BRUNSWICK, Maine - Sophomore RHP
Michael Aceto (Hamden, Conn.) pitched a complete game with five strikeouts to lead the visiting Trinity College Bantams to a 5-2 win in the second game and a split of its New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division doubleheader against the Bowdoin College Polar Bears in baseball action this afternoon on Pickard Field. Trinity is now 13-7 overall and 3-3 in the NESCAC East. Bowdoin, which won yesterday's series opener and today's first game, both by 2-1 scores, ends the weekend at 11-6 overall and 2-1 in the division. Trinity visits Westfield State on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. in its next game.
Trinity manufactured its first run in the top of the first inning when rookie 3B
Tyler Bernstein (Ponte Vedra, Fla.) singled, advanced to second on a walk to junior SS
Jack Mathews (Westport, Conn.), stole third and scored on a double play. The score stayed the same until the fifth inning when the Bantams scored a pair of unearned runs. Junior
Jack Ryan (Bethesda, Md.) had a double and scored in the fifth, while the Polar Bears committed a pair of errors. Mathews singled and scored on bases-loaded walk in the sixth frame, while junior C Yoshi Ome-Jarrett (Mill Valley, Calif.) walked, stole a base, and eventually scored on a wild pitch in the seventh.
Aceto was nearly untouchable through eight innings, as a Bowdoin runner reached second base just three times until the ninth. The Polar Bears scored twice, one earned, in the ninth on an RBI single by Nick Merrill. Aceto allowed five hits and walked one for his second complete game in a row to improve to 4-1 and Ryan was 2-for-5 at the plate. Jake Sullivan took the loss for the Polar Bears, going 3.0 innings and permitting one earned run.
The seven-inning first game was a pitcher's duel and entered the seventh frame scoreless. Bantam senior co-captain 2B
Patrick Dillon (Bronx, N.Y.) led off the final inning with a single and scored on a sacrific fly by first-year OF
Dylan Schnitzer (Huntington, N.Y.). Bowdoin scored twice in the bottom of the seventh, however, on run-scorings singles by Ben McKenzie and Stephen Simoes. Dillon had Trinity's two hits off Bowdoin's Jack Mullen who went the distance with five K's. Bantam rookie
Kody Perry (Greenbrae, Calif.) was nearly as good, yielding six hits and walking two over 6.1 innings. Trinity sophomore LHP
Jonathan Link (Holmes, N.Y.) was saddled with the loss in relief. Simoes was 3-for-4 for the Polar Bears.