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Box Score 2 WESTMINSTER, Md. – The Swarthmore College baseball team (17-13, 4-10 CC) continued to struggle in Centennial Conference play as it was swept by McDaniel on Saturday, Apr. 18. The Green Terror claimed a narrow, 8-7 victory in game one and completed the sweep in a 16-7 affair.
After falling into a 4-0 hole after one inning in the first game, the Garnet battled back with four runs of its own in the third. Swarthmore loaded the bases with no outs for
Ryan Burnett, who drove in
David Wolfson with a groundout to the third basemen.
Scoop Ruxin followed with a walk and then an error on a fielder's choice allowed
Cal Barnett-Mayotte to score.
Danny McMahon's single up the middle brought home Ruxin and
Wesley Fishburn, who finished with four hits, to tie the game at four apiece.
Swarthmore pulled ahead in the top of the fifth behind a sacrifice fly by
Gregory Cox that scored Ruxin for his second run of the game. Although McDaniel regained the advantage with two runs in the fifth, Fishburn knocked an RBI triple and Burnett drove him in with a single to take a 7-6 lead entering the bottom of the eighth. The Green Terror rallied with a run and used a walk-off single to the wall in the ninth to secure the 8-7 victory.
Nathan Booth was charged with his second loss of the season after allowing one run in one-third of an inning. Freshman catcher
Jaron Shrock tied his career-high for hits with three in five at bats.
In the second half of the doubleheader, the Green Terror scored nine runs in the fourth inning to take a 12-1 lead and run away with the game. Swarthmore chipped away with one run in both the fifth and sixth and continued to rally with four runs in the seventh inning. Freshmen
Nate Dow,
Matt Palmer, and Barnett-Mayotte and senior
Trevor Shepherd crossed home plate, but the deficit was ultimately too large to overcome.
Wolfson led the team with three hits and Barnett-Mayotte scored a team-high two runs in the game. Starter
Brian Gibbs allowed ten hits and 12 runs, though only three of them were earned due to seven errors by the Garnet defense.
Swarthmore looks to break its eight-game conference losing streak when it travels to Ursinus on Tuesday, Apr. 21 at 3:30 p.m.
