Dartmouth's Late Rally Falls Short in Loss to Akron

Monday, March 17

Bradenton, Fla.

10:00 AM

Dartmouth College

3-4

Akron

10-7

Dartmouth

Akron

Dartmouth's Late Rally Falls Short in Loss to Akron

3/17/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

BRADENTON, Fla. - Four runs over the final three innings wasn't enough for the Big Green, as Akron's Jake Plata's run scoring single in the sixth inning was the difference in the Zips' 6-5 victory over Dartmouth today.

Four different Akron pitchers managed to hold off another strong day at the plate for the Big Green. One day after totaling twenty five hits in two games, Dartmouth pounded out twelve hits.

Locked in a 1-1 tie, Akron pushed across three runs on four hits in the fourth. Vince Chiera and Brian Kordal opened the frame with back-to-back hits before catcher John Turk lifted his first homerun of the season to right field. Solo runs crossed the plate in each of the next two innings off of senior starter Chase Carpenter (Bartlett, Tenn.) (5.2 IP, 10 hits, 4 SO).

With a deficit of 6-1 in the seventh, Dartmouth responded with three runs to jump back in the game. Sophomore Jim Wren (Granbury, Texas) and freshman Jeff Onstott (Houston, Texas) coaxed consecutive singles before senior third baseman Jason McManis (Flower Mound, Texas) singled sharply up the middle to plate a pair of runs. Junior catcher Kyle Evans (Springfield, Mo.) followed that up with yet another hit before senior Jason Blydell's (Nahant, Mass.) single to right field capped off the five hit, three-run inning.

One inning later, Dartmouth mounted another rally off of Akron reliever Ryne Romick. With sophomore Nick Santomauro (North Caldwell, N.J.) on first via a walk, sophomore outfielder Brett Gardner (Bellevue, Wash.) singled to center field and senior pinch hitter Damon Wright (Dallas, Texas) drove in the team's fifth and final run of the day with a single through the left side of the infield. But that would be the end of the scoring on the afternoon for Dartmouth, as Akron's (10-7) Drew Tuorcy recorded his first save of the season.