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3/17/2010 1:00:00 PM | Baseball
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Spring Trip to Florida
• While the first 19 Big Green games are outside of Hanover, 11 of those contests come during the spring trip to Florida, and the first eight of which are part of the RussMat Central Florida Invitational beginning with the Bucknell Bison on Wednesday afternoon.
• Last year Dartmouth took a trip to California, dropping seven of its eight games on the West Coast.
• The last time the Green were in Florida was 2008 when they went 3-6 on the trek with wins over Central Connecticut, Army and Northwestern.
• Dartmouth won its season opener for the second time in the last three years, both of which were one-run games. Senior Jim Wren stroked a one-out, walk-off double in the ninth to plate Jake Carlson for a 3-2 win over Wright State.
• Senior Robert Young did not get a decision in the victory despite tossing one-run ball over six innings with five strikeouts.
• Dartmouth is now 11-10 in season openers under head coach Bob Whalen.
• Whalen needs just seven more victories to become Dartmouth's all-time winningest baseball coach. Former big league hurler Jeff Tesreau is the leader with 383 triumphs in 28 seasons (1919-46).
• After the win over Wright State, the Big Green took on top-ranked Virginia twice, dropping 14-3 and 11-5 contests to the Cavaliers.
• While the Wahoos put double digits in the runs column in both games, freshman left-hander Michael Johnson provided three scoreless innings of relief in his collegiate debut.
Taking on Number One
Dartmouth got an early test for the 2010 season when it played at top-ranked Virginia twice during the Big Green's first weekend of play. Last year the Green played two games against ranked opponents as well — losing 14-9 to #12 Cal Poly and 5-2 to #7 North Carolina, the latter in an NCAA Regional. The last Dartmouth victory over a ranked team came at #21 Pepperdine, 3-2, on March 17, 2006.
Top of the Order Doing Its Job
In the first three games, the first three hitters in the lineup — Jake Carlson, Ennis Coble and Joe Sclafani — have set the table nicely with a combined on-base percentage of .463. The trio, not surprisingly, has scored eight of the team's 11 runs, while Sclafani is the only player on the team to have hit safely in all three contests.
Denying with Defense
Miscues in the field were rare during the first weekend of play as Dartmouth committed just one error in the three games for a sparkling .990 fielding percentage. The opposition was nearly as good with three errors for a percentage of .975.
Getting Wildness Out of the Way
A year after leading the country in fewest walks per nine innings, Dartmouth did have some wildness issues in the first game against Virginia. Ben Murray walked four batters in three innings after entering his final year averaging fewer than two free passes per nine innings. And Dan Ternowchek walked to batters after not throwing four balls to one single hitter in 28 innings last year.
Wren Walk-Off Wonder
Senior Jim Wren helped Dartmouth pull out an exciting 3-2 win in the season opener against Wright State on March 6 with a walk-off double to break a 2-2 tie. It was the first walk-off win for the Big Green since a 12-inning, 10-9 triumph over Vermont on April 22, 2008, and it was Wren who delivered the winning hit in that game, too.
• Head coach Bob Whalen has had 31 walk-off wins in his 20-plus seasons at Dartmouth.
• He had five in 1991 and four in one week in 1992.
• Yale has been victimized the most with five.
• Of the last five, three came against Vermont, which dropped baseball after last spring.
Young Déjà Vu
Senior captain Robert Young was named the Ivy League Pitcher of the Week after the first week of competition for his six-inning outing in the 3-2 win over Wright State. Although he did not earn the victory, he allowed just one run on five hits and one walk while fanning five and left with a 2-1 lead. The eerie thing about him earning the award is that his brother, Russell '08, also took home the award as Dartmouth's senior captain after the first week of competition, just two years ago in 2008.
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