Saturday, February 29
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1:00 PM
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Long Ball Lifts BC Over Fairfield
February 29, 2020 | Baseball
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Three first-inning home runs led the way for the Boston College baseball team in a 19-6 win over Fairfield at War Memorial Stadium on Saturday afternoon. The Eagles snapped a five-game slide and improved to 4-5, while the Stags remained winless at 0-4.
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Sophomore right fielder Sal Frelick (Lexington, Mass.) set the tone with a home run to right to lead off the game. Each of the first five BC batters reached base and the scoring continued with a three-run home run to straight away center by senior left fielder Joe Suozzi (Glen Cove, N.Y.) and concluded with a two-run homer to right by sophomore catcher Peter Burns (Reading, Mass.).
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The Eagles added a single run in the second and third to lead 8-0 entering the fourth. Fairfield then cut the BC lead in half with a four spot in the fourth. The Stags got the first six to reach against sophomore right-hander Joe Mancini (Fairfield, Conn.), beginning with a pop-up single that landed untouched in front of home plate. With four runs in, two on and nobody out, Mancini buckled down and retired the next three in order.
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Mancini (1-1) returned to pitch the fifth inning and earn his first win of the season. He was charged with four runs, all earned, on six hits and three walks with a career-high seven strikeouts.
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Boston College got back all four runs, and more, with five scored in the top of the sixth. Senior shortstop Brian Dempsey (Potomac, Md.) lead of with an infield-single to third. Two runs followed and the inning was capped off with a bases-loaded triple by senior center fielder Dante Baldelli (Cumberland, R.I.).
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Right-hander Trey McLoughlin (0-1) went three innings in the start for the Stags. He allowed eight runs on 11 hits and no walks with two strikeouts. Third baseman Charlie Pagliarini delivered a three-run double in a 1-for-3 game.
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Suozzi finished the game 2-for-3 with four RBI and three runs. Sophomore third baseman Cody Morissette (Exeter, N.H.) was 3-for-4 with three runs, leading the way for six Eagles with multi-hit games.
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DETAILS
Score: Boston College 19, Fairfield 6
Records: Boston College 4-5, Fairfield 0-4
Location: World War Memorial Stadium (Greensboro, N.C.)
Attendance: 102
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BC HIGHLIGHTS
The Eagles and Stags have a Sunday re-match set or 1 p.m. Sophomore right-hander Emmet Sheehan (Darien, Conn.) gets the ball for BC.
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Sophomore right fielder Sal Frelick (Lexington, Mass.) set the tone with a home run to right to lead off the game. Each of the first five BC batters reached base and the scoring continued with a three-run home run to straight away center by senior left fielder Joe Suozzi (Glen Cove, N.Y.) and concluded with a two-run homer to right by sophomore catcher Peter Burns (Reading, Mass.).
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The Eagles added a single run in the second and third to lead 8-0 entering the fourth. Fairfield then cut the BC lead in half with a four spot in the fourth. The Stags got the first six to reach against sophomore right-hander Joe Mancini (Fairfield, Conn.), beginning with a pop-up single that landed untouched in front of home plate. With four runs in, two on and nobody out, Mancini buckled down and retired the next three in order.
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Mancini (1-1) returned to pitch the fifth inning and earn his first win of the season. He was charged with four runs, all earned, on six hits and three walks with a career-high seven strikeouts.
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Boston College got back all four runs, and more, with five scored in the top of the sixth. Senior shortstop Brian Dempsey (Potomac, Md.) lead of with an infield-single to third. Two runs followed and the inning was capped off with a bases-loaded triple by senior center fielder Dante Baldelli (Cumberland, R.I.).
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Right-hander Trey McLoughlin (0-1) went three innings in the start for the Stags. He allowed eight runs on 11 hits and no walks with two strikeouts. Third baseman Charlie Pagliarini delivered a three-run double in a 1-for-3 game.
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Suozzi finished the game 2-for-3 with four RBI and three runs. Sophomore third baseman Cody Morissette (Exeter, N.H.) was 3-for-4 with three runs, leading the way for six Eagles with multi-hit games.
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DETAILS
Score: Boston College 19, Fairfield 6
Records: Boston College 4-5, Fairfield 0-4
Location: World War Memorial Stadium (Greensboro, N.C.)
Attendance: 102
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BC HIGHLIGHTS
- Frelick lead off the game with a home run down the right field line.
- Suozzi (three-run) and Burns (two-run) followed with home runs of their own in the first.
- Dempsey was hit by a pitch, stole second and scored on a Suozzi single in the second.
- Burns added a RBI-double in the third and Baldelli singled to give all nine Eagles a hit just twice through the order.
- With two runs in, Baldelli made the sixth a five-run frame for BC with a three-run triple to right-center.
- Fairfield leads the all-time series vs. BC, 6-4, having last met in 1982.
- BC homered for a season-high three times; the most since a four-home run game vs. Clemson (5/21) at the 2019 ACC Championship.
- BC scored 15 or more runs for the first time since scoring 19 against Maine (5/14/19).
- BC registered 20 or more hits for the first time since at Duke (4/15/17).
- Baldelli hit his first triple of the season and fourth of his career.
- Baldelli tallied his second multi-hit game of the season and 22nd of his career.
- Burns hit his first career home run to snap a 0-14 slump.
- Burns picked up his first multi-hit game of the season and seventh of his career.
- Dempsey logged his sixth multi-hit game of the season and 45th of his career.
- Frelick's leadoff-home run in the first was his second long-ball of the season and sixth of his career.
- Frelick became the first Eagle to hit a leadoff-home run in the first inning since Donovan Casey at Northeastern (4/5/17).
- Frelick's hit streak climbed to a career-best nine games and reached base streak reached 17.
- Morissette recorded his third multi-hit game of the season and 25th of his career.
- Samrath Singh made his collegiate debut 359 days after Tommy John surgery to become the first Sikh player on record in Division I baseball history.
- Ryan Smith struck out a career-high three batters in a career-high two innings.
- Suozzi hit his first home run of the season and fifth of his career.
- Suozzi extended his career-best hit streak to 13 games and reached base streak to 17.
- Suozzi collected his fifth multi-hit game of the season and 20th of his career.
The Eagles and Stags have a Sunday re-match set or 1 p.m. Sophomore right-hander Emmet Sheehan (Darien, Conn.) gets the ball for BC.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Mancini, Joe (1-1)
L: McLoughlin, Trey (0-1)
Batting:
2B: Walsh, Barry 1 ; Cimini, Vince 1 ; Jimenez, Ramon 1 ; Burns, Peter 1
3B: Baldelli, Dante 1
HR: Frelick, Sal 1 ; Suozzi, Joe 1 ; Burns, Peter 1
RBI: Frelick, Sal 1 ; Walsh, Barry 1 ; Cimini, Vince 1 ; Suozzi, Joe 4 ; Yish, Jacob 1 ; Cunningham, Jack 1 ; Gold, Luke 1 ; Burns, Peter 3 ; Baldelli, Dante 3
SF: Cunningham, Jack 1 ; Gold, Luke 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Frelick, Sal 1 ; Walsh, Barry 1 ; Dempsey, Brian 3 ; Cimini, Vince 1 ; Morissette, Cody 3 ; Suozzi, Joe 3 ; Cunningham, Jack 1 ; Jimenez, Ramon 2 ; Burns, Peter 2 ; Landwehr, Parker 1 ; Baldelli, Dante 1
SB: Dempsey, Brian 1 ; Morissette, Cody 1
HBP: Dempsey, Brian 1 ; Baldelli, Dante 1
PO: Gold, Luke 1
Batting:
2B: Pagliarini, Charlie 1 ; Becchetti, Mike 1
RBI: Reynolds, Dylan 1 ; Pagliarini, Charlie 3 ; Esposito, Nick 2
Base Running:
RUNS: Guerrera, Justin 1 ; Ryan, Dan 1 ; Reynolds, Dylan 1 ; Halpin, Ian 2 ; Ferriero, Matt 1
HBP: Becchetti, Mike 1
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