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Baseball Splits with Rutgers
April 21, 2001 | Baseball
April 21, 2001
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Chris Gannon (Arlington, Mass.) pitched a complete game to lead Boston College to a victorious 4-2 decision in its first win over Rutgers (31-12-0, 12-7-0) in five years and third since 1946. Rutgers notched the 5-2 win in game one behind the strong pitching of Bobby Brownlie. BC improved to 19-18-0 overall and 4-10 in the BIG EAST. The two teams square off Sunday in Piscataway, N.J. Game time is noon.
Gannon (4-2) allowed only eight hits and one earned run in 9.0 innings with six strikeouts and three walks. After giving up four of his eight hits in the first two innings, Gannon retired the side in the next three stanzas, including three batters on strikes in the third. Rutgers scored a run then loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth but Gannon thwarted the late offensive surge by getting Matt Wolski to ground out into a fielder's choice play.
The Eagles seized their first opportunity, putting up a run on Chris Rosado's groundout. The Scarlet Knights knotted the score at one in the second inning, but it didn't stay that way for long. With the bases juiced, Rosado was knocked in by Jarett Mendoza's free pass in the fourth inning after Rosado and Brian Durkin led off the inning with back-to-back singles, and Mackor reached on a walk. Josh DiScipio's sacrifice fly drove in Brian Durkin extending the Eagle advantage to 3-l.
BC tacked on another run in the eighth inning. Jeff Mackor, who was caught trying to stretch his shot to right center into a triple, drove in Durkin, who led off the inning with a two-bagger of his own. Durkin collected three hits and scored twice in that game.
Buddy Gallagher got the loss for Rutgers, giving up 10 hits in 7.1 innings with two walks and six strikeouts.
The Eagles were limited to only four hits - two of which came off the bat of Brian Macchi - in the first game. Jarett Mendoza and Brian Durkin each drove in a run.
In a pitchers' duel, Brownlie allowed two earned runs, striking out five and walking one through 7.0 innings to register the win. His BC counterpart, Jed Rogers, surrendered just one more hit (five) with three walks and three strikeouts in 5.2 innings.
Rutgers scored twice in the first before BC halved the lead in the fourth. Val Majewski's RBI single in the fifth inning would prove to be the game winner. That was one of two Scarlet Knight runs in that inning. The two teams matched one run each in the sixth for the final 5-2 mark.
