WESTMINSTER, Md. – J.T. Triantos went
4-for-7 with five runs scored and two RBIs to lead Franklin &
Marshall to a doubleheader sweep of McDaniel in Centennial
Conference (CC) baseball action on Saturday.
The Diplomats (20-13-1, 13-5 CC) took a 12-10 decision in the first
game before tallying 10 runs in the first four innings en route to
a 13-3 victory in the nightcap, completing the sweep.
Justin Reitz (Halifax, Pa./Halifax) and
Zach Croft (Laurel, Md./DeMatha) each had five
hits for the Green Terror (15-15, 7-11 CC) in their final
collegiate games.
Trailing 7-6 after four innings, Franklin & Marshall plated six
runs in the fifth inning to break the game open before holding on
for the game-one win.
Bill Murray led off the frame with a single before
scoring from second on a Russell Tischler one-out
single to even the game at 7-all.
After a throwing error allowed Tischler to advance to third, he
scored on a Triantos single for the go-ahead run.
Matt Will followed with a single to chase starter
Tyler Persun (Mount Joy,
Pa./Donegal). Reliever Danny Snight (Silver
Spring, Md./St. John's College Prep) retired the
first batter he faced for the second out but Shea
Moriarity kept his 2-2 offering just inside the left-field
foul pole for a three-run blast, stretching the lead to
11-7.
A Jason Anderson single and Nick
Rolnick double pushed the lead to 12-7.
Aftr the game's only 1-2-3 inning in the bottom of the fifth,
Harold Baines, Jr. (St. Michaels, Md./St.
Michaels) dropped a one-out single into left field in the
home sixth.
Russell Coover (Schuylkill Haven, Pa./Blue
Mountain and Troy Tipton (Hanover, Pa./South
Western) each drew walks to load the bases before an RBI
groundout from Andrew Worm (Easton, Md./Easton)
and Croft single pulled the hosts within 12-9.
A Kyle Pruitt (Berlin, Md./Stephen Decatur)
pinch-hit home run off the right-field scoreboard to lead off the
bottom of the seventh closed the deficit to 12-10.
Jon Zimmerman (Lemoyne, Pa./Cedar Cliff) followed
with a single to left-center before a fielder's choice and
Coover single put the tying runs on base with two outs but
Brendan McCreary got his second strikeout of the
inning to earn his first save of the year.
Brad Andres pitched the first six to improve to
4-1.
After the Diplomats grabbed an early 1-0 lead with an unearned run
in the top of the first, Zimmerman single to lead off the bottom of
the frame and scored on a Reitz double.
Reitz later scored on a Tipton RBI single to give McDaniel a 2-1
lead.
A Will two-run single in the visitor second gave the Diplomats a
3-2 advantage before the Green Terror countered with three earned
runs keyed by a Coover two-run double for a 5-3 lead.
Two unearned runs in the F&M third evened the game before
taking the lead with an unearned tally in the fourth.
A Coover RBI single in the fourth coupled with a passed ball gave
McDaniel a 7-6 lead.
In game two, Reitz blasted his first home run of the season over
the left-field fence in the bottom of the first to give the Green
Terror a 1-0 lead.
An Anderson two-run double in the visitor second keyed a five-run
frame before Moriarty stepped up in with the bases loaded in the
third and used a double to right to clear the bags to cap a
four-run frame.
A John Dutton double plated Eric
Bornstein in the fourth to push the lead to
10-1.
Playing in his final collegiate game, Zimmerman led off the bottom
of the sixth with his first career home run – a solo shot to
right field.
An Anderson three-run double in the seventh stretched the lead to
13-2 before a two-out error allowed McDaniel to score one in the
bottom of the ninth to set the final margin.
Score by Inning – Game
One
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 -
R H
E
Franklin & Marshall (19-13-1, 12-5
CC) 1
2 2
1 6
0 0
- 12
13 1
McDaniel (15-14, 7-10
CC)
2 3
0 2
0 2
1 -
10 15 8
Brad Andres, Brendan McCreary (7) and Russell Tischler; Tyler
Persun,
Danny Snight (5) and
Justin Reitz. WP: Andres (4-1). LP:
Persun (5-4). S: McCreary (1). SO-BB: Andres 3-5, McCreary 2-0;
Persun 1-4, Snight 2-0. 2B: Andrew Hanson (F), Nick Rolnick (F),
Justin Reitz (M),
Harold Baines, Jr. (M),
Russell Coover (M). HR:
Shea Moriarty (F),
Kyle Pruitt (M).
Score by Inning – Game
One
1 2
3 4
5 6
7 8
9 -
R H E
Franklin & Marshall (20-13-1, 13-5
CC) 0
5 4
1 0
0 3
0 0
- 13
12 2
McDaniel (15-15, 7-11
CC)
1 0
0 0
0 1
0 0
1 -
3 7 2
Nick Markel, Mike Ham (9) and John Dutton;
Chase Wolf, Dustin
Knox (3),
Ryan Graves (3),
Joe Drzonsc (7) and
Justin Reitz. WP:
Markel (5-1). LP: Wolf (0-1). S: none. SO-BB: Markel 8-2, Ham 1-0;
Wolf 2-6, Knox 0-1, Graves 3-0, Drzonsc 0-0. 2B: Shea Moriarty (F),
Jason Anderson 2 (F), John Dutton 2 (F),
Zach Croft (M). HR: Jon
Zimmerman (M),
Justin Reitz (M).
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