Box Score THE FACTS
Dickinson (20-14, 8-7 CC) 20, McDaniel (19-18, 4-11 CC) 10
What: Centennial Conference (CC) baseball game
When: Tuesday, Apr. 26
Where: Westminster, Md.
THE SKINNY
Dickinson scored nine runs in the top of the first inning as part of a 20-10 win over McDaniel.
THE LEADERS
• T.J. McGuire (Blue Point, N.Y./Bayport-Blue Point) led the Green Terror with two hits and three RBIs.
FOR THE FOES
• Luke Jackson led the Red Devils with four hits and four RBIs.
• Pat Harrington was also 4-for-6 on the day.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Five singles and three walks set the table for a nine-run first inning for Dickinson. Tom Gannaway capped the big opening frame with a three-run home run.
• Shane Daly (Haddon Heights, N.J./Haddon Heights) led off the bottom of the inning before scoring on a Joey Hubinger (West Milford, N.J./West Milford) double. A Jake Smith (Washington, N.J./Warren Hills) added a sacrifice fly to score Hubinger and make it a 9-2 game.
• Three straight two-out singles from Hubinger, Austin Goudeaux (Elkton, Md./Bohemia Manor), and Smith made it 9-3 in the third.
• Back-to-back doubles from Lukas Atsalis and Gannaway keyed a five-run fourth inning that pushed the lead to 14-3.
• Connor Uhrig (Sinking Spring, Pa./Wilson) and T.J. McGuire started the bottom of the frame with back-to-back doubles before a Tyler Yohn (Dillsburg, Pa./Northern) sacrifice fly made it 14-5.
• Singles from Atsalis and Luke Jackson in the sixth added a single run before Kaden Sigmon led off the seventh with a home run, sparking another three-run inning that stretched the advantage to 18-5.
• Dickinson tacked on single runs in the eighth and ninth before McDaniel scored five in the bottom of the ninth. Jarod Pezzano (Stevensville, Md./Kent Island) singled before Santino DeFilippo (Shelton, Conn./Shelton drew a walk. Three straight two-out singles from Jack Bayne (Lutherville, Md./Towson), Uhrig, and McGuire made it 20-8. A wild pitch on a Hunter Kelly (Marlton, N.J./King's Christian School) walk and Daly single set the final margin.
THE INSIDE STORY
• Four other Dickinson players had three hits as part of a 26-hit afternoon for the Red Devils.
• Shane Daly added three hits while Joey Hubinger, Austin Goudeaux, and Jake Smith all had two hits each.
NEXT UP
McDaniel concludes the home-and-home series at Dickinson on Friday. Game time is 3:30 p.m.
