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Price broke a decades-old school record, tallying 181 career strikeouts.
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Winner Middlebury MIDBASE 19-7
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Williams WILLIAMS 10-15
Winner
Middlebury MIDBASE
19-7
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Final
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Williams WILLIAMS
10-15
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Middlebury MIDBASE 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 5 10 0
Williams WILLIAMS 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 7 3

W: Price, Alex (4-0) L: W. Jeffries (2-4)

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Middlebury MIDBASE 19-8, 5-4 NESCAC W
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Winner Williams WILLIAMS 11-15, 4-8 NESCAC W
Middlebury MIDBASE
19-8, 5-4 NESCAC W
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Final
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Williams WILLIAMS
11-15, 4-8 NESCAC W
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 R H E
Middlebury MIDBASE 3 0 1 0 2 1 3 0 0 0 10 19 2
Williams WILLIAMS 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 3 1 11 18 0

W: B. Peponis (1-1) L: Atwood, Jackson (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Secures Series At Williams With Doubleheader Split, Price Breaks School Record

The Middlebury baseball team opened Saturday action with a 5-1 victory at Williams, but fell 11-10 in the day's second contest. The Panthers edged the Ephs 9-7 on Friday night to claim the best-of-three NESCAC West series. 
 
GAME 1 HIGHLIGHTS
  • All of the scoring for the first game came in the fourth inning for both teams.
  • Nathan Samii singled to start the inning and later raced home on a base-hit down the right field line by Jack Stolper. Andrew Gough scored on an error by second base, and Stolper crossed home plate on an RBI single by Sammy Smith to increase the advantage to 4-0. The Panthers capped the scoring late in the inning with the bases loaded. After the Ephs intentionally walked NESCAC home-run leader John Collins, Mitchell Schroeder belted a double to left field to bring in Smith and Chris Borter for the 5-0 lead.
  • Williams robbed Middlebury of a shutout during its half of the inning. With runners on the corners, Cole Whitehouse reached on a fielder's choice, sending Jacob Cohn scampering home for the final 5-1 score.
GAME 2 HIGHLIGHTS
  • Collins belted a two-run double in the first inning, helping Middlebury jump out to an early 4-0 lead after four. 
  • The Ephs battled back in their half of the fourth, utilizing a sacrifice fly and a single to cut the advantage to a pair (4-2). 
  • The Panthers responded with six-unanswered runs over the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to take a decisive 10-2 advantage. Schroeder, Baker Angstman, Collins, Stolper and Samii each drove in a run during the span with base-hit singles.
  • Williams wouldn't go away, cutting the deficit down to six (10-4) in the seventh, scoring on a wild pitch and a single.
  • The Ephs continued chipping away at the lead in the eighth inning, making it 10-7 with a trio of runs.
  • An error in the ninth brought home one run, before a single by James O'Connor scored a pair of Williams' players to knot the contest 10-10.
  • With two outs in the 10th and runners on first and second, Eph David Driscoll smacked a single to right field to bring home the winning run for the 11-10 Williams' win. 
NOTES
  • With 10 strikeouts over seven innings of work, Alex Price ran his career total to 178, breaking a decades-old school record. The previous mark of 177 was set in 2002. Price also improved to 15-4 in his career, tying for second on Middlebury's list. He currently holds the single-season strikeouts mark (85 in 2022), but this year's current total of 56 moved him into a tie for fourth place. 
  • In game one, every Panther in the lineup recorded at least one hit. Despite being intentionally walked during Saturday's first game, Collins has hit safely in eight-consecutive contests. 
  • Kyle McCausland has at least one hit in 22 of Middlebury's 27 games. In the nightcap, he went 5-6 at the plate, joining Collins as one of 13 Panthers tied for second place with five hits in a single game. 
Middlebury has a pair of mid-week non-conference games, before traveling to Amherst for the NESCAC West regular-season finale next weekend. 
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