CLINTON, N.Y. – After falling in game one on Saturday with a final score of 15-0, the No. 3-seeded Trinity College baseball team took down No. 2 Hamilton College, 6-4 to force game three in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) first round. The Bantams and Continentals will play the third game of the opening round series tomorrow at 11 a.m. with the winner advancing to Championship Weekend at Trinity College May 13-15. 
 
Game one was dominated by Hamilton which recorded 19 hits and scored runs in all but one inning. Gavin Schaefer-Hood registered the win on the mound to improve to 5-2 while Preston Perez earned the save and the two pitchers combined for a seven-hit shutout. Phil Bernstein led the Continentals with four hits while Jay Schlaefer homered in the sixth. 
 
Junior Cooper McGrath (South Hamilton, Mass.) earned the win for the Bantams in game two, entering in the fourth and recording five strikeouts over four and a third innings. Senior Jake Mello (Kennebunk, Maine) closed in the ninth for his second save of the season. Trinity took a 3-0 lead in the top of the second inning with first-year Tanner Fairchild and sophomore Yoshi Omi-Jarrett (Mill Valley, Calif,) each tallying RBIs to score sophomore James Stefanowicz (Stamford, Conn.) and senior Mike Guanci (Wakefield, Mass.), respectively. Hamilton responded in the fourth when Shane Dux doubled to left center to score Jackson Sattinger. Both teams added runs in the sixth inning with Hamilton tying the game at 4-4 before Guanci singled down the right field line in the seventh to score sophomores Bennett Teceno (Centerville, Mass.) and Sean Meth (Sands Point, N.Y.) to regain the lead at 6-4. Junior Patrick Dillon (Bronx, N.Y.), senior Colin Mann (Dedham, Mass.), Meth and Guanci each tallied two hits while Guanci and Omi-Jarrett led the club with a combined four RBIs.