AUBURNDALE, Fla. —  With Dartmouth holding a 6-4 lead over Bowdoin in the sixth, the Big Green bats erupted for 10 runs to blow the game en route to a 19-4 victory at Lake Myrtle Park on Tuesday afternoon. Freshman
Zackarie Casebonne was one of four players — and one of three rookies — with three hits for Dartmouth (6-8) and drove in a season-high five runs to help defeat the Polar Bears (5-6).
Senior
Justin Murray joined Casebonne with three hits, swatting a trio of doubles while scoring four runs and driving in three more. Freshmen
Elliot Krewson and
Jackson Hower had three singles apiece, scoring a combined five runs with Krewson adding two RBIs, and senior
Kade Kretzschmar drove in four runs to give him a team-high 16 on the season.
The fateful sixth began with Krewson and sophomore
Tyler Cox slapping consecutive singles to put runners on the corners, ending the day for Bowdoin hurler Aidan Schraeder. Murray immediately greeted Cohen with a long fly to left, scoring Krewson with the first run. After Kretzschmar poked a single sending Cox scampering to third, junior
Connor Bertsch hit a grounder that the third baseman mishandled, allowing Cox to score from second. That error proved crucial as the next eight runs scored after two were out.
Hower singled to load the bases with two down, and Casebonne followed by sending a pitch down the right-field line for a bases-clearing double. Michael Weber was then summoned from the Polar Bear bullpen, and he promptly walked sophomore
Tyler Robinson before surrendering an RBI single to Krewson. Two more walks forced in a run and Kretzschmar one-upped Casebonne with a three-run triple to complete the 10-run stanza.
Casebonne added a two-run double in the seventh and scored the final run of the contest on a Krewson sacrifice fly. When Dartmouth reliever
Matt Carey retired the side in order in the seventh, the game was called due to the mercy rule.
The Big Green took an early 3-0 lead on RBI hits by Murray and junior
James House in the first and a run-scoring grounder that plated Murray in the third after his second two-bagger of the day.
After Bowdoin was denied a run in the third when Hower gunned down a runner at the plate from his position in left field, the Polar Bears fought back with four runs on just one hit in the fourth, thanks in large part to three consecutive errors.
Dartmouth quickly responded with three runs in the top of the fifth. Cox singled and Murray doubled again to start the inning, and Kretzschmar knotted the score at four with a grounder to first that brought Cox across the plate. Bertsch added an RBI single and the third run scored when Casebonne reached on an infield hit and the throw was wild, allowing House — who had walked — to score from second base.
Senior
Kunaal Verma (1-0) earned his first college victory with two scoreless innings in relief of sophomore
Tyler Cortland. Verma allowed just one hit and one walk in his second career outing on the mound. Carey closed the door with four strikeouts in his two scoreless stanzas of work.
Schraeder (1-1) took the loss for yielding eight runs, seven earned, on 11 hits and a pair of walks.
Dartmouth will play its final game at the RussMatt invitational tomorrow morning against Hope College (9-3) out of Holland, Michigan. First pitch is set to take place at 10 a.m. at Lake Myrtle Park.
Notes: Dartmouth is 26-7 against Bowdoin all-time, but this was the first game between the two schools in 110 years … Bowdoin won the first meeting in 1868 … seven of Murray's 11 hits this season are doubles, which ties him for the Ivy League lead … the last Big Green hitter with three doubles in a game was Michael Calamari against Princeton in 2019, while the school record for doubles in a game is four held by Matt Parisi (April 11, 2015 at Yale) … Kretzschmar has a league-leading three triples while the rest of the team has one.