Pitching, Defense Shine in 2-0 Loss to Boston College

Tuesday, April 7

Hanover, N.H.

3:00 PM

Dartmouth College

6-19

BOSTON COLLEGE

14-16

Boston College

Dartmouth

Pitching, Defense Shine in 2-0 Loss to Boston College

4/7/2015 5:19:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

By: Dartmouth

HANOVER, N.H. — Four Boston College pitchers limited Dartmouth to two infield hits and the Eagles scratched out a pair of runs to defeat the host Big Green on Tuesday afternoon in a mere hour and 47 minutes, 2-0. Chris Shaw had three of the five hits for Boston College (14-16) and scored both runs while Dartmouth (6-19) did not have a runner advance past first base.

Left-hander Nick Poore (1-3) earned his first victory of the year by hurling five scoreless frames with three strikeouts while yielding one hit and one walk, both in the first inning. But he induced a double play between the two and retired the last 13 batters he faced, finishing up his day's work in 50 pitches.

Big Green right-hander Chris England, who was 2-0 in his two career starts against Boston College entering the game, was nearly as effective as he surrendered just an unearned run through the first six stanzas. Shaw led off the second with a base hit to center, then took second on passed ball. Donovan Casey bunted Shaw over to third, and Stephen Sauter brought him home with a grounder to second for a 1-0 Eagle lead.

While Poore was setting down the Dartmouth bats in order, England matched him with goose eggs on the board, allowing just two more base runners through the sixth. Luke Fernandes came on to pitch in the bottom half and extended the streak of outs to 16 with three quick outs.

In the seventh, Shaw led off by pulling a ball through the shift on the right side of the infield for a base hit. England (0-2) then recorded his career-high fourth strikeout of the afternoon before being lifted with 82 pitches on his ledger. Sauter greeted sophomore right-hander Chris Burkholder with a base hit, and Joe Cronin delivered an RBI double into the left-field corner to put BC up 2-0. With runners on second and third and one out, Burkholder managed to fire a third strike past Logan Hoggarth for the second out, then got a liner to Nick Ruppert in center to end the inning.

The Big Green got their second hit when freshman Dustin Shirley chopped a slow roller toward short and beat it out for a single to start the Dartmouth half of the seventh. But Fernandes, like Poore before him, induced a double-play grounder to short, quickly ending the threat.

Senior southpaw Adam Frank held the Eagles scoreless in the eighth and ninth, while Jesse Adams and John Nicklas did the same for BC with the latter earning his third save with a perfect ninth.

Dartmouth is back in action tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. when it travels to Worcester, Massachusetts, to take on Holy Cross (13-16), which is playing Yale this evening. Boston College will play its home opener at Pellagrini Diamond at Shea Field tomorrow when it hosts Northeastern (11-19) in the Beanpot Tournament at 3 p.m.

Notes: The Big Green have been shut out in three of their last five games and have been held scoreless for the past 19 innings … over the last 10 games, the Dartmouth pitchers have posted an ERA of 2.80 while the fielders have a fielding percentage of .989 (only four errors).