Dartmouth and Brown Split Baseball Doubleheader

April 17, 2004

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. - After losing the opener on a walk-off home run, Dartmouth rebounded for a 6-3 win in game two and earned a split of an Ivy League baseball doubleheader with Brown Saturday.

The Big Green (15-10, 7-3) dropped the first game to the Bears (10-15, 7-3), 4-2, in nine innings.

In the first game, both teams starting pitchers were dominant. Dartmouth's Thomas Myette scored an unearned run on a Brian Zurhellen single in the top of the first, and the lead held at 1-0 until the bottom of the seventh.

Dartmouth senior Pat Dowling surrendered just four hits in six scoreless innings for the Big Green. Dowling induced 12 ground ball outs, with the biggest coming on his final pitch. With runners on first and second and one out, Brown's Bobby Wiginton grounded into a 6-4-3 double play to end the inning.

Brown's Sam Jennings went seven innings and allowed just one run and four hits. In the bottom of the seventh, Dartmouth closer Nick Peay ran into trouble. Brown's Robert Deeb doubled, but Peay struck out the next two hitters. However, Jeff Nichols laced a double to right the field to tie the score at 1-1 and send the game to extra innings.

The Big Green took the lead in the ninth. Scott Shirrell beat out a potential double play ball to score Josh Bailey from third and give Dartmouth a 2-1 edge.

Brown led off the bottom of the ninth with back-to-back bunt singles. With two runners on and one out, Brown's Devin Thomas hit Peay's pitch for an opposite field home run to left center for a 4-2 Bears victory.

Peay fell to 0-1 with the loss. Brown's Ethan Burton picked up the win.

Dartmouth jumped ahead in the first inning in game two. After Myette and Ed Lucas reached base, Jeff Speights slammed a three-run home run to left for a 3-0 lead. In the second, Will Bashelor reached second on an error and came around to score on a wild pitch for a 4-0 Dartmouth lead.

The Big Green held at least a three-run lead the rest of the game. Brown cut the lead to 4-1 on a solo home run by Nichols in the third. Speights drove in a run to make the score 5-1 in the fifth before Brown made the score 5-2 in the bottom of the frame on a Paul Christian home run.

The teams also exchanged single runs in the seventh. Lucas drove in a run with a single to make the score 6-2 before Brown answered with the final run of the game.

Sophomore Josh Faiola threw a complete game and won his third straight Ivy League start for the Big Green. He allowed just three runs, two earned, and struck out six. Faiola improved to 4-1 overall and 3-0 in conference games.

Lucas was 4-for-5 in game two and 5-for-9 on the day to raise his average to .491. Speights went 3-for-4 with a run and four RBI in the second game.

The same two teams square off in a doubleheader Sunday at noon at Brown.

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