Home  Baseball Baseball - Bears Upset Babson; Remain Alive
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Baseball - Bears Upset Babson; Remain Alive |
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 Jesse Karr had his best outing of the season and picked up the win as the Bears eliminated Babson.
Improving to 11-17 overall, Coast Guard stays on the field to face
third seed Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in today's final
elimination game and the right to advance to tomorrow's championship
round against the host Lyons. Babson falls to 20-13 with its second
loss of the tourney.
The Bears had seven multi-hit performances, with freshman Riley
Beecher going 3-for-5 with two runs and a pair of RBI and
classmate Mike Massaro driving in four on two hits. Senior John Jeffares went 3-for-5 and scored twice, while classmate Ryan Milligan had three runs and two hits.
Also registering a pair of hits each were freshmen Tyler Babkiewich, Cameron Carroll, Nolan Gallagher and Eric Gerken. Gallagher and Gerken plated two apiece, with Gallagher drawing two walks and Gerken doubling twice.
Junior Jesse Karr picked up the pitching win, allowing four earned runs on nine hits with five strikeouts and four walks in 7.1 innings.
For Babson, junior Billy Besinger was 3-for-4 with a run scored, while six other Beavers had a hit each, including senior Peter O'Toole, who scored twice. Sophomore hurler Trevor MacNeill was saddled with the loss after surrendering four earned runs and nine hits with four strikeouts and two walks in six-plus frames.
Coast Guard jumped out in front with a pair of unearned runs in the
first, as a Babson error and two bunt singles led to the two-run
frame. The Beavers sliced their deficit in half during the bottom of
the inning, when senior Dave Ahern's two-out single to center scored a run. The Bears countered with another two-run frame in the third, recording three singles, including an RBI knock from Massaro.
Meanwhile, Karr found his groove after the first, retiring 12 straight
batters at one point, including turning in three consecutive 1-2-3
frames. Karr's streak was aided by an outstanding inning-ending
diving catch by center fielder Gallagher in the third, followed by two
hit-saving defensive plays from second baseman Jeffares and right
fielder Milligan.
The Bears pushed a run across in the fourth to take a 5-1 advantage.
Babson narrowed the gap to three with a run in the home half of the
sixth, but Coast Guard answered by plating two in the seventh for a
7-2 advantage. Massaro notched his third RBI in the game after
drawing a bases-loaded hit by pitch.
The Beavers posted an unearned run in the bottom of the seventh but came no closer. |
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