Box Score 
WALTHAM - The Tufts baseball team had 20 hits, including five by Peter DeMaria (pictured), as the Jumbos won the first game of a home-and-home set with local non-conference rival Brandeis University 16-4 on Friday.
Tufts' 20 hits are second only to the 23 they had at Guilford on March 21 of this season. In addition to DeMaria, Ryan Noone had three and Kyle Cortese, Ben Leonard, Miles Reid, Jimmy Evans and Ozzie Fleischer all had two. The game was tied at 3-3 after six innings, but Tufts (22-10) scored five in the seventh and eight in the ninth for the lopsided final. After scoring 18 runs on 18 hits at Bates yesterday (18-2 win), Tufts has now scored 34 runs with 38 hits in the last two days.
Brandeis (17-13) was led by two hits and two runs from Mike Khoury and two hits with two runs batted in by Brian King.
Starters Cameron Mayer for the Jumbos and Asher Kaplan for the Judges both threw three scoreless innings to start the game. The Jumbos' Evans singled and scored by advancing home on a stolen base attempt for the first run of the game in the fourth. Brandeis answered in the bottom of the frame as Khoury doubled and scored on a Victor Oppenheimer double.
Tufts grabbed a 3-1 lead in the top of the fifth when DeMaria homered with two outs, scoring Ben Leonard who had singled. The Judges tied the score with two of their own in the sixth, as King had a two-run base hit scoring Khoury and Luke Hall who had led off with singles.
A good game heading into the late innings, Tufts created some space in the seventh again after two were out. Leonard doubled to center field with Patrick Solomon (lead-off bunt single) scoring. DeMaria doubled to score Leonard, and then scored himself on a single by Miles Reid. Evans doubled home Reid and then scored on an infield single by Noone making it 8-3. Tufts had six hits in the inning.
They would get six more in the ninth, including a grand slam by Connor Bowan and a two-run single by Cortese. The Jumbos sent 14 men to the plate in the inning, with Noone and pinch-hitter Nate Bozzella also picking up rbis.
Brian Garcia walked and scored on a Justin Keeler single in the Brandeis ninth.
DeMaria and Evans both scored three times for Tufts, while Leonard, Reid and Solomon had two runs apiece. The rbi leaders for Tufts were Bowman (4), DeMaria (3), Cortese (2) and Noone (2). Mayer improved to 3-2 going six innings allowing seven hits and three runs with five strikeouts. Jack Schwartz pitched two innings of relief allowing one hit and no runs.
Kaplan (6.2 IP, 13 H, 8 R) was the losing pitcher for Brandeis.
The teams play another single game tomorrow at noon at Tufts' Huskins Field.
