Boston College
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Baseball Splits With St. John's
May 10, 2003 | Baseball
May 10, 2003
JAMAICA, N.Y. - Sophomore Chris Lambert (Manchester, N.H.) gutted his way through seven innings and senior shortstop Ryan Leahy (Salem, Mass.) drove in the eventual winning run as the baseball team nipped St. John's, 3-2, in the first game of a doubleheader Saturday, May 10 at the Ballpark at St. John's.
In game two, Anthony Varvaro twirled a five-hit shutout as the Red Storm blanked the Eagles, 13-0.
Lambert won his seventh game of the year and his third straight BIG EAST contest, but it wasn't easy. Boston College (29-19, 11-9 BE) held a 3-0 advantage heading into the bottom of the sixth, but St. John's came up with two runs on RBI singles by Blake Hershelman and Anthony DeRosa.
In the bottom of the seventh, Lambert got the first two outs of the inning before walking the next two batters. Shortstop Mike Rozema -- the BIG EAST's leading hitter -- then stepped to the plate. With a 1-1 count, Rozema hit a soft grounder to sophomore first baseman Ryan Morgan (Weymouth, Mass.), who flipped to Lambert to retire the side. Of the 125 pitches Lambert threw in the game, 35 were in the last frame.
Lambert went the distance for the sixth time this season, giving up six hits while striking out five and walking five.
Sophomore third baseman Tom Mackor (Salem, N.H.) got the Eagles on the board in the second with an RBI single to right.
The next inning, junior catcher Garrett Greer (Peabody, Mass.) golfed a solo home run to left for his first round-tripper in a BC uniform.
With one out and a runner on second in the fifth, Leahy punched a Joe Reid offering through the right side of the infield to score Boston College's third run. Leahy went 2-for-2 in the game.
Varvaro was dominating in the second game, striking out seven and walking four en route to his first complete game of the year. The Eagles didn't help themselves any as they left 11 men on base.
The Red Storm scored once each in the first, second and fourth. They then plated three in the sixth, four in the seventh and three more in the eighth. Five of the runs were unearned as Boston College committed five errors.
The two bright spots for the Eagles were Mackor, who went 2-for-2, and junior second baseman Josh DiScipio (Schenectady, N.Y.), who roped a base hit to left in his fifth and final at bat of the second game to extend his hitting streak to 23 games, the longest in the BIG EAST this season. The previous long was 22, held by Rozema. DiScipio tied the mark when he smacked an infield single off of Reid's glove on the first pitch of the first game.
The series concludes with a single game Sunday, May 11 at noon.
