BABSON PARK, Mass.—Sophomore
Connor Doan (Pasadena, Texas) tossed seven shutout innings, while classmate
Ryan Hvozdovic (Hillsborough, N.J.) and first-year
Alexander Wilson (Millburn, N.J) both drove in three runs to help Babson College defeat visiting UMass Dartmouth, 10-3, in non-conference baseball action on Monday afternoon at Govoni Field.
With its seventh consecutive win, Babson improves to 10-6. UMass Dartmouth, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, dips to 8-11 overall.
Hvozdovic went 3-for-4 with a double and two runs scored, Wilson was 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored and junior
Justin Guest (West Windsor, N.J.) finished 2-for-3 with an RBI and three runs scored to lead the Beavers. Senior
Jack Julian (Manchester, Mass.) singled, scored twice and drove in a run, while first-year
Dante D'Avanzo (Ashland, Mass.) added two RBI in the victory.
Doan (1-0) was terrific in his second start of the season, striking out three and scattering seven hits in a career-high 7.0 innings pitched for Babson.
First-year Jake SanAntonio (Cranston, R.I.) went 2-for-4 with an RBI, junior Devyn Vezina (Coventry, R.I.) was 2-for-4 with a double and first-year Cooper Wixon (Plano, Texas) singled twice to lead the Corsairs. Senior Ryan Qualey (Woburn, Mass.) dropped to 1-2 with the loss after giving up four earned runs on seven hits while striking out five in 4.0 innings of work.
Doan retired the first eight batters he faced and the Green and White gave him the lead with a pair of runs in the bottom of the third. Wilson doubled to shallow right to bring home Hvozdovic and D'Avanzo followed with a sacrifice fly to deep center for a 2-0 advantage.
Graduate student
Luke Tanner (Los Angeles, Calif.) started the fourth with a single and stole second before scoring on Guest's single through the left side. Guest scored when Julian reached on an error with one out to make it 4-0, Wilson drove in two more runs and ended up on third aided by a throwing error on his infield single before scoring on D'Avanzo's RBI ground out to stretch the Beavers' lead to 7-0.
Babson continued its onslaught in the fifth with a two-out rally. Guest was plunked, Sadowsky followed with a single through the right side and Hvozdovic drove them both in with a double to right field to extend the margin to 9-0. Hvozdovic also knocked in the Beavers' final run of the game in the seventh with a one-out single to right that brought Guest home from second to make it 10-0.
UMass Dartmouth, which finished the day with 11 hits, broke up Babson's shutout bid with a three-run ninth inning. Vezina led off with a double and scored, SanAntonio plated graduate student Joe Muzio (Rockport, Mass.) with an RBI single and senior Matt Klett (Barnstable, Mass.) drove in classmate Tre Coleman (Pawtucket, R.I.) with a two-out base hit to left.
Babson returns to action on Tuesday when it hosts MIT at 3:30 p.m., while UMass Dartmouth takes on Eastern Nazarene on Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
GAME NOTES
• The Beavers are now 16-23 all-time against UMass Dartmouth and have won 10 of the last 15 games between the team.
• Babson is 6-0 this season when allowing five runs or less.
• The Beavers have scored at least 10 runs in seven of their last nine games.
• The Green and White, which finished with two doubles on Monday, has at least one extra-base hit in every game this spring.
