Baseball Splits High-Scoring Doubleheader With UNC Wilmington

Saturday, March 4

Wilmington, N.C.

12:00 P.M.

Columbia University

2-3

UNCW

4-6

Columbia

UNCW

Photo by: Stephen Blue / Sideline Media Productions

Baseball Splits High-Scoring Doubleheader With UNC Wilmington

3/4/2023 9:11:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score 1 Box Score 2 Game 1 Box Score (PDF)Game 2 Box Score (PDF)

Lions offense combines for six home runs and 13 extra-base hits on Saturday

WILMINGTON, N.C. — Columbia baseball defeated UNC Wilmington 15-12 in game one before falling 15-9 in game two of Saturday's doubleheader at Brooks Field.

Columbia (2-4, 0-0) will aim for the series win against UNC Wilmington (5-6, 0-0) on Sunday. The start time has been moved up to noon in the series finale of the four-game set.

Game 1 Recap:

Columbia matched its run total from Friday's series opener and pulled out a 15-12 slugfest victory in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader. The contest featured seven home runs between the two teams and 13 total extra-base hits.

Lions starting pitcher JD Ogden gave Columbia four solid innings, scattering four hits and allowing three runs while striking out two.

Seth Dardar got the offense going with a two-run shot to right-center field in the top of the second inning to put the Lions up 2-0. UNC Wilmington would take its first lead of the series in the home fourth when Alec DeMartino scored on a balk and Aiden Evans singled in two runs to give the Seahawks a 3-2 lead.

Top 2 | See ya ball!👋Seth Dardar follows up his smooth double play with a two-run shot to right that puts the Lions ahead 2-0! 🔥#RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/qZ5kwak2UC
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

A half inning later, Columbia was back on top thanks to back-to-back home runs from Skye Selinsky and Hayden Schott. Griffin Palfrey would expand the lead with a two-run double as the Lions took a 7-3 lead. Palfrey then scored on a wild pitch later in the inning.

Top 5 | Two's a pair! Skye Selinsky mashes a hanging slider to left, and the Lions have their second two-run home run of the day. Columbia now leads UNC-Wilmington 4-3. 👋🔥#RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/8q2fjdCniz
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

Top 5 | Back to back jacks for the Lions! Hayden Schott goes oppo taco, and the Lions extend their lead to 5-3. 🌮🔥#RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/mqCtzIjo45
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

In the top of the sixth, Schott's second RBI of the game came on a single to center field to make it 9-3. UNC Wilmington put together five hits and answered with a six-run bottom half of the inning to tie the game, 9-9.

Columbia re-gained the lead with a six-spot of its own in the eighth and took a 15-9 lead. The inning was capped off on an EJ Kreutzmann three-run home run.

Top 8 | Oppo Taco two times! 🌮 EJ Kreutzmann blasts a three-run shot to left, and Columbia now leads 15-9. The Lions have now scored 15 runs in back-to-back games! 🔥#RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/2NS5b1bYDm
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

UNC Wilmington would add two runs in the ninth but Will Parkinson closed the door and earned the win. Parkinson tossed 3.2 innings after relieving Justin Tucker in the sixth inning.

LIONS WIN!

Four long balls from Selinsky, Schott, Dardar, and Kreutzmann help give us the game 1⃣ victory.

📊:
Hage 3-for-6, 2 2B, 2 R
Schott: 3-for-5, HR, 2 RBI
Eberly: 2-for-4, RBI
Dardar: 2-for-2, 3 RBI, 3 R
Palfrey: 1-for-4, 3 RBI

Game 2⃣ coming up shortly!#RoarLionRoar pic.twitter.com/qFt61T0UWq
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

Game 2 Recap:

Columbia continued where it left off from the first two games of the series in the second game of the day. Before UNC Wilmington came to bat, Columbia had a 4-0 lead from a Schott home run and Cole Fellows two-run single.

Dane Miller started on the mound for Columbia and was chased in the third inning after going two-plus innings and allowing five runs on five hits. In the third, James Vaughn came in to relieve Miller after UNC Wilmington tied the game at 4-4 on a Tanner Thatch two-run home run. Game two featured six home runs, including two off the bat off Thatch. Miller was charged with five runs in his first start of the year.

After UNC Wilmington's three-run third, Andy Blake launched his first home run of the season to tie the game at 5-5.

Top 4 | Tie ballgame! Andy Blake pummels a hanging curveball over the wall in left, and the Lions and Seahawks are knotted at 5. #RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/yac7Nkzvih
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

UNC Wilmington's offense scored a combined nine runs in the third and fourth innings to take a 10-5 lead after four innings. Dillon Lifrieri hit a solo home run in the fifth to make it 11-5.

Columbia scratched across two runs in the sixth to slim the Seahawks' lead to two. Blake and Selinsky each drove in a run in the inning.

In the bottom of the seventh, UNC Wilmington blew the game open with a three-run inning to make it 14-7. Thach doubled in a run, Lifrieri scored on a wild pitch, and then DeMartino smacked an RBI triple.

The Lions' final runs of the day came in the eighth inning when Anton Lazits doubled down the left field line to score Schott and Selinsky. UNC Wilmington added one more run in the bottom of the inning and closed out the 15-9 win.

Top 8 | Anton Lazits laces a 2 RBI double down the left field line, and the Lions make it 14-9.#RoarLionsRoar pic.twitter.com/HudTgJOIMv
— Columbia Baseball (@CULionsBaseball) March 4, 2023

Jafar Vohra and Derek Yoo pieced together the rest of the innings for Columbia after Miller and Vaughn. The right-handed relievers combined allowed five runs on seven hits and struck out three.

For Columbia, Schott now has three home runs in the first two weeks of the season and has three straight games with two runs driven in. His batting average is up to a team-best .440 through six games this season.

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