Dartmouth Falls to Boston College in Regular Season Finale

Wednesday, April 30

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

24-15

Boston College

21-24

Boston College

Dartmouth

Dartmouth Falls to Boston College in Regular Season Finale

4/30/2008 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. ? The Dartmouth baseball team wrapped up its 2008 regular season with an 8-5 loss to Boston College on Wednesday afternoon at Red Rolfe Field.

Dartmouth drops to 24-15 on the season, while Boston College improves to 21-24.

Junior Raymond Allen (Longwood, Fla.) led the way for the Big Green with two hits and two runs batted in. Classmate Johnathon Santopadre (Vacaville, Calif.) contributed with two hits of his own, along with an RBI.

After getting down early, the Big Green relievers settled things down, giving up only one run in the final six innings. Sophomore Ben Murray (Grants Pass, Ore.) was first to enter and he went two innings, allowing a run and fanning one. Senior Bobby Steinsdoerfer (Crystal Lake, Ill.), freshman Dan Ternowchek (Glenmoore, Pa.) and senior Kyle Zeis (Solana Beach, Calif.) combined to pitch four innings of shutout ball, allowing just two hits.

Boston College jumped out to an early 7-0 lead after putting up six runs in the second innings, which three of the six were unearned due to misplays by the Big Green. The Eagles had two highlights in the inning with a two-run double from Eric Campbell and a solo homer by Garrett Smith.

Dartmouth got one run back in the bottom of the second as senior co-captain Damon Wright (Dallas, Texas) crushed his team-high eighth homer of the season deep to left center to cut the lead to 7-1.

The Eagles increased the lead to 8-1 in the fifth inning and Dartmouth answered with one of its own on an RBI double to right field from Santopadre. Freshman Brandon Parks (Mission Viejo, Calif.) reached second on a two-base error by the rightfielder and came all the way around to score on the double by Santopadre to make it 8-2 after five.

The Big Green closed the gap in the seventh thanks to back-to-back walks and a hit batsman that loaded the bases for senior Jason Blydell (Nahant, Mass.). Blydell had a productive groundout to score one to make it 8-3, then Allen slapped a single to center field to score two more, but he was gunned out by the catcher as he tried to stretch it to second base.

Dartmouth loaded the bases in the ninth with one out on base hits by senior Jason McManis (Flower Mound, Texas) and freshman Sam Bean (Needham, Mass.) and a walk by junior Kyle Evans (Springfield, Mo.). However, after a strikeout the Big Green grounded out to end the game as Boston College defeated Dartmouth, 8-5.

The Big Green finished off its regular season, but now the postseason begins as Dartmouth hosts Columbia in a best-of-three series for the Ivy League Championship. The series kicks off on Saturday afternoon at 12 p.m. from Red Rolfe Field. Admission is free for all fans and for those who cannot make it Dartmouth will be running free streaming video with an audio feed.