LEXINGTON, Va. - The visiting Trinity College Bantams swept the Washington and Lee University Generals, 4/13-3/2, in a baseball doubleheader this afternoon. Trinity improves to 5-3 and will close a three-day swing in Virginia with a 3 p.m. ga,e at Eastern Mennonite University tomorrow. The Generals fall to 11-6. Trinity junior LHP
Tyler Griffin (Milford, Conn.) tossed four scoreless innings to earn the win and classmate Yoshi Omi-Jarret (Mill Valley, Calif.) drove home the game-winning run with a sacrifice fly in game one and junior
James Stefanowicz (Norwalk, Conn.) went 3-for-3 with two runs and an RBI in the second game.
Washington and Lee led, 3-0, after one inning, but Griffin combined with senior
Cooper McGrath (South Hamilton, Mass.) and junior
Sam Craven (Wakefield, R.I.) to keep the Generals scoreless the rest of the way. Trinity junior
William Frain (South Hamilton, Mass.) delivered an RBI single and senior
Colin Mann (Dedham, Mass.) added a sacrifice fly to make the score, 3-2, after their half of the fourth. In the sixth frame, senior tri-captain
Patrick Dillon (Bronx, N.Y.) led off with a single and tied the game when he scored on a ground ball by Stefanowicz. Omi-Jarrett followed with a sacrifice fly to score senior
Brandon Chow (Greenwich, Conn.) for the game's final run.
Washington and Lee got a runner to second base in the bottom of the sixth inning but McGrath struck out four of five batters he faced in relief and Craven ended the game with a strikeout of the only batter he faced to collect a save. Griffin allowed just three hits in his four innings and the three Bantam relievers combined to fan eight Generals. Trinity managed just four hits, including a triple by junior 1B
Sean Meth (Sands Point, N.Y.).
The Bantams pounded out 15 hits in the nightcap. Rookie
Tyler Bernstein (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) led off the game with a double and junior SS
Jack Mathews (Westport, Conn.) drove him home with a single one batter later. Frain came through with a two-out, two-run single later in the opening stanza. The Bantams scored twice more in the second inning on a sacrifice fly by Mathews and a two-run double by Meth. Both teams scored twice in the fifth but Trinity blew the game open with five more runs in the last two innings. Six different Bantams had multiple hits, while first-year starter
Kody Perry (Greenbrae, Calif.) and sophomore
Tyler Colditz (Lakewood Ranch, Fla.) combined to allow three hits and two runs over seven innings on the bump.