AUBURNDALE, Fla. — Junior
James House went 2-for-4 with four RBIs, including a three-run triple, to help Dartmouth overcome an early 3-0 deficit and trounce Williams, 15-6, on Monday afternoon at Lake Myrtle Park. The Big Green (5-8) needed just seven hits to push their season-high 15 runs across the plate, thanks to 10 walks, four hit batters and a pair of errors by the Ephs (2-2).
While House was driving in a career-high four runs, sophomore
Tyler Cox and junior
Connor Bertsch were scoring three runs, with the latter reaching base four times with three walks and a double that extended his hitting streak to 10 games. Cox, freshman
Jackson Hower and junior
Peter O'Toole had two RBIs to contribute to the offensive onslaught.
Williams outhit Dartmouth by an 11-7 margin, scoring the game's first run on back-to-back, one-out doubles by Daniel Lynch and Jakob Cohn in the top of the first. An error in the field allowed Cohn to score as well, and the Ephs made it a 3-0 game in the second on an RBI double off the bat of Eric Pappas.
It wasn't until two were gone in the third that the Big Green mounted their charge. A hit batter and a pair of walks loaded the bases and the first run sprinted home on a passed ball. Another walk filled the bases again, and House cleared them with his booming triple — Dartmouth's first hit of the day — to put the Green on top, 4-3.
The Ephs knotted the score at four in the fifth on a balk by rookie reliever
Danny Will, who had entered in the third. But Dartmouth got that run back along with two others in the bottom half when House singled home a run with the bags juiced, Hower was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded and O'Toole sent a sacrifice fly to left.
The Big Green added three more in both the sixth and seventh stanzas with Cox driving in a run in each inning. Even when Williams scored twice in the eighth, Hower stroked an RBI double and O'Toole produced another sacrifice fly in response.
Will (1-0) earned his first collegiate victory by tossing 2.2 innings of one-run ball, allowing two hits and a walk while striking out a pair. Sophomore
Shane Bauer got the final five outs, fanning two, to close out the victory.
Jacob Martin (0-1) was stuck with the loss after surrendering three runs, one earned, over 1.1 innings of relief with three strikeouts.
Dartmouth will play for the seventh straight day during its spring trip when it takes Bowdoin (5-5) tomorrow at 1 p.m. at Lake Myrtle Park.
Notes: This was the 126th meeting between the two schools on the diamond with Dartmouth holding a 65-59-2 advantage … since World War I, these two have met just 38 times with the Big Green going 30-8 in those contests … the last Dartmouth batter to hit safely in 10 straight games was Steffen Torgersen in 2019 (12 games).