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Baseball Splits Doubleheader with Penn
April 23, 2010 | Baseball
PRINCETON 8, PENN 7 (GAME ONE)
PENN 13, PRINCETON 7 (GAME TWO)
The Princeton baseball team split its doubleheader with Penn on Friday afternoon at Clarke Field. An RBI groundout by Jon Broscious led the Tigers to an exciting 8-7 victory in the first game. Despite 13 hits in the second game, Princeton fell to Penn 13-7. The Quakers used a three-run fifth inning to take the lead and would finish the game with 18 hits, outscoring the Tigers 7-3 in the last four innings.
GAME ONE
Both Sam Mulroy and Brian Berkowitz launched home runs to lead Princeton out of an early hole, but it was a groundout by Jon Broscious in the bottom of the seventh inning that led the Tigers to an 8-7 victory and their fifth victory in Ivy League play.
Penn rallied from a 7-5 deficit in the top of the seventh inning with RBI singles from William Gordon and Adrian Lorenzo, the latter coming with two outs in the seven-run contest. Princeton would be quick to rally against Reid Terry, though, to ensure a victory without extra innings.
After an inning-opening groundout, Mulroy walked and Berkowitz flipped a single over the second baseman's head to send Mulroy to second. Andrew Whitener came into pinch run for Berkowitz, but it was Broscious' legs that would be most important. He hit a hard grounder to third baseman Dan Williams, who made a nice diving stop. He threw it to second for one out, but Broscious beat the attempted double play by plenty to complete the 8-7 win.
Penn jumped out to an early 3-0 lead with one run in the first and two in the second, but Berkowitz evened the score with a towering shot into the bushes behind the rightfield wall. Princeton added four in the bottom of the fourth, with all four runs coming with two outs.
Jon Mishu gave Princeton its first lead of the game with a single to centerfield, which scored Alex Flink. Mulroy followed with a three-run home run over the leftfield wall to open a 7-3 lead.
Penn scored twice in the sixth to get within striking distance and tied it in the top of the seventh off Matt Grabowski, who got out of the jam when first baseman Mishu snagged a line drive; Grabowski ended up with the victory, while starting pitcher Dan Barnes allowed only two earned runs in six innings. He struck out five and walked only one.
GAME TWO
Two errors and two hits got Princeton on the scoreboard in the third inning to come back from a two-run deficit in the second inning. Noel Gonzales-Luna drove in Tom Boggiano after a single to right field was bobbled giving him an extra base. Sam Mulroy reached on an error by the shortstop to bring Gonzales-Luna home knotting the game at 2-2.
The Quakers gained another run in the top of the fourth but the Tigers grabbed two in the bottom of the inning to take the 4-3 lead. The leadoff hitter Nate Baird singled to left, and shortstop Alex Flink followed up with a double pushing Baird to third. A sac fly by Boggiano scored Baird and moved Flink to third. A single by Gonsales-Luna gave him his second RBI of the game, scoring Flink.
Penn had four hits and scored three in the fifth innning to take a 6-4 lead. Princeton brought Kevin Link to the mound to take over for starting pitcher Davis Palms.
First baseman Josh Mishu had a two-out homerun in the sixth to get the Tigers within one, 6-5. Penn's Tom Grandieri answered in the top of the seventh with his own two-out, two-run homerun.
With the Tigers having one out and two men on, Penn replaced pitcher Todd Roth with Patrick Brennan in the seventh. Brennan gave up two hits and two runs including one on a wild pitch to get Princeton within striking distance. Robbie Seymour was called in for the save, as Princeton had just one out and bases loaded with the tying run on third. Seymour struckout his first batter, walked his second and had his third ground out, leaving the winning run on base.
Penn would score three runs on three hits in the eighth inning and added two runs on three hits in the ninth, while Princeton had two hits in the final two innings, leaving four on base.
Princeton is now 10-24 overall and 5-9 in the Ivy League, while Penn is 18-17 overall and 7-7 in the league. The two teams will meet again tomorrow in a doubleheader beginning at noon.