Box Score (Box Score)
MIDDLEBURY, Vt. – Middlebury College scored
13 runs in the first three innings and never looked back on its way
to a 15-7 non-conference baseball win over Plymouth State
University Wednesday on Forbes Field. The home team pounded out 16
hits in a game that was delayed 38 minutes due to rain and ended
after 7 ½ innings due to darkness.
The first six batters reached for Middlebury before the rain delay.
Donald McKillop plated Tyler Wark with a single to center, before
Erich Enns singled down the left field line to score Danny Seymour.
Joseph Conway plated Enns, before Michael Morris belted a double to
left to score Conway.
PSU answered in the top of the second when sophomore Joe
Eramo (Shirley, Mass.) ripped a three-run triple to right
center to make it a 5-3 game. An RBI single to short by Seymour in
the bottom of the inning plated Wark to make it 6-3. Eramo finished
4-for-4 with a walk, a triple and three RBI to pace Plymouth State,
while sophomore Mike Cappiello (Westfield, N.J.)
was 2-for-3 win a walk and a pair of singles.
Plymouth State struck for two more runs in the third, with a
two-run double to left center by junior Grant
Livingston (Niantic, Conn.), delivering classmates
Matt Koban (Bradford, N.H.) and Dan
Eagan (Norwich, Conn.) for a pair of unearned runs.
Leading by one, a seven-run third inning gave Middlebury a 13-5
lead after three innings of play. Wark hit a two-run single to left
in the inning, while McKillop plated three with a double to right
center. Enns later drove in McKillop, while Morris plated Enns with
a single to right for the seventh run of the inning.
A two-run double to right center by Conway in the fifth would be
Middlebury's final runs, and Plymouth added a pair in the
eighth.
Peter Kinchley threw two innings of one-hit relief to pick up his
first win of the season, while PSU sophomore starter Joe
Hudson (Greenfield, Mass.) fell to 0-4. John Popkowski and
John Wiet each threw an inning of scoreless relief for Middlebury.
PSU plays another non-conference road game Thursday at Colby-Sawyer
College (3:30 p.m.)
(Courtesy of Middlebury Sports
Information)
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