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Baseball - Toll, Daleiden Lead Bears Past Bucs
Jed Daleiden hit his first career-homer, a three-run shot, in the win.
NEW LONDON, CONN.--(4/7/10)--Freshman Nate Toll pitched six solid innings and classmate Jed Daleiden had a pair of hits including a three-run homer to highlight a four-run fifth leading Coast Guard to an 11-5 win over Massachusetts Maritime in a non-conference game.
Mass. Maritime (4-7) scored a pair of runs in the second to take a 2-1 lead on RBI singles by freshman Paul Furtado and junior Michael Vargas.
Coast Guard which had scored a run in the first on an RBI groundout by sophomore Mike Salerno tied the game in the third when freshman Mike Massaro stole home. Massaro had a big day for the Bears as he was 3 for 4 with a double, RBI, two stolen bases and three runs scored.
The Bears (6-13) took the lead for good in the fourth on an RBI triple by freshman Ed Sella and Coast Guard scored four times in the fifth as Salerno had an RBI single before Daleiden’s first career homer pushed the lead to 7-2.
The Bucs scored three times in the seventh on a two-run double by Vargas and an RBI single by junior Andrew Saari to cut the deficit to 7-5.
Coast Guard put the game away with four runs in the eighth as Massaro hit a bases loaded single to left which was mishandled allowing all three runs to score before freshman Nolan Gallagher added an RBI double to close the scoring.
Toll (3-1) worked six innings and allowed seven hits and two runs, one earned while walking none and striking out two.
Freshman Tyler Vieira allowed a pair of hits and struck out three over the final two innings to pickup his second save of the season.
Junior Nick Levitre (0-2) worked the first five innings and allowed eight hits and seven runs, six earned while walking three and fanning four in the loss.
Salerno also had two hits for Coast Guard while Vargas led the Bucs with three hits and three RBI’s and Saari added a pair of hits.
