Boston College
Kentucky (Charleston Crab House Challenge)
Baseball Gets Nipped By Kentucky, 5-4
February 22, 2003 | Baseball
Feb. 22, 2003
CHARLESTON, S.C. - For the second day in a row, the baseball team took an early lead but could not hold it as Boston College dropped a 5-4 decision to Kentucky on Saturday, Feb. 22 at Riley Park on Day Two of the Charleston Crab House Challenge.
After the Eagles (0-2) tied the game at 4-4 in the top of the eighth, Caleb Stewart executed a safety squeeze that scored the Bat Cats' Spencer Graeter from third with the go-ahead run in the bottom of the inning. Rob Bland entered the game in the top of the ninth and, despite putting two runners on base, notched his first career save.
Boston College jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the second. Senior Matt Lederhos (Westwood, Mass.) led off the inning with a single to center, advanced to third after a failed pickoff attempt and scored on an error. Then, with two outs, senior Vinny Scavone (Seffner, Fla.) singled to right, went to second on a passed ball and came around on a double to right by junior Garrett Greer (Peabody, Mass.).
Kentucky (3-2) got one back in the bottom of the frame on Mike Breyman's solo shot to right, then tied it in the bottom of the fourth when Graeter scored on Stewart's two-out, bases-loaded fielder's choice.
The Eagles reclaimed the lead in the sixth as Lederhos drove in sophomore Drew Locke (Weymouth, Mass.) from first with a double.
Once again, the Bat Cats answered back in their half of the inning. Russ Rutherford's base knock through the box brought in Breyman and Gordon Tyler, giving his team a 4-3 advantage.
Sophomore Ryan Morgan (Weymouth, Mass.) drew BC even in the eighth when his one-out sacrifice fly plated junior Josh DiScipio (Schenectady, N.Y.), but Stewart and Graeter teamed up in the bottom of the inning on the squeeze play to give Kentucky the victory.
Junior Ryan Leahy (Salem, Mass.) had three hits in the game while Lederhos and Scavone each had two.
Sophomore Chris Lambert (Manchester, N.H.), the BIG EAST Preseason Pitcher of the Year, went six innings, giving up four runs (all earned) on six hits. He struck out three and walked three. Sophomore Jake Marsello (Lynn, Mass.) was handed the loss.
Boston College goes in search of its first win of the year tomorrow when it faces Drexel at 1:30 p.m.
