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MIDDLETOWN, CONN.--(3/26/09)--Wesleyan (6-7) opened its home baseball season by hosting Coast Guard (4-11) and unleashed a 16-hit attack while riding the arm of senior Jon Sargent enroute to a 16-1 victory.
Wesleyan is now 79-24 vs. Coast Guard in the long-standing series and has won 15 in a row since last losing in 1992 to the Bears.
With starter Sargent holding Coast Guard to just three hits and one unearned run over his seven innings of work, Wesleyan built a 14-1 edge. The bats of sophomore Julian Sonnenfeld, junior Brice Kelly and senior Garrett Lamborn accounted for nine of the Cardinals’ 16 safeties. Wesleyan batted around in both the 1st and 3rd innings to chase in five runs in each frame. Sonnenfeld and Kelly highlighted the opening inning by driving in two runs each, Sonnenfeld with a double down the right-field line and Kelly with a towering drive over the left-field fence for his first homer of the season.
Wesleyan’s five runs in the 3rd were all unearned as a Coast Guard error, one of six Bear miscues in the contest, extended the inning, allowing Wesleyan to do all its damage with two outs. Sonnenfeld finished the game 4-for-6 with two runs and four RBI. Kelley went 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBI while Lamborn was 3-for-5 with a run and two RBI.
Wesleyan upped its margin to 12-0 before the Bears got on the board in the 5th inning when Sargent failed to backhand a ball at first base while covering the bag, allowing senior Bill Birch, who had two of Coast Guard’s five total hits, to score. Wesleyan added four more runs by game’s end for the final margin.
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