DAVENPORT, Fla. – The Carleton College baseball team absorbed its first loss of its Spring Break trip, falling 25-8 to the University of Chicago, a program that is receiving votes in the latest D3baseball.com national poll.
The game was scoreless until the top of the third inning when the Maroons (11-4) plated six runs, three of them with two out and another coming after a strikeout and a wild pitch. Chicago pushed seven more runs across in the fourth, including a trio of unearned tallies.
Carleton (3-3) scored its first three runs during the bottom of the fourth.
Ryan Chang tripled home the first run, and he then scored on a wild pitch. A walk to
Will Schnepf and a Jack
Hommeyer single led to the other tally.
A bases-loaded walk to
Aaron Rice forced home a Carleton run in the fifth, and Schnepf followed with a two-run single.
The final two Carleton tallies came in the bottom of the seventh via a sacrifice fly by
Jordan Appelbaum and another RBI hit by Schnepf.
The bottom half of the Chicago lineup was responsible for the majority of the damage in this one as Max Weisner, Eddie McCarthy, and Jack Sharp combined to go 11-for-14 with nine runs scored and 15 RBI.
Russell Kwinter picked up the win for the Maroons, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits and a walk with five strikeouts over 4.0 innings.
Ananth Iyer took the loss, yielding six runs in 2.2 innings on the bump.
Up Next for the Knights
After an off day on Friday, Carleton will face both Fredonia State and Purchase College on Saturday, March 22.
