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Baseball Tops Massachusetts 12-11 In 10 Innings
April 29, 2004 | Baseball
April 29, 2004
Junior Jason Delaney's (Hanson, Mass.) game-winning, two-out double in the 10th inning lifted the Boston College baseball team, 12-11, over host Massachusetts, Thursday, April 29, in Amherst. The Eagles climbed to within one game of .500, with a record of 19-20.
The two teams combined for 33 hits, 23 runs and six errors in over three-and-one-half hours of action that culminated into an extraordinary Eagle defensive stand, stunting UMass' bid to drive in the game-winning run with two on and one out in the last of the 10th. The Minutemen placed runners on second and third before Ryan Morgan (Weymouth, Mass.), who earned his second save, struck out Bill Rankin and jammed Sean Sarno up for a flare popout to Eagle second baseman Josh DiScipio in the game-ending play.
Offensively, Morgan, BC's original designated hitter for the game, aided the Eagles offensive cause by reaching base four times in six plate appearances. He scored three runs and slammed his fifth home run of the season. First baseman Dave Preziosi (Oradell, N.J.) and shortstop Ryan Leahy (Salem, Mass.) contributed three hits each, accounting for nearly half of BC's hit production (14) on the night.
BC scored in five of nine innings and squandered a 7-3 lead after two-and-one-half innings of play before falling behind 8-7 after five frames at which point Morgan launched his two-run homer to lift the Eagles up by one. In the last of the eighth, UMass knotted the count at 11, thanks to Joe Durepo's RBI single off the eventual winning pitcher Mike Gauthier (Salem, Mass.).
BC hosts Georgetown for a BIG EAST doubleheader on Saturday, May 1. Game time is 12 noon.
