BRISTOL, R.I. – The UMass Dartmouth baseball team came back from a six-run deficit to bring it within one run going into the ninth inning, but were unable to overcome Roger Williams University, falling 6-5 to the Hawks. The Corsairs move to 5-10 overall, while the Hawks are now 10-1 overall.
Roger Williams opened up the game's scoring by tallying six runs through the first six innings of action. The Corsairs responded in the seventh with a four-run inning to cut into the Hawks' lead. Freshman
Jacob Rosati got things going in the top of the seventh with a leadoff single. He was followed by back-to-back singles from grad student
Anthony Keefe and freshman
Ryan Jones that loaded the bases up with no outs. With the bases loaded, sophomore
Nicholas Michael cashed in with a single through the left side to bring in Rosati for UMD's first run of the game.
The bases were still loaded with one out for senior
T.J. Keefe, who singled up the middle, bringing in two runs and advancing Michael to third. Michael was brought in on a groundout off the bat of senior
Jared Neikam, bringing the deficit to just 6-4 heading into the stretch.
In the top of the eighth, while still trailing by two runs, the Corsairs struck again beginning with
Anthony Keefe who got on base on an error and stole second. Keefe was knocked in on a Jones single up the middle. UMass Dartmouth trailed by just one run heading into the ninth inning.
With the Corsairs closing the gap going into the ninth, RWU senior pitcher MarkAnthony Glickman entered the game and got the Hawks out of trouble in one-two-three fashion, as Roger Williams took their tenth win of the season by a score of 6-5. Sophomore hurler Louie Mosca was credited his third win of the season, allowing four runs on six hits and struck out 10 of the 28 batters he faced.
Sophomore pitcher
AJ Rourke shouldered the loss for the Corsairs. He allowed five runs (one earned) on six hits with two strikeouts in five innings of work. At the plate, UMD saw
Anthony Keefe go 2-for-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
T.J. Keefe was 1-for-5 with two RBI's. Jones was a perfect 2-for-2 with an RBI and a run.
The Corsairs open up their conference schedule tomorrow, hosting Southern Maine in Little East Conference doubleheader action. Game one has the first pitch scheduled for 12pm.
