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Connor Bidwick knocked home the Jumbos' winning run
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HAMPTON, VA - After scoring 27 runs in their first two games, the Tufts baseball team won a pitcher's battle against St. Vincent on Saturday afternoon, 2-1 in 11 innings, to improve to 3-0 two days into their spring trip.
With the game tied 1-1 in the top of the 11th, Jumbo senior DH Eric Weikert (Avondale Estates, GA) worked a one-out walk. Pinch Runner Matthew Luciani (Woodbridge, CT) was doubled to third by junior 1B Max Freccia (Stamford, CT). Sophomore 3B Connor Bidwick (Brookeville, MD) followed with a sacrifice fly to right that scored Luciani and put Tufts up 2-1.
Tufts freshman Matt Moser (Great Falls, VA) struck out the side in the bottom of the 11th to secure the win. That capped four innings of one-hit relief by Moser during which he struck out five and did not walk a batter.
Both teams had scored their first run early. The Bearcats (3-5) got on the board in the first when RF Tanner Master hit a one-out single and stole second. After a walk and a hit batter loaded the bases, DH Nolan Russell's sac fly brought home the run.
The Jumbos scored their run unearned in the second. Bidwick reached on a one-out error and went to third on a failed pick-off attempt. Junior LF Nate Izzo (Saunderstown, RI) followed with an RBI single.
St. Vincent starter Gary Gerhardt and Jumbo junior Dean Lambert (Cross River, NY) settled down after that. Gerhardt would go 10 innings allowing seven hits and no earned runs with nine K's. He stranded Izzo on third in the seventh. The Jumbos would score the winning run off reliever Alex Kozusko.
Likewise, Lambert (7 IP, 4 H, 6 Ks) would allow only one more runner to third and held him there without scoring in the sixth. Moser was immense for Tufts. He entered after back-to-back walks in the eighth and got out of it unscathed. Bearcat runners reached second on him in the ninth and 10th, but he left them there.
Tufts outhit the Bearcats 9-5, led by a 3 for 5 game by Izzo. The Jumbos were 2-0 on Saturday, including an earlier 14-4 victory against Castleton.
St. Vincent's Vince Murphy was 2 for 4 against the Jumbos.
The Jumbos have Sunday off before returning to action on Monday at Guilford. St. Vincent will play Apprentice School, which hosted today's game, tomorrow.
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