Dartmouth Goes Down in Distant Doubleheader

Saturday, March 21

Los Angeles, Calif.

1:00 PM

Dartmouth College

1-11

Cal State Northridge

19-5

Dartmouth

Cal State Northridge

3/21/2015 9:37:00 PM | Baseball

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By: Dartmouth

LOS ANGELES/SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Dartmouth played an unusual doubleheader on Friday as the two games took place approximately 95 miles apart. But the difference in locales did nothing to help the Big Green's fortunes as they fell to Cal State Northridge in the first game, 7-1, before the 16th-ranked UC Santa Barbara Gauchos handed them a 17-2 defeat to complete the day.

The Matadors (19-5) scored in each of the five innings that senior starter Chris England (0-1) was on the mound in his season debut. Chester Pak scored the lone run in the first when he singled, scooted to third on an errant pickoff attempt and scored on Ryan Raslowsky's fly to left.

In the second, CSUN put an unearned run on the board thanks to a two-base error, a grounder to second and a wild pitch. Yusuke Akitoshi delivered an RBI single in the third to plate Nolan Bumstead, who had singled for one of his three hits in the game. A leadoff walk to Elias Orona in the fourth led to another run without the aid of a hit, eventually provided by Pak with a sacrifice fly. The Matadors then loaded the bases in the fifth before Orona came through with a two-out, two-run single back through the box for a 6-0 lead.

Meanwhile, Cal State Northridge hurler Andrew Weston (1-0) mostly cruised through his seven innings on the mound, surrendering just five hits and one walk. Three times he retired the side in order, and only twice did he find any real trouble. Dartmouth loaded the bases with two outs in the third on consecutive singles by the top of the order in Matt Parisi, Ben Socher and Joe Purritano, only to have Weston get a swinging strike three on a full-count pitch to end the inning unscathed. And when the Big Green put the first two runners on base in the seventh on a walk and an error, the right-hander induced a double-play grounder and finished with a flourish with his sixth strikeout.

The final Matador run came in the seventh on an Albee Weiss RBI single to left. But that was the only tally reliever Adam Charnin-Aker allowed in three innings while striking out three.

The Big Green avoided the shutout in the ninth with the help of a CSUN error leading off the inning. With one out, junior Nick Ruppert yanked a pitch into the left-field corner and hustled for an RBI triple. But he was left standing there as reliever Ray Lambert closed out the game with a strikeout and a grounder to short.

Cal State Northridge collected 13 safeties on the day but just one extra-base hit — a double off the bat of Bumstead — and harassed the Dartmouth battery with six stolen bases, including two by Akitoshi and Justin Toerner apiece.

By the time Dartmouth arrived at UCSB's Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, the Gauchos (15-6) had already played 11 innings themselves, having defeated UT Arlington by a 2-1 final. The extra-inning affair did nothing to slow their bats, however, as they pounded out 25 hits to score the most runs against the Big Green since UC Irvine put 17 on the board nearly three years ago to the day.

The game began well as senior Nick Lombardi laced a double in the first to score Socher who had singled to lead off the contest. But the tide turned quickly in the second when UCSB started the stanza with a pair of infield hits before Paddy O'Brien walloped a three-run four-bagger to left, his first of the year. Woody Woodward tacked on an RBI single and another run crossed the plate when a ground ball was booted, leaving the Gauchos with a 5-1 lead.

The third was a carbon copy of sorts as UC Santa Barbara pushed across five more runs. Clay Fisher and Andrew Calica cashed in with back-to-back RBI doubles before J.D. Hearn, Robby Nesovic and Kyle Plantier all drove in runs with base hits, making it a 10-1 game.

After Calica and Hearn each drove in another run in the fourth, Socher provided the other Dartmouth run with a two-out RBI single to score freshman Justin Fowler, who was hit by a pitch to start the fifth.

O'Brien produced his third hit with a two-run double in the seventh, and Austin Bush drove in one run in eighth with a two-bagger before Scott Quinlan concluded the scoring with a two-run long ball, his first.

Quinlan led the Gaucho offense by going 4-for-6 with three runs and two RBIs, while O'Brien drove in five runs with his three knocks. Six other hitters had at least two hits, including Cameron Newell with three.

Domenic Mazza (2-0) was the recipient of all the run support, picking up the win with six innings of two-run ball on four hits and a walk with six strikeouts.

Taking the loss was freshman southpaw Marc Bachman (0-1), who was making his collegiate starting debut, as he was roughed up for 10 runs in three innings.

Dartmouth will play its third doubleheader in as many days tomorrow when it takes on UT Arlington in a neutral site game at 11 a.m. (PDT), before trying its luck with host UC Santa Barbara one more time at 3 p.m.