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Dartmouth Baseball Splits at Harvard
4/28/2006 8:00:00 PM | Baseball
April 29, 2006
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Dartmouth baseball team kept its hopes for a Red Rolfe Division title alive by splitting the doubleheader at Harvard this afternoon, falling in Game One, 2-1, in ten innings before winning the nightcap, 13-8. The Big Green trails the Crimson by one game, needing a sweep in Sunday's doubleheader to qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series.
In the opener, Dartmouth got on the board in the first. Freshman Johnathon Santopadre (Vacaville, Calif.) led off with a single to rightfield. Two outs later, he scored on an RBI single by sophomore Damon Wright (Dallas, Texas).
The Crimson answered with an unearned run in the fifth. Andrew Casey led off with a single and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt before being lifted for a pinch runner. Two batters later, Max Warren scored on a throwing error by senior Tommy Myette (Parrish, Fla.) to knot the game, 1-1.
That would be all the scoring until the 10th. The Big Green had a good chance in the ninth, putting runners on second and third with just one out. But Shawn Haviland got out of the inning by getting Wright to pop out and then, after intentionally walking Myette to load the bases, getting junior Andrew Nacario (Carlsbad, Calif.) to line out softly to first.
The Crimson (19-17-1, 13-5 Ivy) won it in the tenth. Lance Salsgiver led off with a double to left center and advanced to third on a single by Matt Vance. Two batters later, Morgan Brown hit a game-winning single to left field to win the game, 2-1.
Sophomore Kyle Zeis (Solana Beach, Calif.) took the loss to fall to 1-4 on the year. Shawn Haviland (4-5) earned the victory, throwing all 10 innings for Harvard. Sophomore Russell Young (Cleburne, Texas) threw nine innings without allowing an earned run, but settled for a no decision.
In Game Two, Dartmouth got four runs in the first to back senior Josh Faiola (Pueblo, Colo.). The Big Green was aided by three straight walks before freshman Jack Monahan's (Overland Park, Kan.) two-run single made the score, 4-0.
Dartmouth added another in the second on a bloop double down the right field line by Wright to score sophomore Jason Blydell (Nahant, Mass.) to up the lead, 5-0. The Big Green got three more in the fifth on a two-run double by freshman Raymond Allen (Longwood, Fla.) and a sacrifice fly by sophomore Erik Bell (Sierra Madre, Calif.) to make the game, 8-0.
Harvard cut into the lead in the bottom half of the inning. After a sacrifice fly broke-up Faiola's shutout bid, the Crimson added two more on a two-out error by the shortstop to make it a five-run game, 8-3. Harvard got one more in the sixth to make it 8-4.
The Big Green put the game out of reach with five runs in the seventh. Two runs scored on a fielding error by the third basemen, and then Wright drove in two more with a hard hit groundball that took a funny bounce away from the shortstop and into left field for a two-RBI double.
Harvard got two more in each of the seventh and eighth innings to account for the final margin. Faiola (6-2) went eight innings, striking out three while giving up 14 hits. Adam Cole (2-3) took the loss for the Crimson after failing to get out of the first inning.
Dartmouth (18-17, 12-6 Ivy) and Harvard finish up the home-and-home series with a doubleheader at Red Rolfe Field tomorrow. The first pitch is scheduled for 1 p.m.
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