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Baseball Splits Sunday Doubleheader At Columbia
April 18, 2010 | Baseball
PRINCETON 9, COLUMBIA 3 (Game 1)
COLUMBIA 9, PRINCETON 4 (Game 2)
A three-run home run by Matt Connor helped the Princeton baseball team to its first victory of the weekend at Gehrig Division leader Columbia, but the Lions battled back in the Sunday nightcap to maintain a five-game edge on the Tigers with two weekends to play.
GAME ONE
Freshman Zak Hermans went the distance in the seven-inning victory during the first game of a doubleheader. He allowed eight hits and one earned run while striking out four batters. His only allowed run came in the fourth inning, when the Tigers already held a 6-1 lead.
Trailing 1-0 after one inning, Princeton got rolling in the top of the second. John Mishu led off with a triple and tied the score on a single by Jon Broscious. Junior Brandon Englert single to right field, and Connor drove both runners home with a three-run blast over the right field wall.
Mishu started another rally in the next inning, and it came after the first two Tiger batters were retired. Mishu singled to left center and scored on a two-run shot by Broscious over the right center fence.
The Tigers put the game away in the top of the seventh. A double to right center by Alex Flink scored Nate Baird, who led off with a double, to build the lead to 7-2. Sam Mulroy put a two-out pitch over the right center wall to give Princeton a 9-2 edge.
GAME TWO
Columbia was the team to use the second inning as an offensive launching point in the second game of the doubleheader. After a throwing error allowed the first two Lions' runs to score, Jason Banos drove a two-run double to right center to give Columbia a 4-0 lead. The Lions added two more runs on another Princeton error and a single by Dean Forthun and left the inning with a 6-0 led.
Princeton junior Matt Grabowski came into the game during the second inning and pitched 5.2 innings, allowing only five hits and two earned runs. By that point, Columbia starter Stefan Olson had all of the run support he would need; Olson allowed only two runs over six innings to take the victory.
The Tigers cut a 7-0 deficit by two runs in the top of the sixth inning. Englert drove in Mulroy with a single to the right side, and Andrew Whitener added an RBI groundout to score Mishu for the second run. Princeton added two more runs in the top of the ninth with RBIs from Connor and Tom Boggiano, but Alex Black closed Princeton out with a strikeout.
Princeton, which is now 4-8 in the Gehrig Division, will head to St. John's Tuesday at 7 p.m., before returning to Clarke Field next weekend for four games against Penn.