PISCATAWAY, N.J. — It took a trip back north for the Dartmouth bats to thaw out as the Big Green pounded Princeton for 33 runs in a doubleheader sweep of the Tigers, starting with a 23-3 victory in the opener. Sophomore
Ubaldo Lopez delivered a bases-clearing double with two down in the ninth to lift Dartmouth (7-10, 2-0 Ivy) to an eventual 10-8 triumph in the nightcap, sending the Tigers (3-13, 0-2 Ivy) to their seventh straight defeat.
The Big Green entered the game hitting just .215 as a team and had scored 18 runs during their seven-game spring trip to Florida over the previous week. But their hitting woes quickly were forgotten as they pounded out 29 hits — 15 for extra bases with 10 doubles and a trio of long balls — boosting the batting average 23 points and the slugging percentage 53 points to .355.
Even with all of that offense, Dartmouth found itself trailing Princeton in the ninth of the nightcap, 6-5. Sophomore
Logan Adams opened the inning by drawing a walk and was replaced by junior
Eric Stolt on the bases. Senior
Sean Sullivan sent him to second with a bunt, but Tigers reliever Eric Hoefer (0-2) got the second out on strikes.
The Big Green weren't done, however, as junior
Michael Calamari was hit by a pitch and senior
Nate Ostmo beat out an infield hit to load the bases, bringing Lopez to the plate. He did not disappoint, driving a double into the gap in left-center to score all three runs. For good measure, junior
Trevor Johnson launched a two-run bomb in the same direction as Lopez' double to boost the Dartmouth lead to 10-6.
Sophomore
Max Hunter took over on the mound in bottom half, and Princeton battled back, putting the first two batters on base. After a wild pitch, a grounder to short scored one run, and another wild pitch scored a second. But Hunter gathered himself and retired the side on a grounder to short to end the game.
Dartmouth had scored first with an unearned run in the first only to have Princeton tally two in the bottom half. Sullivan gave the Green the lead back in the second with a two-run single, and another unearned run made it a 4-2 contest. But a two-out, two-run double by Max West in the third knotted the score at four.
Princeton reclaimed the lead in the fourth, and Dartmouth answered on back-to-back doubles by Ostmo and Lopez in the fifth. Again the Tigers answered, this time thanks to a pair of Big Green errors. The sixth, seventh and eighth frames all went quickly before Dartmouth rallied in the ninth.
Sophomore reliever
Jonah Jenkins (2-1) picked up the win by retiring all six batters he faced in the seventh and eighth. Lopez led the offense with four RBIs thanks to his two doubles. Jake Boone had four of Princeton's nine hits and scored three runs.
In the first game, Dartmouth scored at least two runs in each of the first six stanzas, but blew open a 7-2 game with eight runs in the fourth. Calamari led off with a triple and scored on a double off the bat of junior
Blake Crossing. Johnson had an RBI single, Sullivan walked with the bases loaded and Johnson scored on a wild pitch. By the time Calamari came to the plate again, the bases were loaded and his double scored two while a throwing error allowed the eighth run to cross the plate.
Two sacrifice flies and another Calamari two-run double in the fifth made it 19-2, and Adams' second homer of the game — a three-run shot — highlighted a four-run sixth to complete the Big Green's scoring in the contest.
Meanwhile, senior
Cole O'Connor (2-2) was setting down the Princeton lineup for eight innings. He allowed two runs on six hits and four walks with four strikeouts.
Eight of the nine starters had at least two hits as the Big Green racked up 21 and drew 11 walks in the contest. While Adams was going 4-for-6 with his first two career home runs, four runs and six RBIs out of the nine hole, Calamari was 4-for-5 with three doubles, a triple and four RBIs. Senior
Matt Feinstein also scored four runs, and both Lopez and senior
Steffen Torgersen crossed the plate three times each.
James Proctor (1-2) suffered the loss for yielding seven runs, six earned, on seven hits and three walks in two-plus innings on the mound. Chris Davis had three hits for the Tigers, scoring one run and driving in the other two.
Dartmouth will attempt to sweep the three-game series from Princeton for the second straight year when the two meet tomorrow at noon.
Notes: The Big Green have won six straight against the Tigers, matching their longest streak in the series … the 23 runs are tied for the second most in a league game in Dartmouth history, spanning both the EIBL and Ivy League dating back to 1930 … it is also tied for the eighth-most runs for the Green since 1900 … Adams finished the day 5-for-9 with a double, two homers, five runs and six RBIs after beginning the day 0-for-13 this season.