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Wednesday, March 28
Hanover, N.H.
3:00 PM
Dartmouth College
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Home Opener Features 17 Hits in an 11-4 Victory
3/28/2018 6:06:00 PM | Baseball
HANOVER, N.H. — The Dartmouth baseball team sure was happy to finally play at home this season as every starter had at least one hit, led by senior Dustin Shirley's 3-for-6 with a homer and a pair of RBIs to lift the Big Green (4-12) to an 11-4 victory over Quinnipiac (8-14) at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park on Wednesday afternoon. Dartmouth (4-12) banged out a season-high 17 hits in all in ending a six-game skid, while extending the Bobcats' losing streak to eight.
Among those 17 hits were two doubles, two triples — the first two for the team this year — and two long balls as the Big Green collected 29 total bases, also a season best. Senior Kyle Holbrook matched Shirley with three hits, while juniors Sean Sullivan and Nate Ostmo, sophomore Michael Calamari and freshman Bennett McCaskill each had a pair of knocks. But it was sophomore Blake Crossing who reached base the most often, going 1-for-1 with four free passes, the first Dartmouth hitter to walk four times in a game in six years.
It was Quinnipiac who struck first on this day, however, as Dylan Lutz began the game by walking, stealing second and scoring on a double into the left-field corner off the bat of Evan Vulgamore. Senior starter Jack Fossand settled in from there with a little help from his catcher, McCaskill, who gunned down Vulgamore trying to steal third.
The 1-0 Bobcat lead was short-lived as Sullivan led off the bottom of the first with a triple into the left-center gap then scored three batters later on a chopper to short that was too slow to turn an inning-ending double play. Calamari followed with a booming triple to right-center, and senior Justin Fowler then turned around an 0-1 fastball into the netting above the left-field fence for a two-run blast, his second of the year.
The hits kept coming in the second as Crossing led off with a single and McCaskill reached on a bunt single. Junior Matt Feinstein brought Crossing home two batters later with a deep sacrifice fly to center, and an errant throw on a force play at second allowed another run to cross the plate to make it a 6-1 game after two innings.
Meanwhile, Fossand and sophomore reliever Austen Michel were making quick work of the Quinnipiac hitters, retiring 11 in a row to get through the fourth frame.
Shirley jumped on a 1-2 pitch with one down in the Big Green half of the fourth for his second four-bagger of the season, opening the floodgates as Ostmo, McCaskill and Sullivan each had RBI hits to boost the lead to 10-1.
The Bobcats got two back in the fifth on a two-run homer onto Park Street off the bat of Ben Gibson, his team-leading fifth, and another tally in the sixth on a Liam Scafariello solo shot to deep right-center, his third of the year. But that would be all for the visitors as three Dartmouth relievers held Quinnipiac to one hit over the final three innings while striking out six. Senior Patrick Peterson provided three of those punchouts by fanning the side in the eighth.
The final Dartmouth run trotted home in the seventh when Crossing drew his fourth walk with two outs and the bases loaded.
Michel (1-1) was credited with the victory for his two perfect innings in relief in the third and fourth, striking out three.
Chris Enns (0-3) was stuck with the loss for surrendering six runs, five earned, on seven hits and three walks over three frames with one whiff.
Dartmouth (0-0 in Ivy League) will open up conference play this weekend with a three-game series at Penn (5-14, 1-2), beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
Notes: The last Big Green player with four walks in a game was Joe Sclafani '12 at Brown on April 15, 2012 … the two home runs were more than Dartmouth had hit in its previous 11 contests (1) … the Big Green had six extra-base hits in a game just twice last year, first against the University of Chicago on March 21 (8), then again in the season finale at Harvard (6) … the last time Dartmouth had 29 total bases against a Division I opponent was April 10, 2013 at Holy Cross (33) … this was the Big Green's 99th victory in Biondi Park in this the 10th year of the venue. Dartmouth has only 31 losses there for a .762 winning percentage.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Michel, Austen (1-1)
L: Enns, Chris (0-3)
Batting:
2B: Vulgamore, Evan 1 ; Cruz, Anthony 1
HR: Scafariello, Liam 1 ; Gibson, Ben 1
RBI: Vulgamore, Evan 1 ; Scafariello, Liam 1 ; Gibson, Ben 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Lutz, Dylan 1 ; Scafariello, Liam 1 ; Kasperzyk, Derek 1 ; Gibson, Ben 1
SB: Lutz, Dylan 1 ; Cruz, Anthony 1
CS: Vulgamore, Evan 2
Batting:
2B: Shirley, Dustin 1 ; Ostmo, Nate 1
3B: Sullivan, Sean 1 ; Calamari, Michael 1
HR: Shirley, Dustin 1 ; Fowler, Justin 1
RBI: Sullivan, Sean 1 ; Feinstein, Matt 1 ; Shirley, Dustin 2 ; Calamari, Michael 1 ; Fowler, Justin 2 ; Ostmo, Nate 1 ; Crossing, Blake 1 ; McCaskill, Bennett 1
SH: McCaskill, Bennett 1
SF: Feinstein, Matt 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Sullivan, Sean 2 ; Holbrook, Kyle 1 ; Shirley, Dustin 2 ; Calamari, Michael 2 ; Fowler, Justin 1 ; Ostmo, Nate 1 ; Crossing, Blake 2
SB: Shirley, Dustin 1
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