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Baseball Falls To Northeastern, 2-0 In Beanpot Championship
April 25, 2007 | Baseball
April 25, 2007
BOSTON, Mass. - Less than a week after downing Harvard at Fraser Field, the Eagles took on the Northeastern University Huskies in the 18th annual Beanpot championship game held at Fenway Park in Boston, and Northeastern captured its fourth Beanpot trophy and first since 2002 with a 2-0 win over the Eagles in a rain shortened eight inning game.
Both starting pitchers were on their game as neither allowed a run through the first five innings. The Huskies threatened in the top of the fourth when James Donaldson singled through the left side putting runners on first and second. But, Ratliff got Frank Pesanello to ground out to third on a nice backhand play from Eric Campbell to end the inning.
Jett Ruiz doubled to lead off the bottom of the fifth for BC, and Brandon Ziemann followed with a walk, giving the Eagles their first threat. A Ryan Hutchinson sacrifice bunt advanced both runners one base but consecutive groundouts would not allow BC to score as McDonald would get out of the inning unharmed.
The Huskies finally got to Ratliff in the top of the sixth as Mike Lyon doubled off the wall in left to lead the inning off. Lyon would score the very next batter when Dan Milano singled to center, giving Northeastern a 1-0 lead. After advancing to second on the throw home, Milano advanced on consecutive fly balls to right field, making the score 2-0 Huskies.
With one out in the bottom of the sixth, back to back errors and a hit batsman loaded the bases for BC. But, the Eagles could not capitalize as they flied out twice to kill their rally.
BC starter Ted Ratliff pitched eight strong innings, allowing only two runs on five hits, while striking out eight but it would not be enough as Huskies pitching held the Eagles scoreless.
The Eagles are back in action on Friday, April 27 when they open a weekend home series against Virginia Tech. First pitch is scheduled for 2:30 p.m.
