COLLEGE
BASEBALL FINAL SCORES
Tufts 7, Bowdoin 5
Bowdoin 12, Tufts 4
At Brunswick, ME
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Game
1 Box Score
Game
2 Box Score
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Junior shortstop David LeResche's ground-rule
double brought home Tufts' go-ahead run
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BRUNSWICK, Me. -- The Tufts University baseball team clinched
first place in the NESCAC Eastern Division and hosting rights for
the 2010 NESCAC Championship in a doubleheader split with Bowdoin
on Saturday. The Jumbos (21-4, 9-2 NESCAC) won the opener, 7-5, to
seal first place before Bowdoin (21-10, 4-5 NESCAC) claimed the
nightcap, 12-4.
Tied at five apiece entering the sixth inning of game one, Tufts
scored a pair of runs to take the lead. Junior 2B Frank
Petroskey's (Dallas, TX) cranked a double. Then junior
shortstop David LeResche (St. Louis, MO), the
leadoff hitter, hit a ground-rule double that bounced over the wall
to bring Petroskey in to give the Jumbos the 6-5 lead. After moving
to third on a groundout, LeResche scampered home on an Ian Goldberg (Lake Forest, IL) groundout to push the lead to
7-5. Junior reliever Ed Bernstein (Foxborough, MA)
took it from there, tossing 2.2 innings of scoreless ball for the
win.
Sophomore 1B Matt Collins (Hopkinton, MA)
reached base four times for Tufts and scored two runs. Sophomore 3B
Sam Sager (Cranston, RI) and junior RF
Chase Rose (Scottsdale, AZ) also collected a pair
of hits. Brett Gorman led Bowdoin with two hits, two RBI and two
runs scored in the loss as Brendan Garner also collected a pair of
hits and a stolen base.
The Bowdoin bats came alive in game two, as the Polar Bears
blasted three home runs to take the 12-4 victory. Matt Ruane, Joe
Comizio and Adam Marquit all had round-trippers for Bowdoin, who
got two hits and three runs scored each from Brendan Garner and
Brett Gorman. Carter Butland took care of the rest by tossing 8.0
innings, scattering nine hits and allowing no earned runs in the
win. Senior DH Corey Pontes (Milton, MA) reached
base four times for the Jumbos as sophomore pitcher Dave Ryan (Trumbull, CT) took the loss after allowing three
earned runs in 2.1 frames.
Bowdoin's game-two win stopped their own five-game losing
streak, while halting Tufts' 11-game winning streak.
Tufts plays a non-conference game at home against Eastern
Connecticut on Monday afternoon at 3 pm. The Polar Bears are at
Brandeis on Wednesday at 4 pm.
Game release courtesy of Bowdoin College.
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