Dartmouth Drops Doubleheader at Princeton

Sunday, March 26

Princeton, N.J.

11:00 AM

Dartmouth College

1-15, 0-2

Princeton

8-11, 2-0

Dartmouth

Princeton

Sophomore Jackson Hower had his first career four-hit game in the finale

Photo by: Mike Janes/Four Seam Images

3/26/2023 4:36:00 PM | Baseball

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Jackson Hower was a bright spot with a career-high four hits in the finale

By: Rick Bender

PRINCETON, N.J. — Princeton completed a three-game sweep of the visiting Dartmouth Big Green by taking both games of the doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at Clarke Field, 6-1 and 12-4. Eric Marasheski reached base seven times and scored five runs to lead the Tigers (9-11, 3-0 Ivy) at the plate, while Dartmouth (1-16, 0-3 Ivy) was swept for just the second time in its last 34 Ivy League series dating back to the start of the 2016 campaign.

Sophomore Jackson Hower provided a bright spot on the day for the Big Green, going 4-for-4 in the finale for his first career four-hit game.

The first contest was characterized by some sloppy play in the early innings. A balk in the bottom of the first led to Princeton's first run as a two-out dribbler off the bat of Kyle Vinci drove in the runner from third. In the top of the second, an error and two passed balls allowed senior Kolton Freeman to score and tie the game. Then in the bottom half, a wild pitch was the key play that set up a Jack Koonin sacrifice fly for a 2-1 Tiger lead.

Princeton preserved its one-run edge in the fifth by walking the Big Green's leading hitter, junior Tyler Cox, to load the bases with two down and inducing a routine grounder to end the inning. The Tigers then extended their lead in their half of the fifth on a two-out RBI triple by Scott Bandura. On the very next pitch, Kyle Vinci launched his eighth home run of the season and third of the series, putting the Tigers up by a 5-1 count.

Dartmouth had just two base runners the rest of the way — a two-out double by sophomore Elliot Krewson in the seventh and a leadoff single in the eighth by Cox who was wiped out on a double play. Princeton tacked on its final run in the eighth on a Carlos Abello RBI double.

Tom Chmielewski (2-3) allowed just an unearned run in six innings on the mound to pick up the victory for the Tigers, yielding four hits and walking two while fanning five. Jacob Faulkner twirled three scoreless stanzas to close out the game for his fourth save.

Senior Jack Metzger (0-3) was tabbed with the loss after surrendering five runs on nine hits and a walk with three strikeouts. Both Cox and Krewson had a single and a double to account for four of the Big Green's six hits.

In the nightcap, the Tigers quickly jumped on top with two runs in the first. Two Princeton errors in the third gave one of those runs back with Krewson ripping an RBI single, but Bandura gave the Tigers a two-run lead again in the bottom half with an RBI single. A Koonin two-run homer in the fourth boosted the Big Green deficit to four runs at 5-1.

In the Dartmouth fifth, senior James House one-hopped the fence in left for a two-run double and scored after a passed ball and a sacrifice fly courtesy of senior Connor Burke, putting the Green right back in the game just a run down.

But that was as close as Dartmouth would get as Bandura tripled and scored in the Tigers half before they tacked on four runs in the sixth on four walks, a hit batter, three wild pitches and an RBI single off the bat of Nick DiPietrantonio. A Jake Bold two-run single in the seventh completed the scoring.

Matt Scannell (2-0) was credited with the victory in a scheduled short start of three innings, allowing one unearned run on three hits and a walk while striking out four. Big Green freshman Eddie Albert (0-2) suffered the defeat after giving up five runs on seven hits and a pair of free passes over 3.2 innings, fanning four along the way as well.

Dartmouth will look to regroup and end its longest skid (nine games) in 16 years when it hosts Penn (10-9, 1-2 Ivy) next weekend for the home-opening three-game series at Red Rolfe Field at Biondi Park. All three games will be streamed live on ESPN+ with Wayne Young '72 and Brett Franklin calling the action, and live stats will be available through DartmouthSports.com, the official website of Dartmouth Athletics.

Notes: The only other conference team to sweep Dartmouth in close to the last seven years was Penn in 2019.