Boston College Athletics
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Seton Hall
Baseball Sweeps Seton Hall
May 06, 2001 | Baseball
May 6, 2001
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - - Boston College's Chris Rosado (Stamford, Conn.) laid down a suicide-squeeze bunt to drive in Vinny Scavone (Charlton, Mass.) for the 3-2, 14th-inning victory over Seton Hall in game two Sunday in Chestnut Hill. With the 5-3 win in game one, BC clinched its ninth-consecutive victory, including sixth straight over BIG EAST foes, to improve to 28-20-0 overall and 10-11 in the league.
The Eagles have never won a BIG EAST series over Seton Hall. The two teams first met in 1990.
Vinny Scavone led off the 14th inning with a double down the left field line and moved up on Jarett Mendoza's third sacrifice bunt of the day, setting the stage for the game-winning stroke off reliever Isaac Pavlik. For the third-consecutive game, Seton Hall scored first, this time taking the 2-0 lead in its first at bat. BC halved the Pirate edge in the third, when Ryan Leahy had a bunt single and advanced to second base on a bad throw by the third baseman. He then moved to third on a wild pitch and scored when the third baseman's fielder's choice (off Mike Hubbard) throw to the plate was not in time. Leahy scored the game-tying run in the eighth inning. Hubbard's sacrifice and Lederhos' groundout placed him at third after he led off the inning with a single. He came home on Joe Kealty's RBI single to right center.
BC got a strong start from Matt Lederhos (Westwood, Mass.), who gave up six hits and two earned runs in 9.0 innings of work while fanning eight batters. He retired 12 consecutive batters from the fourth to the eighth inning. Mark Sullivan (Winchester, Mass.), who entered in the 10th, surrendered only two hits in 5.0 solid innings of work for the win. The Pirates threatened in the 11th when Casey Grimm powered a one-out triple. Brian Leighton was intentionally walked placing runners at the corners before his brother, Kevin, struck out swinging. The next batter, Joe Scott, was also issued a free pass to load the bases before Sullivan fanned Adam Arslanian to shut the door.
After Joe Cuervo came home on a wild pitch in the first contest, Lederhos scored an unearned run thanks to Brian Macchi's single up the middle, knotting the game at one after one. Lederhos returned the favor by plating Leahy in the third to tie the score at 2-2. The teams traded runs in the fourth inning, but Joe Kealty launched a two-run single during the fifth for the 5-3 lead.
Jed Rogers (Westerly, R.I.) picked up his third win. He gave up three runs on seven hits in 5.0 innings. Matt Elfeldt fanned two in 1.0 inning of work, and Mark Sullivan preserved the two-run advantage in the ninth for his fifth save of the season.
Boston College welcomes Notre Dame May 12-13. Game time is 12 noon on Saturday.
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