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Bryce Daniel celebrates his first career home run with his teammates.
Photo by: Doug Austin
Big Green End Columbia’s 19-Game Win Streak with 11-8 Win
5/14/2022 6:21:00 PM | Baseball
Bryce Daniel and Kade Kretzschmar hit home runs late to lift Dartmouth to the big win
HANOVER, N.H. — Seniors Kade Kretzschmar and Bryce Daniel made Senior Day one to remember as they both hit crucial late home runs in the opening game of the final series of the regular season with visiting Columbia on Saturday at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park, lifting Dartmouth (23-18, 13-6 Ivy) to an 11-8 victory. The win ended the Lions' 19-game winning streak, the longest in the nation, dropping them to 26-14 overall and 16-3 in the league, and kept the Big Green's slim postseason hopes alive.
The second game of the doubleheader was suspended due to lightning after four innings with Columbia leading, 5-3.
After falling behind by three runs twice in the first four frames, Dartmouth put solitary runs on the board in the fourth and sixth to close the gap to one at 5-4. In the seventh, sophomores Tyler Cox and Tyler Robinson reached with one out on a walk and an error, causing Columbia to summon its second reliever of the game to the mound in Billy Black. The right-hander got the second out with a swinging strikeout, but Kretzschmar hammered a 1-0 pitch over the fence in right for a three-run blast, his seventh of the year, and a 7-5 lead.
The Lions got one back in the eighth on an RBI double off the bat of Joshua Solomon, but Dartmouth was not done at the plate. Black retired the first two batters before issuing a walk. That's when Daniel launched his first career home run to boost the lead to 9-6. Another walk to Cox, a single by Robinson and a wild pitch set up senior Justin Murray to line a two-run single to left for a five-run advantage.
But Columbia has the hightest-scoring offense in the Ivy League, making there no such thing as a comfortable lead. Hayden Schott poked a one-out, two-run double into left-center, ending the longest outing of junior reliever Jack Metzger's career at 4.1 innings and bringing right-hander Cole Roland to the mound. The senior induced a cue ball that Daniel deftly fielded at second and threw to first, and Roland got the final batter to wave at strike three to end the game and earn his fourth save.
Big Green starter Nathan Skinner found trouble facing the Lions' lineup in the first inning, starting with a one-out, RBI double by Tyler MacGregor. Weston Eberly followed with a sinking liner to left-center that got past the diving center fielder for an RBI triple, and Anton Lazits added a sacrifice fly to put Columbia on top, 3-0.
Dartmouth got two back in the second against Lions right-hander Joe Sheets. Kretzschmar singled between first and second, took second on a slow chopper and sprinted home on an RBI single by sophomore Nathan Cmeyla, who took second on a wild throw into second base. With two down, sophomore Max Zajec shot a single between short and third, and Cmeyla just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide, cutting the deficit to one.
Walks proved harmful to both teams as the game progressed, starting with a two-out free pass to Columbia's ninth-place hitter, Austin Mowrey. Skinner's very next pitch was deposited over the fence in deep right-center, a two-run shot and his six long ball of the year, boosting the Lions' lead back to three at 5-2.
The Big Green chipped away, however, as Daniel sent a sacrifice fly to right, scoring junior Connor Bertsch who had walked an scooted to third on another Zajec single. A leadoff walk to junior Kolton Freeman in the sixth turned into another Dartmouth run on a Bertsch RBI single up the middle, setting up Kretzschmar's heroics in the seventh.
Metzger (2-2) came on to pitch to start the fifth after Skinner threw 95 pitches in his four frames, and the right-hander held Columbia scoreless through the fifth, sixth and seventh stanzas on two hits and a career-high five strikeouts before surrendering the run in the eighth and two in the ninth. But he gave the Big Green bats the opporutnity to rally, and they did just that for him, giving him his second win in as many games.
Kretzschmar and Daniel both drove in three runs, a career high for the latter, while Murray was one of three Big Green hitters with two hits, including his 20th double of the season.
Black (2-5) took the loss for yielding five runs in 1.2 innings of relief. Weston led the Columbia offense with three of the team's 12 hits.
The second game of the doubleheader will resume at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning with junior reliever Shane Bauer on the mound for Dartmouth and Eberly at the plate to lead off the fifth inning. The third and final game of the series will be played 30 minutes after the conclusion of the suspended game.
Notes: Dartmouth can still qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series next weekend if it wins the last two games of the series AND Princeton beats Penn three times. The first game of that series was suspended in the sixth with Penn leading, 7-3 … Columbia fell two wins shy of tying the Ivy League record of 21 straight wins, held by the 1970 Dartmouth team that advanced to the College World Series … one of the players on that team, Wayne Young '72, serves as one of the Big Green broadcasters on ESPN+, and he took a bit of delight at seeing the streak come to an end … Dartmouth pitchers struck out 11 Lions on the day, giving the staff 304 on the season, breaking the program's single-season record of 297 set in 2016 … Cox reached base for the 29th consecutive game, the longest streak by a Big Green player in at least 17 years … Murray is one double shy of tying the school's single-season record of 21 set by Jeff Keller '14 in 2013 … Dartmouth has scored 10 or more runs 15 times this year, winning all 15 contests.
The second game of the doubleheader was suspended due to lightning after four innings with Columbia leading, 5-3.
After falling behind by three runs twice in the first four frames, Dartmouth put solitary runs on the board in the fourth and sixth to close the gap to one at 5-4. In the seventh, sophomores Tyler Cox and Tyler Robinson reached with one out on a walk and an error, causing Columbia to summon its second reliever of the game to the mound in Billy Black. The right-hander got the second out with a swinging strikeout, but Kretzschmar hammered a 1-0 pitch over the fence in right for a three-run blast, his seventh of the year, and a 7-5 lead.
The Lions got one back in the eighth on an RBI double off the bat of Joshua Solomon, but Dartmouth was not done at the plate. Black retired the first two batters before issuing a walk. That's when Daniel launched his first career home run to boost the lead to 9-6. Another walk to Cox, a single by Robinson and a wild pitch set up senior Justin Murray to line a two-run single to left for a five-run advantage.
But Columbia has the hightest-scoring offense in the Ivy League, making there no such thing as a comfortable lead. Hayden Schott poked a one-out, two-run double into left-center, ending the longest outing of junior reliever Jack Metzger's career at 4.1 innings and bringing right-hander Cole Roland to the mound. The senior induced a cue ball that Daniel deftly fielded at second and threw to first, and Roland got the final batter to wave at strike three to end the game and earn his fourth save.
Big Green starter Nathan Skinner found trouble facing the Lions' lineup in the first inning, starting with a one-out, RBI double by Tyler MacGregor. Weston Eberly followed with a sinking liner to left-center that got past the diving center fielder for an RBI triple, and Anton Lazits added a sacrifice fly to put Columbia on top, 3-0.
Dartmouth got two back in the second against Lions right-hander Joe Sheets. Kretzschmar singled between first and second, took second on a slow chopper and sprinted home on an RBI single by sophomore Nathan Cmeyla, who took second on a wild throw into second base. With two down, sophomore Max Zajec shot a single between short and third, and Cmeyla just beat the throw to the plate with a head-first slide, cutting the deficit to one.
Walks proved harmful to both teams as the game progressed, starting with a two-out free pass to Columbia's ninth-place hitter, Austin Mowrey. Skinner's very next pitch was deposited over the fence in deep right-center, a two-run shot and his six long ball of the year, boosting the Lions' lead back to three at 5-2.
The Big Green chipped away, however, as Daniel sent a sacrifice fly to right, scoring junior Connor Bertsch who had walked an scooted to third on another Zajec single. A leadoff walk to junior Kolton Freeman in the sixth turned into another Dartmouth run on a Bertsch RBI single up the middle, setting up Kretzschmar's heroics in the seventh.
Metzger (2-2) came on to pitch to start the fifth after Skinner threw 95 pitches in his four frames, and the right-hander held Columbia scoreless through the fifth, sixth and seventh stanzas on two hits and a career-high five strikeouts before surrendering the run in the eighth and two in the ninth. But he gave the Big Green bats the opporutnity to rally, and they did just that for him, giving him his second win in as many games.
Kretzschmar and Daniel both drove in three runs, a career high for the latter, while Murray was one of three Big Green hitters with two hits, including his 20th double of the season.
Black (2-5) took the loss for yielding five runs in 1.2 innings of relief. Weston led the Columbia offense with three of the team's 12 hits.
The second game of the doubleheader will resume at 10 a.m. on Sunday morning with junior reliever Shane Bauer on the mound for Dartmouth and Eberly at the plate to lead off the fifth inning. The third and final game of the series will be played 30 minutes after the conclusion of the suspended game.
Notes: Dartmouth can still qualify for the Ivy League Championship Series next weekend if it wins the last two games of the series AND Princeton beats Penn three times. The first game of that series was suspended in the sixth with Penn leading, 7-3 … Columbia fell two wins shy of tying the Ivy League record of 21 straight wins, held by the 1970 Dartmouth team that advanced to the College World Series … one of the players on that team, Wayne Young '72, serves as one of the Big Green broadcasters on ESPN+, and he took a bit of delight at seeing the streak come to an end … Dartmouth pitchers struck out 11 Lions on the day, giving the staff 304 on the season, breaking the program's single-season record of 297 set in 2016 … Cox reached base for the 29th consecutive game, the longest streak by a Big Green player in at least 17 years … Murray is one double shy of tying the school's single-season record of 21 set by Jeff Keller '14 in 2013 … Dartmouth has scored 10 or more runs 15 times this year, winning all 15 contests.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Metzger, Jack (2-2)
L: Black, Billy (2-5)
S: Roland, Cole (4)
Batting:
2B: Blake, Andy 1 ; MacGregor, Tyler 1 ; Eberly, Weston 1 ; Schott, Hayden 1 ; Solomon, Joshua 1
3B: Eberly, Weston 1
HR: Hage, Cole 1
RBI: Hage, Cole 2 ; MacGregor, Tyler 1 ; Eberly, Weston 1 ; Schott, Hayden 2 ; Lazits, Anton 1 ; Solomon, Joshua 1
SF: Lazits, Anton 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hage, Cole 1 ; Blake, Andy 1 ; MacGregor, Tyler 2 ; Eberly, Weston 2 ; Lazits, Anton 1 ; Mowrey, Austin 1
HBP: Schott, Hayden 1
Batting:
2B: Murray, Justin 1
HR: Kretzschmar, Kade 1 ; Daniel, Bryce 1
RBI: Murray, Justin 2 ; Kretzschmar, Kade 3 ; Cmeyla, Nathan 1 ; Bertsch, Connor 1 ; Zajec, Max 1 ; Daniel, Bryce 3
SF: Daniel, Bryce 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cox, Tyler 2 ; Robinson, Tyler 2 ; Kretzschmar, Kade 2 ; Freeman, Kolton 1 ; Cmeyla, Nathan 1 ; Bertsch, Connor 1 ; Zajec, Max 1 ; Daniel, Bryce 1
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