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Box Score 2 SWARTHMORE, Pa. – The Swarthmore College baseball team was swept in its Centennial Conference doubleheader on Saturday, Apr. 11 as it fell 9-4 and 17-2 to the visiting Johns Hopkins Blue Jays.
After falling behind in the first inning of game one, the Garnet responded with two runs in the bottom of the frame.
Roy Walker hit a two-RBI single down the left field line to drive in
Ryan Burnett and
Wesley Fishburn and give Swarthmore a 2-1 advantage.
The Garnet scored again in the third behind an RBI-base hit by
Scoop Ruxin and in the fifth when Ruxin scored Burnett on a double to center field. Burnett finished the game a perfect 2-for-2, drawing three walks and scoring two runs.
Unfortunately for Swarthmore, the Blue Jays' offense came alive in the seventh and eighth innings when the team scored a combined eight runs to take the lead and ultimately put the game away. Senior
Luke Alventosa fell to 1-3 with the loss and Ross Lazicky picked up the win for Johns Hopkins.
The Garnet's struggles continued in game two and the Blue Jays capitalized with 12 runs over the first five innings. Swarthmore did not put a run on the board until the bottom of the ninth when freshman catcher
Jaron Shrock used a bases-clearing double, one of his three hits in the game, to drive in
Brian Kaissi and
Nathan Booth.
Sophomore
Brian Gibbs was credited with the loss after allowing six earned runs in four innings on the mound.
The team looks to snap its three-game losing streak when it travels to Washington College on Sunday, Apr. 12 for a conference game at 12:30 p.m.
NOTES: At today's games, members of the Swarthmore College baseball team collected money for the Vs. Cancer Foundation to help in the effort to cure childhood cancer. Half of the proceeds will benefit national childhood cancer research, and the other half will help kids directly at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
