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GW Baseball Drops Rubber Match to St. Bonaventure
4/7/2007 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 7, 2007
ARLINGTON, VA - George Washington (11-20, 3-6 A-10) committed five errors and managed just five hits as they fell to St. Bonaventure (10-15, 4-5 A-10) in the rubber match of their three game Atlantic 10 Conference series, 5-2, early Saturday afternoon.
The Bonnies' starter, Cody Vincent (1-4), held the Colonials in check all day as he pitched a complete game and struck out nine batters.
St. Bonaventure pushed across a run in the top of the first for the early 1-0 lead. Brian Pellegrini reached on an infield single, advanced to second on a GW throwing error and then came around to score on Joe Rizzo's single into center field. The Bonnies added to their lead in the second, scoring a run on a squeeze play at the plate.
GW's starting pitcher Scott Swinson (Ellicott City, MD/Centennial) pitched well, retiring 10 of 11 batters during a stretch between the second and sixth innings. Swinson's (3-4) lone mistake, in the sixth, was a Joe Rizzo home run that made it 3-0 in favor of the Bonnies.
After Mickey Shupin's (Sea Girt, NJ/Wall) single that led-off the game, GW did not record another hit until Tom Zebroski's (Port Washington, NY/Paul Schreiber) single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth.
With Zebroski standing on first, Michael Parker (Newton, MA/Newton South) swung at the first pitch he saw and crushed it over the left field fence for a two-run home run (9), cutting St. Bonaventure's lead to just one run, 3-2.
Swinson left the game with the bases loaded and one out in the top of the seventh. He allowed just five hits and five runs, two earned, while striking out three in 6.1 innings of work. Pat Lehman (Fair Lawn, NJ/Fair Lawn) entered in relief of Swinson. St. Bonaventure pushed across two runs in the inning, taking advantage of the fourth GW error of the day to extend their lead, 5-2.
George Washington will play at George Mason on Tuesday, April 10, at 3:00 p.m. Earlier this season, on March 14, the Colonials defeated the Patriots, 5-4.
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