Dartmouth Gets Swept By Brown

Saturday, April 14

Providence, R.I. (New Location)

12:00 PM

Dartmouth College

5-18-1, 2-7

Brown

11-14, 6-3

Brown

Dartmouth

4/14/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2

By: Dartmouth

Game One Boxscore

Game Two Boxscore

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – In the Big Greens first Red Rolfe Division games, the Brown Bears came out victorious in both games Saturday's doubleheader in Providence, Rhode Island. Dartmouth dropped the first match-up, 20-2, and the second, 10-3.

Brown jumped out to an early lead in the top of the first scoring three runs, two of them being unearned, giving the Bears the quick lead.

Erik Bell (Sierra Madre, Calif.) led off Dartmouth's first at bats knocking a double over the center fielder, followed by James Wren (Granbury, Texas) going yard off the scoreboard in right field to record his first collegiate home run.

Little did the Big Green know that those two runs would be the only marks of the day.

Brown starting pitcher, Jeff Dietz, settled down after the blast by Wren, as he struck out the next three batters to get out of the first inning with his team still leading, 3-2.

The Bears consistently kept putting up the runs throughout the day, scoring at least one run in every inning, and finishing with 20 at the end of the seven-inning game.

Dietz threw a complete game for the Bears, going seven innings and giving up only five hits and striking out 11 Big Green batters, capping off a 20-2 win.

Robert Young (Cleburne, Texas), Chase Carpenter (Bartlett, Tenn.) and Bobby Steinsdoerfer (Crystal Lake, Ill.) combined for five strikeouts, giving up 18 hits and 13 earned runs.

Big Dartmouth right-hander, Jeff Wilkerson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), looked to erase the thought of the last game, with his pitching in Game Two. But Brown hurler James Cramphin also came out flying.

The Bears put the first mark on the board again in the second contest, as a sacrifice fly in the third gave Brown the, 1-0, lead.

Dietz, who plays first base and bats when not on the mound, added another run for Brown in the fourth, when he took a Wilkerson pitch deep over the center field wall for a solo shot. Two batters later, Bryan Tews, took Wilkerson deep to left field, and then Dan Shapiro, the next batter, hit a solo shot to right field. The three homer runs in four batters extended the Bears lead to 4-0.

Wilkerson, who hit the next batter, would give up another run later in the inning on a double down the right field line, pushing the Brown lead up to 5-0.

Jason Blydell (Nahant, Mass.) would give Dartmouth its first run of the game in the bottom of the fourth, after he hit an RBI-single into right field, scoring Wren.

Brown went on to score five more runs in the second half of the game and allowed only two for the Big Green to capture the sweep with a 10-3 win in Game Two.

With the two losses, the Big Green now fall to 5-19-1 and 2-8 in the Ivy League, while Brown increases to 12-14, with a 7-3 mark in the Ivies.

The Big Green will try to get their first home game in on Tuesday, April 17, when they host the University of Vermont at Red Rolfe Field.

NOTE: Due to projected rain, Sunday's doubleheader against the Bears has been postponed. A make-up date has not yet been determined.