Bellenger's 5-for-5 Day Leads Dartmouth to Victory

Tuesday, April 6

Hanover, N.H.

3:30 p.m.

Dartmouth College

9-10

Williams

9-8

Williams

Dartmouth

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Bellenger's 5-for-5 Day Leads Dartmouth to Victory

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By: Dartmouth

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HANOVER, N.H. — Three Big Green freshmen blasted home runs in the first inning, including Zack Bellenger who finished the day a perfect 5-for-5 at the plate, as Dartmouth won its home opener, 14-4, over Williams College on a misty Tuesday afternoon at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. Chris O'Dowd and Ennis Coble provided the other four-baggers as Dartmouth (9-10) banged out 16 hits in the contest. Pat Barren led the visiting Ephs (9-8) with three hits, one of which cleared the fence in left field for his first home run of the year.

Bellenger banged out four singles to go along with his first collegiate home run to boast the first five-hit game by a Big Green player since current senior Jim Wren accomplished the feat against Columbia in the Ivy Championship Series on May 6, 2008. Coble finished the day 3-for-4 with four RBIs, three coming on his first-inning clout. When Bellenger followed with his four-bagger, it was the first back-to-back blasts since that same game when Nick Santomauro '10 and Mike Pagliarulo '09 turned the trick.

O'Dowd got the scoring starting in the first with a cannon shot over the netting in left field and onto South Park Street. After Ephs starter Harry Marino (0-2) issued a pair of two-out walks, Coble and Bellenger followed with their round-trippers to right for a 5-0 Big Green lead.

Williams came back and scored twice in the second on RBI singles by Jim Entwisle and Stephen Maier. And when Barren drilled a shot into the left-field net in the third, the Ephs were right back in the ball game, trailing by just two runs at 5-3.

Dartmouth tallied a pair of unearned runs in its half of the third, however, as Coble and Bellenger each singled with two down. Both runners scored when Williams fielders threw the ball away twice trying to gun down an aggressive Coble.

In the fourth, the Big Green put three more runs on the board in the fourth, extending their lead to 10-3. Junior Sam Bean beat out a bunt for a single, and when the throw to first sailed down the right-field line, sophomore David Turnbull — who had been hit by a pitch — came all the way around to score. Sophomore Joe Sclafani produced a run-scoring grounder to third before senior Brett Gardner singled and junior Jeff Onstott boomed a triple to deep center to put Dartmouth up by seven.

Coble and Bellenger both poked two-out, RBI singles in the sixth inning, while O'Dowd and Gardner each ripped RBI doubles in the seventh to complete the Dartmouth scoring on the day.

Williams got its final run in the top of the seventh when Andrew Bishop hit a lead-off double and James Allison singled home pinch-runner Darren Hartwell with two outs.

Sophomore Max Langford (1-0), making his first start of the season, earned the victory by hurling the first five frames. He allowed three runs, two earned, on six hits and a pair of walks while striking out three. Junior Dan Ternowchek had a solid three-inning relief stint, yielding just one run on four hits, and sophomore southpaw Marco Mariscal pitched a perfect ninth in his first appearance of the year.

Dartmouth will continue its 12-game homestand tomorrow afternoon against Quinnipiac (3-18) at 3 p.m. Williams returns home tomorrow to host Keene State at 4 p.m.