LEXINGTON, S.C. – The Swarthmore College baseball team suffered a 12-7 loss to Trinity College (Conn.) in the first game of the Garnet's spring break trip to South Carolina on Sunday afternoon.
The Bantams took a 3-0 lead in the opening inning and held the advantage the rest of the way.
Aidan Sullivan led Swarthmore at the plate, going 3-for-4 with two doubles, a walk, a stolen base, one RBI, and two runs.
Benjamin Buchman and
Kaiden Rosenbaum each recorded two hits and an RBI.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Trinity scored three times in the first on a pair of singles and a double. The Garnet got within one with two runs in the second. Rosenbaum smacked an RBI double and
Xavier Taylor followed with a base hit to score Rosenbaum.
- The Bantams opened up their lead with four runs in the second. They had another RBI single plus a three-run, bases-clearing double.
- Swarthmore scored twice again in the third to make it 7-4. Sullivan led off with a double then came home on
Matthew Silvestre's single. Silvestre later scored on a groundout. However, Trinity pushed runs across on a balk and a single in the bottom of the third to up the margin to five again (9-4).
- After the Bantams tacked on a run with a sacrifice fly in the fifth, the Garnet posted three runs in the sixth to cut the deficit to three (10-7). Sullivan and Buchman both knocked in a run with a base hit and Silvestre brought a run in with a sac fly.
- Trinity tallied the final two runs of the contest with a sacrifice fly in the seventh and a home run in the eighth.
GARNET OFFENSIVE LEADERS
Hits: Sullivan 3
Runs: Sullivan, Rosenbaum 2
RBI: Silvestre 2
Stolen Bases: Sullivan, Buchman 1
UP NEXT
Swarthmore (5-3) continues its trip with a pair of games on Monday, taking on Case Western Reserve University and Oswego State.
