BOX SCORE (GAME 1) | BOX SCORE (GAME 2)

BABSON PARK, Mass. - Junior Michael O'Brien (Shrewsbury, Mass.) threw seven strong innings to earn his second win of the year as the Babson College baseball team earned a 4-1 victory over the visiting Rochester Institute of Technology in game one of a non-conference doubleheader at Babson's Govoni Field on Sunday afternoon. RIT then earned a split by taking the nightcap, 13-7, behind four hits and four RBIs from senior captain Jeremy Tosh (Woodbine, Md.).

With the split, Babson is now 8-3 on the season, while the Tigers move to 3-9.

O'Brien was brilliant in game one, allowing just one run on six hits, walking two and striking out five in seven innings. The complete game victory was his second of the season in as many starts. First-year Travis Jonasson (Needham, Mass.) went 2-for-3 with a home run to pace the Babson offense, while sophomore Billy Besinger (Milton, Mass.) added two RBIs.

Junior captain Geoff Dornes (Landsville, Pa.) started and took the loss in the opener for RIT, allowing three earned runs on six hits while walking three and fanning three in 5 2/3 innings. Junior Raffaele Parisi (Rochester, N.Y.) went 2-for-3 with an RBI for the Tigers, while first-year Jeffrey Creagh (Binghamton, N.Y.) added a hit and a run scored.

Babson grabbed a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third, as Besinger drew a bases-loaded walk to force in the game's first run. RIT later tied the game in the top of the fourth, as Creagh walked with one out and scored all the way from first on a double to right center by Parisi.

The Beavers moved in front for good in the fifth, as first-year Stephen Albano (Amherst, N.H.) led off with a single to left, moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and an error, and scored on an RBI groundout by Besinger. Babson then tacked on two more insurance runs in the sixth - the first on Jonasson's first collegiate homer over the wall in right center and the second when first-year Sean Cleary (Milton, Mass.) scored on a balk.

Both teams poured on the offense early in game two, combining for 18 runs in the first four innings of play. Tosh led RIT's 11-hit attack, going 4-for-5 with a double, two runs, and four RBIs, while junior Kyle Desrosiers (North Attleboro, Mass.) went 2-for-5 with a run and one knocked in. Sophomore Justin Smith (Livonia, N.Y.) added a hit, three runs scored, and two RBIs, Creagh drove in two, and senior Matt Austin (Weedsport, N.Y.) scored twice and knocked in a run. Junior Cory Langtry (Moravia, N.Y.) gutted out the win on the mound with six innings of work, while Desrosiers added a scoreless inning of relief.

Jonasson and junior Jake Bartlett (Weymouth, Mass.) led the Babson offense with two hits apiece in game two, while Besinger and senior captain Bryan Evans (Bellaire, Texas) each added two RBIs. The first of five Beaver pitchers in the game, first-year Trevor MacNeill (Hanover, Mass.) took the loss. First-year Rick Gilbody (Hanover, Mass.) had Babson's top performance out of the bullpen, allowing two unearned runs while striking out five in two innings, and senior Chris Legrow (North Andover, Mass.) pitched a perfect seventh.

Rochester scored four runs in the top of the first, highlighted by a two-run single to left by Tosh. The Beavers got a run back on a sacrifice fly by Evans in the bottom of the inning, but the Tigers tacked on two more in the second to build a 6-1 advantage.

Babson pulled back to within striking distance in its half of the second, with junior Peter O'Toole (Salem, Mass.) plating a run with a sac fly to right and Besinger knocking in two more with a double to right center. The two teams then traded runs in the third before RIT put up four in the fourth for an 11-5 lead. Austin recorded an RBI single in the inning, while Smith drove in a pair with a single to right.

Evans singled in O'Toole in the bottom of the fourth to make it an 11-7 affair, but that would be as close as the Beavers would get. Tosh drove in two more runs in the sixth and Langtry and Desrosiers combined to blank the hosts in their final three at-bats as the Tigers claimed the 13-7 win.