Mass.), who also pitched well in long relief,
took the loss after giving up three hits and a run with four strike
outs in 2.2 innings.
Sager picked up where he left off, hitting a two-run double in
the bottom of the first in game two. The Jumbo bats then exploded
in the second, with senior catcher Al Perry (Danvers,
Mass.), junior DH Ben Walkley (Trumbull,
Conn.), junior RF Chase Rose (Scottsdale,
Ariz.), and junior CF David Orlowitz (Wakefield,
Mass.) hitting home runs. Tufts led 9-0.
Jumbo sophomore lefty Kevin Gilchrist (Medford,
Mass.) held the Bantams to two runs on eight hits with no
walks and five strikeouts in six innings. Wood drove home Trinity's
first run with a single in the third. Walkley added an RBI single
in the third to make it 10-1 Tufts. Sophomore catcher Kevin
Mortimer (Spencer, Mass.) had an RBI single in the sixth
for Trinity, and Rogers ripped a two-run pinch-hit double in the
seventh.
Walkley finished the seven-inning game two 2 for 3 with two runs
scored and two RBI. Sager was 2 for 3 with two RBI, while junior LF
Ian Goldberg (Lake Forest, IL) went 2 for 2 with a
run and an RBI. The Bantams out-hitTufts 11-10 in the game,
led by a 4-or-4 performance from Wood. Trinity got 1.1 innings of
hitless relief from sophomore David Casanova (Bristol,
Conn.).
Game 1 box score
Game 2 box score
