Box Score THE BASICS
Score: WPI 7, Emerson 4
Pitching Decision: W - Doug Rives (4-0); L - Jack Fox (2-1); S - Mike Duclos (2)
Records: Emerson Lions (8-5, 1-2 NEWMAC); WPI Engineers (12-5, 2-1 NEWMAC)
Location: Northboro, Mass. (New England Baseball Complex)
Date: March 28, 2017
The Lead: Senior Mitch Moormann (Hollywood, Fla.) paced the Lions at the plate going 2-for-4 with a single, triple and a run scored in the Emerson baseball team's 7-4 NEWMAC loss on Tuesday afternoon at the hands of the WPI Engineers at the New England Baseball Complex.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Ryan Tropeano began WPI's home half of the first inning with a triple that was followed by an RBI single into left by Nick Comei to put the Engineers on top, 1-0.
- Emerson made their way onto the board within the top of the fourth and pulled Emerson in front, 2-1, as junior Joey Jacobs' (Concord, Mass.) two-out two-RBI made its way into left.
- Within the Engineers half of the fourth, they were able to cross two runs of their own to put the lead back in their favor at 3-2.
- Due to a miscue during Austin Linder's sacrifice bunt, Tyrone Patterson safely reached home for the equalizer before Evan Lacroix plated the go-ahead run on a RBI fielder's choice.
- The game remained 3-2 until WPI's half of the seventh when Anthony Capuno singled Steven Gallagher in for the fourth Engineers run.
- In the following frame, the Engineers scratched a trio of runs across to push their lead to five at 7-2.
- A dropped ball into right kicked off the Engineers three-run eighth that was followed by an RBI single into the right side by Matt Howard and a sacrifice fly from Capuno.
- The Lions began to cut away at the Engineers five-run cushion and tacked on two runs to bring them within three at 7-4 in the top of the ninth.
- After Moormann batted a triple to begin the inning, he later scored on junior Neil Perry's (Middleboro, Mass.) sacrifice fly to right.
- Emerson loaded up the bases with two outs that helped setup junior Pablo Feldman (Mill Valley, Calif.) to plate on a failed pickoff attempt.
- With the winning run at the plate, Duclos wrapped up the inning unscathed with a game-ending strikeout.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS
- Along with Moormann, Feldman went 1-for-4 with two runs scored and Jacobs went 1-for-3 at the plate with a pair of RBIs.
- Fox dipped to 2-1 and tossed six innings as he surrendered three runs (one earned) on six hits with four walks and fanned two batters.
- Sophomores Tim Mainella (Dover, N.H.) and Jake Mitchell (Monroe, Ohio) relieved Fox with a combined 1.3 innings and allowed three runs to cross (two earned) on a pair of hits and three walks.
- Tropeano batted 2-for-5 at the plate for WPI with a single, triple, one run scored and an RBI and Capuno went 2-for-3 and drove in a pair of runs.
- Rives improved to 4-0 with the win with three hits and surrendered a pair of runs to match nine strikeouts through 6.2 innings on the mound.
- Keith Scales made one relief inning appearance and allowed three walks, while Duclos nabbed his second save of the season with two runs (one earned) and three hits with a walk and two strikeouts.
- WPI outhit Emerson, 9-6, as the Lions stranded 12 runners on the bags and the Engineers left 13 on the bases.
UP NEXT
- Emerson returns to Campanelli Stadium on Friday, March 31 to kick off its home schedule and welcome Southern Vermont at 3:30 p.m.
- WPI will host Fitchburg State at the New England Baseball Complex on Thursday, March 30 at 3:30 p.m.
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