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Baseball Closes Season With 5-1 Win Over Rider
May 04, 2005 | Baseball
May 4, 2005
Box Score
Princeton, N.J. - Sophomore Sal Iacono had three hits and two RBIs as the Princeton baseball team closed out the 2005 season with a 5-1 win over Rider on Wednesday afternoon at Clarke Field. Down 1-0 in the fourth, Iacono hit a two-run homer to put Princeton up for good in the game. Sophomore Wills Sweney allowed an unearned run on one hit in five innings to pick up the win as the Tigers close the season with a record of 17-24.
Sweney was strong from the beginning as he improved to 2-5 on the season. He surrendered just one hit in five innings and the only run scored against him was unearned. He struck out two. The run came in the second after the leadoff batter reached on an error and scored on a double.
He got the runs support he needed in the fourth inning when Princeton (17-24) took the lead. Senior Adam Balkan hit a one-out single to left center and scored when Iacono golfed a two-run homer down the left field line for his third longball of the season.
The Tigers added two more in the fifth inning to make the score 4-1. Senior Paul Ackerman led off with a walk and went to second when junior Matthew Becker beat out the throw on a sac bunt attempt for a hit. A passed ball advanced the runners and Ackerman scored on a single by sophomore Aaron Prince and Becker went home on senior Will Venable's sac fly to center field. The Tigers added an additional run in the eighth. Iacono hit a leadoff double, went to third on a groundout and scored on junior Stephen Wendell's single up the middle.
Once Sweney left the game, the Tiger bullpen held Rider (12-26) scoreless while allowing them just three hits in four innings. Senior Worth Lumry allowed a hit in a scoreless sixth, freshman Steven Miller tossed a perfect seventh and senior Brian Kappel earned his sixth save of the season with two scoreless innings to close out the game.
Erik Holck took the loss for Rider after allowing four runs on five hits in five innings.