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Beau Root was 2-3 with a triple and an RBI in the win.
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Winner Middlebury MIDBASE 4-3
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Occidental OCCIDENT 4-14
Winner
Middlebury MIDBASE
4-3
18
Final
7
Occidental OCCIDENT
4-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Middlebury MIDBASE 5 4 5 0 0 0 1 0 3 18 15 1
Occidental OCCIDENT 1 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 1 7 12 5

W: Dessart, Spencer (1-0) L: J. Moore (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Early Start Powers Panthers Past Occidental 18-7

The Middlebury baseball team scored 14 of its 18 runs in the first three innings of the game en route to an 18-7 victory over Occidental on Sunday night.
 
HIGHLIGHTS
  • The Panthers opened the contest with five runs in the first inning. A single from John Collins scored Beau Root, before a three-run homer from Lucas Flemming cleared the bases. Later in the inning, with runners on first and third, Sammy Smith stole second and an error from the catcher allowed David Byrne to score and give Middlebury a 5-0 edge.
  • The Tigers answered with a run in the bottom of the first to make it 5-1.
  • In the second, the Panthers tacked on four more runs. With the bases loaded, Jack Stolper walked and Flemming hit a sacrifice fly to center, before a single by Bryne plated two more runs and increased the lead to 9-1.
  • Middlebury continued to add to its advantage in the third. With Zip Malley on first, Root tripled to right field to bring him around to score. Andrew Gough followed with a single to center which scored Root to make the score 11-1. Later in the inning with the bases loaded, Stolper was hit by a pitch to send Gough home and back-to-back sacrifice flies from Flemming and Byrne helped extend the Panthers' lead to 14-1.
  • Occidental scored two runs in the fifth. A single by Jeff Cambra brought Miles Capobianco and Sancho Llamas home to cut the deficit to 14-3.
  • The Tigers continued to chip away at Middlebury's lead. In the bottom of the sixth, Jonathan Marshall led off the inning with a solo home run. Later in the inning, a wild pitch with the bases loaded allowed Matthew DiCicco to score and a sacrifice fly from Martineau plated Llamas to bring Occidental within eight (14-6).
  • That was as close as the Tigers would get. Middlebury added runs in the seventh and ninth to extend the advantage to 18-6.
  • Occidental added a final run in the bottom of the ninth for the 18-7 Middlebury triumph.
NOTES
  • Flemming's five RBIs during the win was a single-game career-high.
  • This was the first meeting in the all-time series between the two programs.
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