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Princeton University Athletics
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Brown (Game 1)
Tigers Swept by Brown in Baseball
April 09, 2006 | Baseball
April 9, 2006
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
PROVIDENCE - The Princeton baseball team dropped both ends of an Ivy League doubleheader on Sunday at Brown. The Bears took the opener 7-1 and rallied to win the second game 8-7 in 10 innings. Senior Stephen Wendell drove in three Tiger runs in the nightcap while junior Aaron Prince had an RBI in the first game.
GAME 1
Princeton put its first two batters on with hits in the top of the first inning as freshman Dan Degeorge and junior Aaron Prince singled, but could not plate a run, and instead found itself trailing 1-0 after a complete inning as a leadoff single by Paul Christian and an RBI-single to right field by Danny Hughes scored him to put Brown ahead.
Brown extended its lead in the third inning with two runs. Steve Daniels legged out an infield single and after going to second on a wild pitch, scored on Bryan Tews' double down the right field line. Tews then scored on Hughes' second run-scoring single of the game.
Princeton again put two runners on in the fourth inning, but could not score. With two outs, junior Sal Iacono hit an infield single and sophomore Micah Kaplan walked, but Tews got an inning-ending strikeout to preserve the lead for Brown. The Bears again took advantage of Princeton's inability to plate it runners and extended it lead by a run with a two-out rally in the fourth as a single, a walk and an RBI-single by Daniels scored Brown's fourth run. Paul Christian then plated three more runs in the inning with a home run to right field. The four-run inning made the score 7-0 in favor of Brown through four innings.
Princeton got on the board with its first run in the fifth inning and threatened for more. Freshman Adrian Turnham began the inning with a single to right field and advanced to second when freshman Derek Beckman singled through the right side. After an out, Prince ripped a double down the right field line to score Turnham. After a pop out, senior Zach Wendkos drew a four-pitch walk to load the bases with two outs, but Tews once again got an inning-ending strikeout to get out of any further trouble.
That was Princeton's loast chance to muster anything up as Tews shut them down the rest of the way. Tews allowed one run on seven hits for the win, while Princeton senior Erik Stiller fell to 0-3 after allowing seven runs on nine hits in six innings.
GAME 2
After falling behind early in the opening game, Princeton turned things around in the second game to take a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Wendkos his a one-out single to center field and made it to third when Iacono doubled over the head of Brown's right fielder. Both runners scored when senior Stephen Wendell his a two-RBI single through the left side.
Brown promptly evened up the score in the bottom of the second inning. Devin Thomas hit a leadoff double and went to third on Matt Nuzzo's single. A groundout by Robert Papenhouse scored Thomas a single by Christian plated Nuzzo.
Princeton reclaimed the lead in the fourth inning when four unearned Tiger runs crossed the plate. A walk and a fielder's choic left the Tigers with two on and two outs. Beckman then hit an infield single to fill the bases. That brough up DeGeorge who worked a full count before hitting a grounder that Brown shortstop Robert Papenhouse couldn't handle. The error allowed Doupe and Wendell to score and left Beckman on third. DeGeorge stole second and then him and Beckman scored when Prince hit a grounder to short that Papenhouse again could not handle. All four runs were unearned as Princeton took a 6-2 lead.
The Tigers tretched their lead to five runs in the fifth inning. A leadoff single to left for Wendkos grouped with a walk to Iacono and a single to left for Doupe loaded the bases for Princeton with no outs. The single by Doupe marked the end of the afternoon for Brown starter Shaun McNamara and Rob Hallberg came on for Brown. He got Wendell to foul out to left field, but Wendkos was able to tag up and score. Hallberg got two strikeout to end the inning.
Brown rallied to move within a run as it batted around in the sixth inning. The inning started with three-straight walks and a run scored on Nuzzo's RBI-single. A second run scored when pinch-hitter Ryan Murphy walked. The fourth walk of the inning marked the end of the day for Princeton starter Eric Walz, as freshman Brad Gemberling came on in relief. He got a sac fly to get the first out, before a fielding error allowed two more Brown runs to score. Gemberling completed the inning with a strikeout and a foul pop up, but Brown had rallied to make the score 7-6 through six full innings.
Gemberling kept Brown hitless through three innings of relief but a lead-off single by Tews in the bottom of the ninth inning led the tying run for the Bears. Tews single to center field and went to second when Hughes was hit by a pitch. A sac bunt moved him to third and he scored on a sac fly by Jeff Dietz as the game went into extra innings.
After tying the game in the ninth, Brown won the game in the 10th inning. Nuzzo hit a leadoff single and a sac bunt and groundout moved him to third, and he scored on a wild pitch.
Gemberling took the loss and fell to 0-1. He allowed two runs on two hits in four and two-thirds. Dietz took the win after two innings of scoreless relief.
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Sunday's losses drop Princeton to 4-18-1 overall and 0-6 in the Ivy League. The Tigers play a doubleheader at Yale on Monday afternoon.