Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Myrtle Beach, S.C. – (2/26/2016) – Another spring of Chestnut Hill College baseball began today, Friday, February 26, as the Griffins returned once again to the Ripken Experience in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for a two days of competition in the Northeast Challenge. A pair of hits from senior first baseman Patrick Campion (Norristown, Pa.) and a run-scoring fielder's choice from junior shortstop Jonathan Baturgil (Freehold, N.J.) highlighted the Griffins' effort in the first game, versus Molloy College, who won the late afternoon affair by a 4-2 margin. The Scarlet and Gold bats awoke in the nightcap as both Campion and senior catcher Robert Slagle III (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) both homered to compliment a three-hit performance from Baturgil in a 10-2 slacking of the University of New Haven (UNH).
 
In the season opener, two eighth-inning runs sunk Chestnut Hill College (1-1) as the Lions used a lead-off single and a botched sacrifice bunt the allowed junior shortstop Brian Murphy (Elmont, N.Y.) the two go-ahead runs. Molloy College (1-0) scored their first run in the third inning, using a one-out single and steal from senior designated player Deilyn Guzman (East Hampton, N.Y.) to score on a single to right field from junior third baseman Kevin Podell (Wantagh, N.Y.), 1-0. The Griffins immediately retaliated in the top of the fourth inning with a lead-off walk from Baturgil and a pair of Lions errors even the score, 1-1. Molloy College struck again in the sixth inning, turning a lead-off single and a one-out double to right center, 2-1, but the Scarlet and Gold answered again in the top of the seventh inning with a pair of one-out walks and a Baturgil grounder back to the mound that allowed the pinch runner, senior outfielder Dalton Cozart (Commerce Twp., Mich.), to scoot home, 2-2.
 
Campion singled in the second and eighth innings and senior pitcher Zachary Crim (Horsham, Pa.) took the no decision despite limiting the Lions to one earned run on six hits and two walks. He struck out three in seven innings of work.
 
Chestnut Hill College erupted for five first-inning runs in their evening contest opposite UNH. Three straight walks led-off the frame, allowing senior designated hitter Brendan Looby (Sewell, N.J.) to plate the first run with a sacrifice fly to shallow right field before a Campion single to right field and a Slagle triple scored three more only for a Baturgil grounder to first base pushed the fifth run across, 5-1.

The Griffins added to the advantage in fourth inning on a series of Charger errors, 6-1, in the fifth inning on lead-off Slagle home run, a Baturgil single, and a two-out triple from sophomore second baseman Alec Craig (Hammonton, N.J.) and in the sixth inning on a Campion solo shot, 9-2. The Griffins tenth run came on a two-out, eighth-inning, Baturgil double, 10-2.
 
Baturgil and Slagle both finished with three hits apiece while Campion finished the day 4-for-8 (.500). Sophomore pitcher Patrick Kelley (Pipersville, Pa.) earned the win (1-0), allowing one earned run on two hits and five walks. He struck out five in five innings and was well supported by a bullpen that combined to hold the Chargers to one run on three hits and three walks over the final four frames.
 
The Chestnut Hill College baseball team continues their time at the Northeast Challenge tomorrow, Saturday, February 27, with a 4:00 p.m. contest against Southern Connecticut State University.