Box Score 
MEDFORD - Junior Willie Archibald, making his first start in almost a month, threw a seven-hit shutout as the Tufts baseball team defeated Wesleyan, 10-0, to force a final game in the 2014 NESCAC Championship tournament.
Wesleyan (26-11), which won its first two games in the tournament, entered Sunday needing one win to capture their first-ever conference title. Tufts (33-6), playing its fourth game in less than two days, avoided elimination with the win. The Jumbos and Cardinals will play again Sunday with the title on the line, starting at 1:35 pm.
Archibald threw 126 pitches to record his third win of the season. In addition to allowing the seven hits, he walked two and hit a batter while striking out five. He stranded nine Cardinal base-runners, six in scoring position.
The Jumbo offense provided plenty of support right from the beginning. Wesleyan sophomore starter Peter Rantz didn't get out of the first inning as Tufts scored four times. Jumbo sophomore shortstop Matt Moser, who has eight rbis in the tournament, hit a two-run double in the inning. Senior 1B Max Freccia singled home a run and scored, and a Wesleyan error added the fourth run.
Cardinal junior Sam Elias came on in relief with one out in the first and was superb for four innings allowing just one hit. While the Wesleyan bats couldn't capitalize on their opportunities, Elias kept it a 4-0 game.
However, two hit batters - Tufts has been hit by pitches 14 times this weekend - sparked a three-run Jumbo sixth against Elias. Junior LF Nick Barker doubled home two runs and then scored on a single by freshman 2B Tom Petry for a 7-0 Tufts lead.
The Jumbos added three more in the eighth making in 10-0, all scoring on a bases-clearing double to center by senior 3B Wade Hauser.
Tufts had 13 hits in the game, with Hasuer, Freccia, Moser and Barker all recording two. Moser and Barker scored twice.
Rantz took the loss for Wes (2-2), going just two-thirds of an inning allowing four hits and four runs (three earned).
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