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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
UNC Greensboro
UNCG Jumps to Early Lead, Tops Princeton 5-2
March 22, 2006 | Baseball
March 22, 2006
Box Score
GREENSBORO, N.C. - UNC Greensboro scored three runs in the first inning and held onto the lead throughout the night for a 5-2 win against the Princeton baseball team in Wednesday night at the UNCG Baseball Stadium. Sophomores Spencer Lucian and Micah Kaplan each had two hits in the game. Seniors Andrew Salini and Matthew Becker also hit safely in the game.
Princeton looked to get off to a good start as Lucian led off with a single to center field. However, a 463 double play and a line out ended the Princeton inning and brought UNCG to the plate for the bottom half of the inning.
Greg Feltes began the inning for UNCG by reaching on a throwing error. A single by Brandon Harvey followed, but it was overrun in the outfield, which allowed Feltes to score and pushed Harvey to third base. He then scored when Jermaine Mitchell tripled. Mitchell scored the inning's final run on Guy Welsh's single.
The Spartans pushed their lead to 4-0 in the third inning. After Wes McCall tripled, Mike Mongiello singled home the runner.
Princeton chipped two runs off the UNC Greensboro lead with two runs in the sixth inning. Becker and Lucian led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Junior Aaron Prince moved the runners with a sac bunt and Becker scored on senior Andrew Salini's RBI-groundout. UNCG appeared to get out of the inning as the next batter, junior Sal Iacono, hit a grounder to third, but a fielding error left Iacono on first and allowed Lucian to score. That cut the margin to 4-2, but was as close as Princeton could get as UNCG tacked on a final run in the seventh for the 5-2 final.
Princeton used five pitchers in the game and the group allowed five runs on 11 hits. Sophomore Steven Richter started the game and took the loss as he allowed four runs in three innings. Sophomore Steven Alexander made his first career appearance in a scoreless fourth, before junior Gavin Fabian pitched two scoreless innings. Junior Michael Zaret allowed a run in the seventh and sophomore Steven Miller pitched a scoreless eighth.
UNCG's Clay Gibson allowed both Princeton runs, but earned the win for the Spartans. Jonathan Nichols closed out the game, allowing a hit in four innings.
The loss drops Princeton to 3-9 on the season as the Tigers have dropped six games in a row. Princeton will look to get back in the win column on Friday afternoon at Navy. First pitch is scheduled for 3 p.m.