Big Green Pull Out Wild 13-10 Win at Vermont

Tuesday, April 21

Burlington, Vt.

3:30 p.m.

Dartmouth College

20-11

Vermont

10-22

Dartmouth

Vermont

4/21/2009 6:15:00 PM | Baseball

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By: Dartmouth

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BURLINGTON, Vt. ? Junior Brett Gardner (Bellevue, Wash.) came off the bench to deliver an RBI pinch-single in the eighth inning to lift Dartmouth to a wild 13-10 win over host Vermont on Tuesday afternoon. Senior Ray Allen (Longwood, Fla.) was just a double shy of hitting for the cycle for the Big Green (20-11), which won for the 19th time in their last 21 games and scored in double figures for the fourth straight contest.

Vermont (10-22) was led by shortstop Matt Duffy and catcher Mike McCarthy, each of whom hit home runs and combined for seven RBIs.

Trailing 10-9 entering the eighth, freshman Jake Carlson (Woodlands, Texas) got the inning started with a base hit. A grounder to second put Carlson in scoring position, but Owen Ozanich (0-2) got the second out on strikes. Sophomore Jason Brooks (Westlake Village, Calif.) drew a walk before Allen came through with a single to bring Carlson home from second base and tie the score at 10. Gardner was then sent to the plate to hit, and hit he did with a single through the hole on the right side to give the Big Green the lead.

In the ninth, senior Kyle Evans (Springfield, Mo.) hit a leadoff single and was bunted to second before freshman Joe Sclafani (Palm City, Fla.) was intentionally walked with two outs. Junior Jim Wren (Granbury, Texas) foiled the strategy, however, when he stroked a two-out, two-run double for a couple of insurance runs.

The Catamounts had rallied from deficits of three and five runs earlier in the game. In the bottom of the seventh, they found themselves in a three-run hole at 9-6, but Dartmouth reliever Max Langford (Fairfax, Va.) walked the leadoff hitter. After an error put runners at first and second, Duffy pulled a single through the left side of the infield to score a run. McCarthy followed with a three-run blast, his sixth of the year, to give Vermont its first lead of the game.

Dartmouth had its own dramatic home run in the top half of the seventh. With the score tied at six, Brooks walked and Allen was hit by a pitch, but after consecutive strikeouts, it looked as if they would die on the bases. Head coach Bob Whalen sent the Ivy League's leading hitter, junior Nick Santomauro (North Caldwell, N.J.) to the plate, and he did not disappoint by cranking a three-run bomb, his eighth of the year.

Sophomore Colin Britton (Poughquag, N.Y.) had allowed just a solo homer and a harmless single through the first four innings before Vermont roughed him up for five in the fifth ? two of which were unearned. Back-to-back singles by Eric Fredette and Dave Soltis to put runners on first and second with nobody out. Britton fanned Justin Milo before Corey Moylan shot an RBI double to center. Duffy followed with a two-run single, and on an infield single by McCarthy, the attempted throw to first got away and allowed Duffy to score and McCarthy to scurry to third. Tom Kelly's sacrifice fly knotted the game at six.

The Big Green had built up a 6-1 lead through four and a half innings, and put two on the board right away. The first run came on a solo home run off the bat of senior Johnathon Santopadre (Vacaville, Calif.), his second, with one out in the first. One out later, Brooks singled and Allen tripled him home.

Duffy got one of those runs back in the bottom half when he belted his ninth round-tripper of the season.

In the third, Dartmouth got three unearned runs thanks to a pair of Catamount errors. Wren reached on a bobbled ball and Brooks singled again to get things started. With one out, freshman David Turnbull (St. Louis, Mo.) pulled a double into the right-field corner to score Wren, and Brooks scored when junior Ezra Josephson (Key West, Fla.) reached on an error. Sophomore Brandon Parks lofted a sacrifice fly to make it a 5-1 game.

Allen's seventh home run of the season came on the first pitch he saw with one out in the fifth for a five-run Dartmouth bulge before Vermont tied the game in the bottom half.

Langford (1-1) got his first collegiate victory in relief of Britton, who struck out a career-high eight batters in his six innings of work.

Allen went 3-for-4 with a triple, homer and three RBIs, while Brooks singled twice, walked twice and scored four times, the most by a Big Green player in a game this year.

Duffy had three of Vermont's 11 hits, scoring three runs and driving in four. McCarthy was 2-for-4 with three RBIs coming on his long ball.

The Big Green lead the Rolfe Division of the Ivy League by two games over Brown and are looking to clinch division title in the final weekend of conference play when they host Harvard on Saturday at 1 p.m. Dartmouth president James Wright and members of the Biondi family will throw out ceremonial first pitches to commemorate the dedication of the school's new Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, which will take place on Friday at 3 p.m.

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Team Stats

Pitching:

W: Langford, Max (1-1)

L: Ozanich, Owen (0-2)

S: Ternowchek, Dan (2)

Dartmouth

Batting:

2B: Wren, Jim 1 ; Turnbull, David 1

3B: Allen, Ray 1

HR: Santopadre, Johnathon 1 ; Allen, Ray 1 ; Santomauro, Nick 1

RBI: Santopadre, Johnathon 1 ; Wren, Jim 2 ; Allen, Ray 3 ; Turnbull, David 1 ; Gardner, Brett 1 ; Josephson, Ezra 1 ; Parks, Brandon 1 ; Santomauro, Nick 3

SH: Bean, Sam 1

SF: Parks, Brandon 1

Base Running:

RUNS: Carlson, Jake 1 ; Santopadre, Johnathon 1 ; Sclafani, Joe 1 ; Wren, Jim 1 ; Brooks, Jason 4 ; Allen, Ray 2 ; Turnbull, David 1 ; Santomauro, Nick 1 ; Evans, Kyle 1