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Box Score 2 Williams completed a three-game sweep of Middlebury via 6-3 and 12-6 wins on Saturday in a NESCAC West doubleheader played in Tucson, Arizona. The Panthers (0-9, 0-3) return to action Friday and Saturday when they play a three-game NESCAC West series at Amherst. First pitch of Friday's single game is at 3:30 p.m. while Saturday's doubleheader is scheduled to begin at noon.
In game one, each team scored in the first inning as Middlebury's Dylan Sinnickson reached on an error and came around to score on an RBI groundout by Jason Lock. The Ephs (6-3, 3-0) responded in the bottom of the frame via an RBI double by Adam Regensburg and a run-scoring groundout from Phil McGovern.
The Panthers took the lead again in the top of the third when Lock smacked a two-run single scoring Sinnickson, who once again reached on an error and Johnny Read, who singled. The Ephs answered with two runs in the fourth and two more in the sixth for the win.
Cooper Byrne (0-2) went the distance for Middlebury, allowing six runs on nine hits. Max Araya went 2-4 and Ryan Rizzo was 2-3 at the plate, while Lock went 1-3 with three RBI and Sinnickson scored two runs.
In game two, the teams traded runs with the Ephs scoring in the bottom of the first on an RBI groundout by McGovern. The Panthers answered when Rizzo singled and later came around to score on an RBI single off the bat of Read.
Williams took a 4-1 lead with three in the third thanks to a two-run double by Jack Roberts and a McGovern RBI triple. The Panthers came back and tied the game in the top of the fourth on a Brendan Donohue RBI single followed by a two-run base knock off the bat of Araya.
In the back-and-forth game, Williams took the lead for good in the bottom of the fourth with five runs on five hits. Middlebury pulled to within three at 9-6 in the top half of the next frame on a two-run from Donohue, scoring Garrett Werner, who was hit by a pitch and Raj Palekar, who got on base with a double.
Williams scored single tallies in the fifth, seventh and eighth innings for the final score.
Robert Erickson (0-2) suffered the loss for Middlebury, surrendering 10 hits and nine runs, eight earned, over 3.1 innings of work. Donohue went 2-5 in the game with three RBI from the leadoff spot, while Rizzo also had a multi-hit game going 2-3 with a walk and two runs scored.
