Columbia
Brown (Game 1)
Brown Captures Pair of One-Run Games in Doubleheader Sweep of Columbia
4/9/2011 5:31:00 PM | Baseball
PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Despite two impressive starts on the mound from Pat Lowery and Stefan Olson, the Lions dropped their doubleheader to Brown on Saturday afternoon by scores of 2-1 in the opener and 6-5 in an 11-inning game two.
Game One
Brown sratched out an unearned run in the bottom of the first to take a 1-0 lead against Columbia starter Pat Lowery, who allowed just three hits in the game.
Lowery struck out six batters and walked two in six innings of work, allowing just one earned run, a solo home run to Matt Colantonio in the fifth inning that broke a 1-1 tie.
Columbia tied the game in the fourth after Alexander Aurrichio was hit by a pitch from Brown starter Matt Kimball. With two outs, Jason Banos belted a run-scoring double to score Aurrichio all the way from first, tying the game at 1-1.
Kimball was equally effective, limiting the Lions to three hits in the game. Columbia put runners on first and second with one out in the seventh inning but Kimball struck out the final two batters to end the game.
Game Two
Jon Eisen cracked his first home run of the season to start things off for Columbia in the top of the first inning, but the Bears came back with two runs in its half of the first to take a 2-1 lead.
From there, Columbia starter Stefan Olson shut down the Bears, holding them scoreless after the first inning. Olson ultimately threw eight innings, allowing two runs, one earned, on five hits. Olson did not walk a batter and struck out five in his second straight outstanding start.
Trailing 2-1 going into the fourth, Jason Banos led off with a single to center and was moved to second on a sacrifice bunt by Alex Godshall. Two batters later, Nick Cox came through with a two-out single to score Banos and tie the game at 2-2.
The Lions went ahead 4-2 in the fifth when Dario Pizzano cracked a leadoff double and Nick Ferraresi cranked a two-run home run on the first pitch he saw to give Columbia a two-run cushion.
Columbia made it 5-2 in the eighth on a Jon Eisen RBI single as the game moved to the ninth inning. The Bears put the first three runners on base aginst Lion reliever Harrison Slutsky. An RBI single by Wes Van Boom made it 5-3 and Tim Giel came on to get the first out on a sacrifice fly to make it 5-4, then induced a groundball by Josh Sheridan that Sheridan beat out at first base to extend the game and score the tying run, making it 5-5.
Giel got the final out of the frame on a groundball as the two teams went to extra innings with the score tied at 5-5.
Andrew Bakowski came on in relief for Brown with one out in the 10th and a runner at second and helped keep the game tied. In the 11th, Giel got the first two outs, but allowed an infield single by Sheridan, who promptly stole second base and moved to third as the catcher's throw went into center field. Josh Feit then came through with a run-scoring single to score the winning run, giving the Bears the 6-5 win.
Columbia will be back in action on Sunday, April 10 in a doubleheader against Yale beginning at noon in New Haven, Conn.
NOTES:
Pat Lowery's start in game one was his first complete game of the season ... Stefan Olson's eight innings pitched were a career high for the sophomore ... Nick Ferraresi's home run was his third of the season, which ties for the team lead with Jason Banos ... Jon Eisen went 3-for-6 with two RBI in game two ... the Lions wrap up play against Rolfe Division opponents at Yale on Sunday.
