AUBURNDALE, Fla. - March 16, 2018 - The Colby-Sawyer baseball team fell to Beloit in both ends of Friday's doubleheader played at the Lake Myrtle Complex. The Buccaneers held on to win game one 6-4 and then earned the sweep by winning game two 5-0.
Colby-Sawyer drops to 2-8 after its spring break trip to Florida and the RussMatt Baseball Tournament. The Chargers are slated to return to action next week with a couple of road games. Beloit improved to 6-3.
GAME ONE - BELOIT 6, COLBY-SAWYER 4
Beloit put four across in the first inning on two hits.
The Chargers came back with one in the bottom half of the inning on a
Charlie Danaher RBI single that scored
Brendan Thurber. Colby-Sawyer got another run back in the second off a run-scoring single from
Dougie Avellino.
The Bucs pushed their lead back to three after a bases loaded RBI hit by pitch put them in front 5-3 in the fourth.
Colby-Sawyer kept fighting in the bottom of the sixth. Avellino knocked in his second run of the game and
Tim Donovan scored on a failed pickoff attempt to bring the Chargers within a run.
Beloit was able to tack on an insurance run in the top of the seventh and the Chargers went down in order in the bottom half to end the game 6-4 in favor of the Buccaneers.
Mike Weeden earned the victory for Beloit after 5.1 innings. He surrendered three runs on eight hits and struck out four. Keith Haina picked up the save after pitching a perfect 1.1 innings.
Andrew Carbone threw 2.2 scoreless innings of relief, while
Owen Cottle pitched the final inning and gave up one unearned run on one hit.
Avellino, Thurber and Donovan each finished with two hits.
GAME TWO - BELOIT 5, COLBY-SAWYER 0
The Buccaneers scored single runs in the first, second and fourth and received a pair of RBI singles to score twice in the third to account for their five runs.
Jamie Huntley earned the win for Beloit after going five innings of three-hit scoreless baseball.
Cottle tossed two more scoreless innings with two strikeouts out of the bullpen for the Chargers.
Charlie Danaher,
Drew Inglesi and
Danny McCrystal recorded the Colby-Sawyer hits.
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