Posted: Mar 25, 2016
BASEBALL EXPLODES FOR 19-9 WIN AT UMASS-BOSTON
BOSTON, Mass. – The Brandeis University baseball team put up its largest offensive output since 2009 yesterday with a 19-9 victory over UMass Boston in their first appearance at the Beacons' new field at Monan Park.
OFFENSIVE OUTBURST
- Brandeis scored runs in each of the first seven innings, including multiple runs in five of them.
- The Judges posted their highest run total since defeating Hastings University, 19-15, on a February trip to Florida in 2009.
- It was the most runs scored in New England since a 20-6 win in April of 2008 that was also against UMB.
INDIVIDUAL STARS - HITTING
- Junior outfielder Ryan Tettemer (Westfield, Mass./Suffield Acad.) homered for the second-straight game as part of a 3-4 performance with two RBI and four runs scored.
- Tettemer also walked twice to reach bases in five of seven plate appearances.
- Rookie 2B Benjamin Bavly (Newton, Mass./Newton South) matched Tettemer with four runs scored.
- Bavly also reached base five times, going 2-4 with a walk and twice getting hit by a pitch.
- One of his two hits was his fourth triple of the season, leaving him one shy of the single-season record set by George Banks in 1979.
- Senior CF Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon) had hits in the first four inning and scored runs in the first three.
- He finished up with his second career four-hit game, going 4-5 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI.
- Senior 1B Greg Heineman (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) and senior DH Ryan Healy (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) each drove in four runs – on one hit each.
- Heineman drew two bases-loaded walks,m had a sacrifice fly and an RBI single.
- Healy plated a run with a groundout in the second inning, then cleared the bases for a three-run triple in the seventh.
INDIVIDUAL STARS – PITCHING
- Senior Sam Miller (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury) improved to 2-3 on the season after holding the Beacons to four hits in six innings of work.
- Miller allowed three runs (two earned), struck out five and walked three.
- Sophomore Bradley Bousquet (Athol, Mass./Athol) tossed two-thirds of an inning and rookie Daniel Schupper (Villanova, Pa./Harriton) threw the final 2.1 frames.
UP NEXT
- The Judges play back-to-back games on Monday and Tuesday, at Salem State and their home opener against Bridgewater State, a makeup game from last week.