Hartford, Conn. - Senior Eric Thronson (McLean, Va.) went 6-for-7 with three doubles, two walks, two runs, and five RBIs to lead the Trinity College Bantams to a 26/6-10/4 doubleheader sweep against the visiting Williams College Ephs in baseball action this afternoon on Murren Family Field at DiBenedetto Stadium.  Trinity finishes the year at 11-6 and the Ephs end up at 7-6.  Trinity scored 11 runs in the third inning and 10 more in the sixth in the seven-inning opener that took a bit over three hours.  In game two, the Bantams scored twice in the bottom of the eighth inning to break a 4-4 tie and complete the sweep.

Thronson started the scoring with a two-run double in the bottom of the second of the first game, before Williams put up eight runs in the top of the third including four on back-to-back two-run doubles by Jakob Cohn and Nate Orluk. First-year 1B Sean Meth (Sands Point, N.Y.) tripled with the bases loaded to give the lead back to Trinity at 10-8 in the bottom of the third, and sophomore Brandon Chow (Greenwich, Conn.), who had pinch-run and scored earlier in the inning, completed the third with a three-run, inside-the-park homer to make the score, 13-8.  Chow added a two-RBI double in the fifth inning, while Thronson's two-run double and a grand slam by Meth highlighted the 10th frame.  The teams used 12 pitchers including eight by the home team, and rookie lefty Tyler Griffin (Milford, Conn.) was the best of the bunch with 2.1 innings of hitless and scoreless ball with two strikeouts for the Bantams.  Erik Mini and C. Whitehouse had three hits apiece for Williams.  Thronson finished 5-for-5 at the plate, while Meth and senior co-captain Alex Rodriguez (Windsor, Conn.) had three hits each for Trinity.

The nightcap was tied at 4-4 when Trinity first-year John Flannigan (Syosset, N.Y.) led off with a single, stole second base, and scored the go-ahead run on a single by sophomore 3B Patrick Dillon (Bronx, N.Y.).  Dillon later scored on a two-out, run-scoring hit by senior Vince Capone (Lower Gwynedd, Pa.), and senior co-captain RHP Justin Olson (Avon, Conn.) pitched the top of the ninth to collect his second save.  The Bantams had scored twice in the first inning on consecutive sacrifice flies by Capone and Rodriguez, but Williams answered with a two-run jack by Tyler Spiezio in the second inning to tie it.  Each team scored twice more, as Rodriguez accounted for both Trinity runs with another sacrifice fly and a run scored thanks to a single by senior 1B Gianni Valentini (Cranston, R.I.) that tied the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the fifth.  Trinity junior RHP Jimmy Fahey (Danbury, Conn.) got the win in relief, going four innings and allowing four hits and a run with a walk and four strikeouts.  Eph reliever Nick Skiera took the loss.  Capone was 2-for-4 to finish 4-for-8 in the game, while Mini was 2-for-4 with a solo homer for the Williams offense.