Brendan Looby
Brendan Looby

Game One Thriller Leads to Sweep, Wildcats Get Better of Griffins

4/1/2015 10:55:00 PM

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Norristown, Pa. - (4/1/2015) – After a fiery first inning, Chestnut Hill College found themselves in a dog fight with Wilmington University. Knotted 4-4 in the fifth inning, it would be a seventh-inning, one-out, two-run double that lifted the Wildcats to a 6-4 game-one win. Using the momentum, the visitors made it a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) sweep with a 10-0 decision in the nightcap. Junior designated hitter Brendan Looby (Sewell, N.J.) went 3-for-4 in the opener, while junior left fielder Joseph Monaghan (Doylestown, Pa.) and junior catcher Robert Slagle III (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) recorded the Griffins' only hits in game two.
 
After the deflating opener, Wilmington University (18-7, 8-0) provided plenty of support for a combined two-hitter from the Wildcat pitching staff. Sophomore pitcher Jake Wersinger (Greenville, Del.) kept Chestnut Hill College (12-7, 7-3) off balance for the first 5.2 innings while the respective efforts of freshman pitcher Zach Rumford (Wilmington, Del.), junior pitcher Peter Monahan (Ringoes, N.J.), and senior pitcher Kyle Menchaca (Wilmington, Del.) sealed the victory with 3.1 innings of hitless relief.
 
Game one was a fire-fight from the opening pitch as a lead-off double from senior center fielder Michael McLaughlin (Philadelphia, Pa.) and an run-scoring single to left center field from senior third baseman Taylor Steen (New Egypt, N.J.) answered the Wildcats first-inning tally, 1-1. The Griffins scored once more in the frame on a two-out single up the middle from freshman second baseman Alec Craig (Hammonton, N.J.), 2-1, but the Wildcats roared back with two runs in the top of the third, 3-2, only for Chestnut Hill College to bring all thing even on a series of errors in the bottom of the frame, 3-3. The CACC rivals echoed each other in the fifth inning, 4-4, leaving the Wildcats' seventh-inning as the difference maker in a 6-4 final.
 
The baseball team returns to Latshaw-McCarthy Field on Saturday, April 4, when they host Bloomfield College in a 12:00 p.m. CACC doubleheader.
 
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