Trinity Baseball Pounds Bates To Complete Weekend Sweep
Lewiston, Maine -- The visiting Trinity College Bantam baseball
team completed a three-game sweep of the New England Small College
Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East Division rival Bates College
Bobcats this afternoon, coasting to wins of 21-3 in Game 1 and 14-2
in Game 2. The defending NCAA Division III champion Bantams moved
to 9-0 in the NESCAC East Division and 18-3 overall, while Bates
dropped to 3-6 in the NESCAC East and 7-13 overall.
In Game One, Trinity supported starter James Ramsey
(Belmont, Mass.) with 16 hits, including five home
runs, two by Ryan Piacentini (Portland, Maine),
who went 3-for-5 at the plate with four runs and three RBIs.
Sean Killeen (Greenfield, Mass.) also homered in a
4--for-6 effort while driving in five runs. James Wood
(Windham, N.H.) and Matt Sullivan (North Reading,
Mass.) also both homered. The Bantams led 6-1 before
exploding with six runs in the fourth and seven more runs in the
sixth to take a 19-1 lead.
Bates starter Paul Chiampa pitched into the fourth inning in
accepting the loss, dropping him to 2-3 on the season. Chris Burke
went 2-for-3 for his second straight two-hit game as Bates totaled
seven hits in the game to go with seven errors.
Piacentini and Killeen continued to torch Bates pitching in Game 2.
Piacentini went 3-for-4 with three RBIs and three runs, while
Killeen homered en route to a 2-4 performance with two runs and two
RBIs. Kent Graham (Longmeadow, Mass.) had
three of Trinity's 18 hits with a pair of RBIs. Wood hit his second
homer of the day, and Alex Rokicki (Truro, Mass.)
and Robert Martin (Lowell, Mass.) also
homered in support of Andrew Janiga (Ellington,
Conn.), who moved to 3-1 on the year with a seven-inning
performance. Janiga scattered six hits and walked one Bobcat.
Bates starter Ryan Heide dropped to 2-2 in a three-inning stint
before giving way to Ben Shwartz. Shwartz, Alex Gallant and Will
Furbush all went two innings in relief, with Gallant pitching two
shutout innings.
Rich Velotta had two of Bates' six hits in the game, while Pat
Murphy drove in both Bates runs with a sacrifice fly and an RBI
groundout.
