BENTLEY BESTS BASEBALL 7-2
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (April 29,
2007) - Tom Haugh was 3-4 with a home run and two runs
scored as Bentley College posted a 7-2 Northeast-10 baseball
victory over American International College Sunday afternoon at AIC
Park. The Falcons improve to 19-24 overall and 15-10 in
league play, while the Yellow Jackets are now 8-26 and 4-20 in the
league.
Haugh gave Bentley a 1-0 lead in the second when he led off the frame with a home run to right. The Falcons would score two more times in the third to take a 3-0 lead when Brett Damato and Bob Savoy scored on back-to-back groundouts.
David Dest (Orange, Conn.) would cut the lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the fourth when he hit a two-run home run to right that also plated Tyler Cooke (Brattleboro, Vt.), who led off the inning with a single. That would be the only scoring until the top of the ninth when the guests would score four times with two outs, two on a double by Tim Denehy and two more on a throwing error to account for the 7-2 final.
Denehy also registered a pair of hits for Bentley, which outhit AIC 9-5. Brett Fistes earned the win for the Falcons, working the first five innings and allowing three hits while fanning four. Tim Cadran allowed two hits over four innings of relief work.
Cooke led AIC with a pair of hits, while Jeff Rustico (Plantsville, Conn.) and Matt Rhodes (Charlestown, R.I.) also had base hits for the Yellow Jackets. Bryan Soltis (Plantsville, Conn.) worked the first seven innings and scattered six hits while fanning two.
AIC returns to action Monday when it hosts Saint
Rose in a 3:30 contest.