Big Green Win at Brown, 8-4; Second Game Postponed

Tuesday, April 27

Providence, R.I.

1:00 p.m.

Dartmouth College

20-13, 10-5

Brown

12-26, 9-6

Dartmouth

Brown

Big Green Win at Brown, 8-4; Second Game Postponed

4/27/2010 3:00:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

Boxscore

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The bottom four spots in the Dartmouth lineup scored six runs — one on a double steal — while junior Jason Brooks and freshman Chris O'Dowd both drove in two runs to lead the Big Green to an 8-4 victory in the first game of a rescheduled doubleheader at Brown on Tuesday afternoon. The second game was postponed once again due to rain, and will be played on Wednesday at Murray Stadium at noon. Dartmouth is now 20-13 overall on the season, having won nine of its last 10 games, and improves to 10-5 in the Ivy League to take a one-game lead over the Bears (12-26, 9-6 Ivy) in the Rolfe Division.

Kyle Hendricks (3-4) labored through 5.1 innings, throwing 118 pitches, but persevered to earn his second straight win, while sophomore Cole Sulser retired the final four batters to preserve the victory. Hendricks surrendered all four runs on eight hits with a pair of walks and two strikeouts.

Taking the loss for the Bears was Matt Kimball (1-5), who allowed all eight runs, six earned, on eight hits and five walks while striking out six in 6.1 innings on the mound.

Brown scored in each of the first four innings, but could never put a crooked number on the board. In the first, the Bears took a very short-lived 1-0 advantage when Mike DiBiase battled with one out to draw a 10-pitch walk, and Matt Colantonio doubled to left to drive him home.

Dartmouth got that run right back and then some with a three-spot in the second. Junior Jeff Onstott led off with a walk and scooted to third on a double off the bat of freshman Ennis Coble. Brooks ripped a 1-0 pitch to center for a pair of RBIs and give the Big Green a 2-1 lead. A force out put freshman Zack Bellenger on first, and senior Brett Gardner singled him to third. After a called third strike left Dartmouth one out with which to work, Bellenger and Gardner pulled off a double steal with Bellenger crossing the plate for the third run of the inning.

The Bears tied the games with solitary runs in the second and third frames. Josh Feit singled to start the second and moved to third on a Cody Slaughter double. Hendricks got a strikeout before Chris Tanabe brought home a run with a grounder to first. The damage was limited to that run when Hendricks got a pop to second to end the inning.

Pete Greskoff belted a solo home run — his Ivy-leading 13th of the year — with two outs in the third to tie the game at three.

Again the Big Green responded with a trio of runs, beginning once again with a lead-off walk, this time to Coble. A single by Brooks sent Coble to third, then Brooks stole second. With the infield in, Bellenger's grounder to short could not advance the runners, but Kimball uncorked a wild pitch allowing Coble to score. After Gardner was hit by a pitch and sophomore Joe Sclafani walked to load the bases, sophomore Jake Carlson beat out an infield hit to bring home another run. O'Dowd then walked to force home another run, making it a 6-3 ball game. Kimball escaped without allowing another run by getting a force at the plate and a fly to left.

Brown continued to peck away in the fourth as Feit hit a lead-off triple and scored on a Slaughter single. But again, Dartmouth was able to answer right back with an unearned run in the fifth thanks to a pair of errors. Bellenger reached on a bobbled grounder with two outs, went to third on a single by Gardner and scored when the third baseman could not handle the throw.

In the sixth, the Green added an insurance run — again thanks to an error — as O'Dowd doubled home Carlson for the final run.

Both teams had eight hits in the game, and Slaughter had a perfect day at the plate for Brown, going 3-for-3 with his double and RBI.

If Dartmouth can win the final game of the series tomorrow at noon, it will have a two-game advantage over the Bears heading into the final four games of Ivy play and be tied with Columbia for the best record overall in the league. The team that owns the best record gets to host the three-game Ivy Championship Series on May 8-9.