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Peter O'Toole homered in his final college game, as did Ryan Schwartz
Photo by: Doug Austin
Baseball Season Ends with Two Losses at Sacred Heart
5/13/2023 7:04:00 PM | Baseball
Peter O'Toole and Ryan Schwartz homered in their final college game
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — Seniors Ryan Schwartz and Peter O'Toole hit their first career homer runs in their final college game, but Dartmouth could not quite salvage a doubleheader split at Sacred Heart on Saturday, dropping both ends of the twinbill by scores of 26-5 and 6-5. The losses ended a difficult season for the Big Green, which ended the year with a 3-38 record, while the Pioneers improved to 23-26.
Following the forgettable first game, Dartmouth jumped out to a 4-0 lead through five innings thanks to the power of O'Toole and Schwartz and the pitching of fifth-year senior Trystan Sarcone. The first run, however, came courtesy of an RBI single by sophomore catcher Zackarie Casebonne in the second, sending his classmate, Jackson Hower, across the plate after he had led off the inning with a base hit and stole second.
O'Toole powered up in the third, belting a 2-0 pitch over the fence in center field for a solo shot, and Schwartz cranked a two-run blast to left-center in the fourth, scoring Casebonne who had singled again.
Sarcone, meanwhile, was handling the Pioneer lineup that seemed unstoppable in the opening game. The left-hander faced the minimum in three of the first five frames and did not allow a runner past second base. Sacred Heart did get two runners on base in the fourth, but Sarcone induced a grounder to third to end the threat.
The sixth inning, however, proved to be the difference as the Pioneer lineup got to Sarcone with a walk, infield hit, throwing error and two-run single off the bat of Ryan Donnelly, cutting the Sacred Heart deficit in half. Sarcone yielded to senior Jack Metzger with one out and a man on third, but the Pioneers would not relent. Dante D'Amore poked an RBI single down the right-field line, Zack Kovalchik singled him to second and Nick Jasloski doubled him home to tie the score. Kovalchik scored when a throw to plate on a ground ball was wild, and John Greene ended the scoring with a sacrifice fly for a 6-4 SHU lead.
Dartmouth battled back in the eighth when Max Zajec led off with a single and Hower ripped a double into the left-field corner, allowing Zajec to score all the way from first. But with the tying run on second and nobody out, Pioneer reliever Michael Boyian left Hower on second by inducing a fly to left, a liner to second and a fly to center.
Tyler Robinson beat out an infield hit — his second hit of the game — with one out in the ninth against closer Tyler Briggs, but the very next pitch was turned into a double play to end the game, giving Briggs his fifth save.
The third Sacred Heart pitcher, Jake Babuschak (5-4), picked up the win with two perfect innings on the mound, striking out three.
Metzger (1-8) took the loss for yielding three runs, one earned, on four hits over 2.2 innings to go with a pair of punchouts.
Although the Big Green took the lead in the first game with an unearned run in the first, Donnelly put the Pioneers on top in the bottom half with a two-run double. Another unearned run for Dartmouth in the second tied the game at two, but Sacred Heart sent 19 men to the plate in its half while scoring 14 runs. Joe Emerson had four RBIs in the stanza with a three-run homer, his second of the year, and an RBI single, Mongelli also launched a three-run blast, his team-leading 13th, and Robert Farruggio had two hits as well with a single and a double before making the final out.
Sacred Heart proceeded to tack on five more runs in the third to take an insurmountable 21-2 lead, and the rest of the game was academic, though senior James House cracked a pinch-hit homer in the eighth, his first long ball of the season.
Donnelly finished the game 4-for-6 with four runs and seven RBIs to lead the 19-hit attack, and Mark Smith scored five times from the nine-hole. Josh Cohen (1-0) was credited with the win in a scheduled short start, allowing two unearned runs in two innings.
Zajec provided three of the Big Green's eight hits, scoring one run and driving in another. Clark Gilmore (2-4) lasted just 1.2 innings in taking the loss.
Notes: The 14 runs Sacred Heart scored in the second inning are the most in an inning for any Dartmouth opponent in at least 54 years, and the 26 runs are the second most for an opponent since 1900 … Casebonne ended the season on a six-game hitting streak during which he hit .444 (8-for-18), raising his average 83 points … House is the only Big Green player with a pinch-homer in the last seven years, and he has two.
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Following the forgettable first game, Dartmouth jumped out to a 4-0 lead through five innings thanks to the power of O'Toole and Schwartz and the pitching of fifth-year senior Trystan Sarcone. The first run, however, came courtesy of an RBI single by sophomore catcher Zackarie Casebonne in the second, sending his classmate, Jackson Hower, across the plate after he had led off the inning with a base hit and stole second.
O'Toole powered up in the third, belting a 2-0 pitch over the fence in center field for a solo shot, and Schwartz cranked a two-run blast to left-center in the fourth, scoring Casebonne who had singled again.
Sarcone, meanwhile, was handling the Pioneer lineup that seemed unstoppable in the opening game. The left-hander faced the minimum in three of the first five frames and did not allow a runner past second base. Sacred Heart did get two runners on base in the fourth, but Sarcone induced a grounder to third to end the threat.
The sixth inning, however, proved to be the difference as the Pioneer lineup got to Sarcone with a walk, infield hit, throwing error and two-run single off the bat of Ryan Donnelly, cutting the Sacred Heart deficit in half. Sarcone yielded to senior Jack Metzger with one out and a man on third, but the Pioneers would not relent. Dante D'Amore poked an RBI single down the right-field line, Zack Kovalchik singled him to second and Nick Jasloski doubled him home to tie the score. Kovalchik scored when a throw to plate on a ground ball was wild, and John Greene ended the scoring with a sacrifice fly for a 6-4 SHU lead.
Dartmouth battled back in the eighth when Max Zajec led off with a single and Hower ripped a double into the left-field corner, allowing Zajec to score all the way from first. But with the tying run on second and nobody out, Pioneer reliever Michael Boyian left Hower on second by inducing a fly to left, a liner to second and a fly to center.
Tyler Robinson beat out an infield hit — his second hit of the game — with one out in the ninth against closer Tyler Briggs, but the very next pitch was turned into a double play to end the game, giving Briggs his fifth save.
The third Sacred Heart pitcher, Jake Babuschak (5-4), picked up the win with two perfect innings on the mound, striking out three.
Metzger (1-8) took the loss for yielding three runs, one earned, on four hits over 2.2 innings to go with a pair of punchouts.
Although the Big Green took the lead in the first game with an unearned run in the first, Donnelly put the Pioneers on top in the bottom half with a two-run double. Another unearned run for Dartmouth in the second tied the game at two, but Sacred Heart sent 19 men to the plate in its half while scoring 14 runs. Joe Emerson had four RBIs in the stanza with a three-run homer, his second of the year, and an RBI single, Mongelli also launched a three-run blast, his team-leading 13th, and Robert Farruggio had two hits as well with a single and a double before making the final out.
Sacred Heart proceeded to tack on five more runs in the third to take an insurmountable 21-2 lead, and the rest of the game was academic, though senior James House cracked a pinch-hit homer in the eighth, his first long ball of the season.
Donnelly finished the game 4-for-6 with four runs and seven RBIs to lead the 19-hit attack, and Mark Smith scored five times from the nine-hole. Josh Cohen (1-0) was credited with the win in a scheduled short start, allowing two unearned runs in two innings.
Zajec provided three of the Big Green's eight hits, scoring one run and driving in another. Clark Gilmore (2-4) lasted just 1.2 innings in taking the loss.
Notes: The 14 runs Sacred Heart scored in the second inning are the most in an inning for any Dartmouth opponent in at least 54 years, and the 26 runs are the second most for an opponent since 1900 … Casebonne ended the season on a six-game hitting streak during which he hit .444 (8-for-18), raising his average 83 points … House is the only Big Green player with a pinch-homer in the last seven years, and he has two.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Cohen, Josh (1-0)
L: Gilmore, Clark (2-5)
Batting:
2B: O'Toole, Peter 1 ; Freeman, Kolton 1
HR: House, James 1
RBI: Krewson, Elliot 1 ; Zajec, Max 1 ; House, James 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Cox, Tyler 1 ; O'Toole, Peter 1 ; Zajec, Max 1 ; Hower, Jackson 1 ; House, James 1
SB: Freeman, Kolton 1
HBP: Hower, Jackson 2
Batting:
2B: Donnelly, Ryan 3 ; D'Amore, Dante 1 ; Farruggio, Robert 2 ; Skarad, Joey 1
3B: Smith, Mark 1
HR: Mongelli, Sam 1 ; Emerson, Joe 1
RBI: Jordan, Justin 2 ; Mongelli, Sam 3 ; Donnelly, Ryan 7 ; Emerson, Joe 4 ; McGuire, Tim 1 ; Greene, John 1 ; D'Amore, Dante 3 ; Farruggio, Robert 2 ; Smith, Mark 1
SF: Jordan, Justin 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Jordan, Justin 4 ; Mongelli, Sam 4 ; Donnelly, Ryan 4 ; Emerson, Joe 3 ; McGuire, Tim 1 ; D'Amore, Dante 1 ; Farruggio, Robert 2 ; Skarad, Joey 2 ; Smith, Mark 5
HBP: Jordan, Justin 2 ; Mongelli, Sam 2 ; Kovalchik, Zack 1 ; Skarad, Joey 1 ; Smith, Mark 1
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