Box Score DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- Freshman Benjamin Schena (Cheshire, Conn.) rapped out three hits and drove in three runs to lead Endicott to a 14-4 non-league college baseball victory over UMass Dartmouth Sunday afternoon at the UMD Baseball Field.
The visiting Gulls (10-7) scored four times in the opening two innings without the benefit of a hit, as senior Dan Cacciola's (Saugus, Mass.) RBI groundout in the first gave Endicott the early advantage before senior Jack Harrington's (Barnstable, Mass.) two-run single in the bottom of the frame provided the host Corsairs (8-11) with a 2-1 cushion. The Gulls took the lead for good in the top of the second after a double play grounder and a wild pitch followed Schena's bases loaded hit-by-pitch to highlight a three-run rally, and that score held up until the visitors took control of the contest by scoring eight times in the middle innings.
Schena's two-run single and an RBI groundout by senior Matt Bald (De Pere, Wis.) capped a three-run fourth inning outburst for Endicott, which added three more tallies in the fifth on a two-run single up the middle by sophomore Jordan Carvalho (Rehoboth, Mass.), who later scored on a fielder's choice. The Gulls tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a double play grounder and an RBI double to left center off the bat of sophomore Nickolas Perkins (Nashua, N.H), and the visitors added single tallies in the seventh and eighth innings on freshman Christian Allaire's (Sandown, N.H.) RBI single and a wild pitch to close out their scoring. UMass Dartmouth, which also plated a run in the fourth on an error, accounted for the final margin on senior Chris Wood's (Berkley, Mass.) run-scoring single to right in the bottom of the ninth.
Perkins collected a pair of doubles to join Schena with three hits as part of a 12-hit attack in the win for Endicott, which received two hits each off the bats of Allaire and Carvalho on the day. Junior Joseph Brown (Poultney, Vt.), the second of four pitchers used by the Gulls in the contest, picked up the win with two scoreless innings of relief that featured three strikeouts, as he evened his mark at 1-1 on the spring.
Junior JR DiSarcina (Barnstable, Mass.) singled in the fifth inning to extend his hitting streak to 17 straight in the setback for UMass Dartmouth, which rapped out eight hits that included a double off the bat of freshman Zak Souza (Fall River, Mass.). Freshman Jon Levy (Norton, Mass.) suffered the setback on the mound for the Corsairs, as he allowed three earned runs in an inning-plus of action.
UMass Dartmouth travels to Gorham, Maine on Tuesday afternoon to take on sixth-ranked Southern Maine in a Little East Conference clash beginning at 3:30 pm, while Endicott hosts UMass Boston in a non-league outing on Tuesday afternoon in Beverly, Mass. that also begins at 3:30 pm.
(Photo Credit: Rainier Almonte '19)
