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Winner Merrimack MER 14-9
2
American Int'l AIC 6-21
Winner
Merrimack MER
14-9
13
Final
2
American Int'l AIC
6-21
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Merrimack MER 0 1 4 1 5 2 0 0 0 13 18 0
American Int'l AIC 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 6 0

W: Browne (4-2) L: Karp, Brian (2-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Bested By Merrimack on Cold Afternoon

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. The American International College baseball team dropped a, 13-2, decision to Merrimack College in cross-divisional Northeast-10 action this afternoon from Bedard Field.

With the loss AIC falls to 6-21 overall and 1-11 in conference action while the Warriors improve to 14-9 on the year and 4-2 in the NE-10.

Merrimack simply outslugged the Jackets on the afternoon with an 18-6 advantage in hits. They opened the scoring in the top of the second as Matt Nicholson lifted the first pitch he saw high and far over the left field fence for the solo homer and they added four more in the third with the big blow being a bases clearing double to right center from Sean O'Neill for the 5-0 lead.

Merrimack scored a single run in the fourth before blowing the game wide open with a five run top half of the fifth with another bases clearing double, this time by Tyler Tyne, being the big blow as they opened up an 11-0 margin.

The Jackets threatened in the bottom of the fifth putting runners at the corners after a double by senior Karl Kapinos (South Hadley, Mass.) and single by classmate Eddie Ritch (Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.), but they were unable to push a run across as a groundout closed the frame.

The Warriors grabbed two more in the top of the sixth before AIC finally got on the board as they loaded the bases on three consecutive walks to open the frame and senior Brett Bohl (Ludlow, Mass.) crossed home on a wild pitch while classmate Tyler Geffert (Hopedale, Mass.) followed on a sacrifice fly by senior Mike Coyne (El Cajon, Calif.) for the 13-2 deficit.

Both bullpens then settled in and combined for scoreless baseball over the final three innings of play. Junior Brian Karp (Bellmore, N.Y.) absorbed the loss falling to 2-2 after allowing six runs on seven hits over three plus innings of work.

Senior Colin Sledzik (Higganum, Conn.) and freshman Dimitri Bryant (Ludlow, Mass.) and JD Lehouiller (Chicopee, Mass.) each pitched a single inning of scoreless relief for AIC.

AIC returns to the road this weekend with a twin bill at Stonehill on Saturday with first-pitch scheduled for 12 p.m.

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