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Baseball Falls to Vanderbilt in NCAA Regionals; Tigers face Virginia Tomorrow Afternoon
June 05, 2004 | Baseball
June 5, 2004
Box Score
Charlottesville, Va. - The Princeton baseball team dropped an 11-1 decision to Vanderbilt in its second game of the 2004 NCAA Charlottesville Regional Saturday night at Davenport Field. Princeton is now 1-1 in the regional and will face off against Virginia tomorrow afternoon to see which team will meet Vanderbilt to advance to the NCAA Super Regionals next weekend. Virginia is also 1-1 in the Regional after losing its opening game to Princeton this morning and eliminating George Mason this afternoon.
Both Princeton and Vanderbilt went three-up three-down in the first inning before Vanderbilt pieced together three singles to score a run in the top of the second. With one out, Mike Baxter singled to left and advanced to second on Aaron Garza's hit to shallow right field. A fielder's choice got Princeton freshman Gavin Fabian the second out of the inning at second base, but allowed Baxter to reach third, from where he scored, when Worth Scott singled through the right side. Vanderbilt added to its lead in the third inning thanks to two singles, a hit batsman and a Princeton error in the field. Ryan Klosterman hit a lead off single to right field and stole second. Antoan Richardson was hit by a pitch and Warner Jones singled to load the bases with no outs. Cesar Nicholas then hit a deep fly ball to right that was caught but Klosterman tagged up and scored the Commodores second run, but an errant throw from sophomore Andrew Salini that ended up in the Tiger dugout allowed a second run to score and Vanderbilt led 3-0 in the top of the third inning.
Princeton chipped a run off that lead in the fourth inning. With one away Salini drew a walk on a 3-2 pitch and he scored when senior Tim Lahey placed a double in the right field corner that bounced just inside the foul line and rolled around in the corner as Salini raced home to make the score 3-1.
Vanderbilt got the run back and added another two in the sixth inning to make the score 6-1. Singles by three of the first four batters loaded the bases for Worth Scott who singled into center field to plate two runs. A third run scored when Jonathan Douillard grounded out to short. The Commodores added an additional run in the eighth inning and four in the ninth to reach the 11-1 final.
Fabian pitched five and a third innings and allowed six Commodore runs on 10 hits. He struck out and walked none. With the loss he fell to 4-3 on the season. Freshman Eric Walz came on in the sixth and pitched two and two-thirds innings. He faced four batters in the ninth before junior Worth Lumry came on in relief. Junior Aaron Herr also pitched in the ninth. Vanderbilt's Ryan Mullins earned the win to improve to 9-2 on the season. He allowed one run on five hits.