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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
Santa Clara (Game 1)
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Baseball Team Splits Doubleheader at Santa Clara
March 28, 2010 | Baseball
Game 1 (Box Score)
Princeton scored the game's first run and also led 2-1 after three at-bats, but a three-run Santa Clara third turned momentum in the Broncos favor in the eventual 10-3 win.
Princeton struck first in the top of the second inning when Tom Boggiano singled home Alex Flink, who had reached on a fielder's choice. The Broncos got the run right back in the bottom of the inning, but the Tigers regained the lead in the second when Sam Mulroy doubled and later scored on a wild pitch.
Santa Clara again answered Princeton's run in the bottom of the third as the Broncos his a dingle and three doubles to push three runs across. An inning later, the Broncos built their lead to 6-2 when Lucas Herbst hit a two-run homer to right field.
Down 6-2 in the sixth, Princeton put its first three on, pushed across a run and had runners on the corners with no outs, but Santa Clara starter Alex Rivers picked off Brandon Englert, struck out Jon Broscious and got an inning-ending pop-up to quell the Tiger threat. Mulroy and Brian Berkowitz earned back-to-back walks to start the inning and an Englert single plated Mulroy.
Santa Clara escaped the threat and then padded its lead with four runs in the bottom of the seventh. The big hit of the inning was a Blake Leyva singled up the middle with the bases loaded that plated a pair of runs.
David Palms took the loss and falls to 1-2 this season. He allowed nine runs on 11 hits in six-plus innings. Rivers improved to 2-3 with the win.
Game 2 (Box Score)
Princeton bounced back from the lopsided loss in the opener to top the Broncos 16-8 in the nightcap. All nine batters in the Tiger lineup had hits, eight scored runs and seven drove in runs as Princeton plated a season-high 16 runs on 17 hits, also a season high.
Princeton jumped out to a 4-0 lead with a run on a Broscious solo homer to dead center and a bases-clearing triple-turned-single by Brian Berkowitz. The home run came in the second inning and Berkowitz's hit gave Princeton a 4-0 lead. He had tripled down the right field line, but was later called out on second after Santa Clara appealed that he had missed second base.
Santa Clara chipped a run off the lead in the third inning, but the Tigers extended the lead to 6-1 in their next at-bat as Broscious began the inning with a solo home run, his second of the game and fourth of the season, pulled down the left field line. The Tigers added a second run in the inning as Noel Gonzales-Luna drove in John Mishu, who had singled, with a sac fly.
Santa Clara cut the lead to two runs at 6-4 with a run in the fourth and two in the fifth as Tommy Medica and Geoff Klein plated runs in the fifth. Princeton though responded with four runs of its own in the top of the sixth. After a Mishu leadoff double, Princeton scored runs on hits from Boggiano, Flink and Mulroy, as Princeton assumed a 10-5 lead.
The Broncos potent offense responded in the bottom of the sixth with three runs to make it a three-run game as Herbst singled in a run and Wagner drove in two with a double to right center. That was it for Tiger starter Langford Stuber, who pitched five-plus innings and gave up seven earned runs on 10 hits. Kevin Link entered the game and finished the inning with a flyout and two strikeouts, stranding an inherited runner at third base.
Princeton tacked two of those runs back onto its lead in the top of the seventh as walks to Broscious and Matt Connor turned into runs. A balk sent the runners to second and third and both scored when Gonzales-Luna singled through the right side for his second hit and second and third RBIs of the game. Connor then drove in Princeton's 13th run in the top of the eighth with a single.
The Tigers added two runs in the top of the ninth as Brian Berkowitz drove in his fourth and fifth runs of the game when he belted a two-run homer to left field, plating Mulroy, who had singled.
Stuber picked up his second straight win, while Link earned the four-inning save, allowing just a single run on one hit. Santa Clara starter Jon Hughes was tagged with the loss. The Broncos used a total of seven pitchers in the game.
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Princeton moved to 5-12 with the split and will look to earn a split of the four-game series on Sunday afternoon when the two teams conclude the series. Zak Hermans will get the start for Princeton.