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Le Moyne Defeats Baseball, 4-2
May 14, 2011 | Baseball
May 14, 2011
CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - Junior Marc Perdios matched a career high with three hits but the Boston College baseball team lost to Le Moyne, 4-2, Saturday afternoon at Eddie Pellagrini Diamond at Commander Shea Field.
Perdios went 3-for-4 with his first career triple and scored a run. Senior Matt Hamlet had a pair of base hits and classmate Mike Sudol hit an RBI double. Senior Nate Bayuk threw 2.2 shutout innings in relief and sophomore Hunter Gordon threw a perfect 2.0, striking out the side in the eighth.
BC (16-30) outhit the Dolphins at the plate, 9-7, but left eight men on base in the game. The Eagles left two men stranded in the third, fourth and fifth innings.
Le Moyne's (23-29) Jeff Tardiff pitched a complete game, striking out seven and walking two. He threw 126 pitches and 79 of them were strikes.
Pat Wiese scored two of the four runs for the Dolphins while Brett Botsford and Ryan Mahoney both had a RBI. Seven different players provided the team's seven hits and all of them were singles.
Sunday's game against Le Moyne has been moved up to 11 a.m. in an attempt to avoid rain that is forecasted for the day.
Le Moyne took an immediate lead on Saturday with a run in the top of the first. Wiese was hit by a pitch to leadoff the game and moved to second on a wild pitch. After the next two Dolphins looked at strike three, Mahoney pulled an RBI single down the third base line for the game's first run.
BC tied the game in the bottom of the second with a run after junior Anthony Melchionda and Sudol hit consecutive doubles with one out.
The Dolphins responded with a pair of runs in the third to regain the lead, 3-1. Wiese and Matt Marra singled with one out to put men on first and second and then Botsford hit the hole on the left side for an RBI single. A soft groundout to first moved both runners into scoring position with two outs and a wild pitch scored Marra.
Le Moyne added to the lead with another run in the fifth. Kyle Kalaka led off and drew a four-pitch walk and was sacrificed up to second base. Marra hit a comebacker that Matt Alvarez fielded cleanly. Kalaka broke for third and Alvarez went there, but the throw went into the outfield which allowed him to score.
The Eagles cut the lead in half, 4-2, with a run in the sixth but couldn't get any more. Perdios hit a one-out triple past the glove of the diving right fielder and classmate Brad Zapenas drove him in on the next pitch with a groundout to second.
Tardiff retired the final 10 BC batters to secure the win.
