Dartmouth On Wrong End of 14-9 Slugfest at #12 Cal Poly

Wednesday, March 25

San Luis Obisbo, Calif.

9:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

1-9

Cal Poly

17-4

Dartmouth

Cal Poly

Dartmouth On Wrong End of 14-9 Slugfest at #12 Cal Poly

3/25/2009 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

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By: Dartmouth

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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. ? The Dartmouth bats continued their spring thaw, banging out a season-high 19 hits while freshman Joe Sclafani (Palm City, Fla.) drove in four runs, but the offense was not enough against 12th-ranked Cal Poly on Wednesday evening at Baggett Stadium in a 14-9 defeat. The Mustangs (17-4) scored in each of the eight innings they came to the plate while amassing 20 hits against four Big Green pitchers. No less than 13 Dartmouth (1-9) batters had at least one hit in the contest.

Senior Ray Allen (Longwood, Fla.) led the Big Green offensive assault with three singles, while Sclafani, seniors Johnathon Santopadre (Vacaville, Calif.) and Mike Pagliarulo (Winchester, Mass.), and sophomore Sam Bean (Needham, Mass.) each collected two.

But the big bat of the night was that of Adam Buschini for Cal Poly as he went 4-for-5 with a double, two runs and three RBIs. Lead-off hitter Ryan Lee had three hits, three runs and three stolen bases on the night, while Wes Dorrell rapped out three hits, and D.J. Gentile belted his second homer of the year and drove in four runs.

The night started well for Dartmouth as junior Jim Wren (Granbury, Texas) stroked a two-out RBI single in the first to score sophomore Jeff Onstott (Houston, Texas), who had walked to reach base.

Cal Poly countered with two runs of its own in the bottom half off sophomore southpaw Colin Britton (0-2) before the Big Green knotted the score at two in the second. Sclafani started things off with a single, advanced to second on a grounder, then came home when fellow rookie Jake Carlson (Woodlands, Texas) sent a single to left-center.

Again the Mustangs came back with two runs, both being unearned. A two-base error with one out set up Lee's RBI single. Bobby Crocker then drew a walk and the pair pulled off a double steal, and Lee trotted home on a Matt Jensen liner to center that Carlson tracked down for a sacrifice fly.

Gentile opened the third with a long home run to left. The blast was followed by a Luke Yoder double and Adam Buschini run-scoring single. Buschini stole second and scampered home on a seeing-eye grounder through the left side off the bat of J.J. Thompson, giving Cal Poly a 7-2 lead.

Two more Mustang runs in the fourth made it 9-2 before Dartmouth started to claw its way back into the game. Nick Santomauro (North Caldwell, N.J.) opened the fifth with a single and went to third on a Pagliarulo double, his team-best fifth of the year. After a one-out walk to the scorching hot Allen, Sclafani ripped a three-run double to left, his first career extra-base hit.

Again Cal Poly scored twice in its half, thanks in part to Lee's speed. His double with one down set up his steal of third as Jensen walked with two out. A wild pitch allowed both runners to move up with Lee scoring, then Dorrell doubled home Jensen for an 11-5 advantage.

Buschini's RBI double in the sixth made it 12-5, but Dartmouth got that run back in the seventh. The Big Green loaded the bases with nobody out, but could only push across one run on a sacrifice fly by senior Jack Monahan (Overland Park, Kan.). In the bottom half, the Mustangs scored once more, as Gentile singled home Jensen, who had doubled.

Yet Dartmouth would still not give in, tacking on three in the eighth. Junior Ezra Josephson (Key West, Fla.) led off with a pinch-double and scored on a double from senior Kyle Evans (Springfield, Mo.). Sophomore Jason Brooks (Westlake Village, Calif.) singled Evans to third and Bean roped an RBI single to right. After a pitching change, Allen singled to load the bases, but again the Green could only muster one run after loading the bases with nobody out on a Sclafani grounder to first.

The Mustangs' Kyle Smith completed the scoring in the eighth with a grounder past the shortstop in the hole to score Buschini from second.

Picking up the victory for Cal Poly was reliever Buster Mueller (1-1), who gave up four runs in 2.2 innings on seven hits and a walk, but he did strike out four Dartmouth hitters. Starter Kyle Anderson couldn't quite make it through five innings to get credit for the win as he yielded five runs on 10 hits and three walks in just 4.1 innings. Mark DeVincenzi tossed two scoreless innings for the Mustangs to end the game.

Dartmouth returns to the East Coast following its eight-game trip in California, opening up Ivy play on Saturday with a noon doubleheader at Penn. Cal Poly also begins conference play in the Big West, traveling to UC Irvine for a three-game series starting Friday night at 6 p.m. (PDT).

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Mueller, Buster (1-1)

L: Britton, Colin (0-2)

Dartmouth

Batting:

2B: Josephson, Ezra 1 ; Evans, Kyle 1 ; Pagliarulo, Mike 1 ; Sclafani, Joe 1

RBI: Evans, Kyle 1 ; Wren, Jim 1 ; Bean, Sam 1 ; Sclafani, Joe 4 ; Monahan, Jack 1 ; Carlson, Jake 1

SF: Monahan, Jack 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Onstott, Jeff 1 ; Josephson, Ezra 1 ; Santomauro, Nick 1 ; Evans, Kyle 1 ; Pagliarulo, Mike 1 ; Brooks, Jason 1 ; Bean, Sam 1 ; Allen, Ray 1 ; Sclafani, Joe 1