Season-high 11 runs lifts Baseball in game 1; Late surge falls short to split with Whitman College
IRVING, Texas – The University of Dallas baseball team (3-2) were able to claim an 11-2 victory in game one of two contests versus Whitman College (1-2) on Saturday afternoon. The Crusaders would drop a 6-4 result in the second of a doubleheader to end a two-game winning streak. That same affair produced Whitman College's first victory of the 2015 campaign.
In the early contest, Dallas took advantage of four miscues from the Missionaries and posted its second double-digit hitting performance in a row with 12. The scoring output was also a season-high for the Navy and White.
UD got on the board in the bottom of the second inning and would notch at least a run in five of the next six counting that one. Whitman nipped the deficit to a pair in the top of the fourth frame.
The Crusaders received their first home run of the campaign by senior Trevor Keele (Edgewood, Texas) as he clobbered one beyond the left field wall for his first individual of the year. The first baseman tallied just the one hit for a round-tripper, and would be a two-run shot to give the home team a 5-1 edge.
A quartet of runs in the seventh inning extended the edge from 7-1 at the time and helped improve Dallas to 2-1 at Crusader Field.
Sophomore Alex Stack (Keller, Texas) posted his second-straight, three-hit afternoon and matched that amount with runs scored; while adding an RBI. A trio of players totaled multiple hit performances including: sophomores Zach San Roman (Miami, Fla.), Patch Healy (Plano, Texas), and JP Fasone (Englewood, Colo.).
Keele, San Roman, Healy, and Fasone contributed with two RBI each as the Crusaders tallied a season-best 10 in the victory.
Senior Martin Cronin (The Woodlands, Texas) made his debut and tossed five innings of one-run ball. He scattered six hits, walked one, and struck out five. Sophomore William Marshall (Frisco, Texas), freshman Jack Brunk (Lemont, Ill.), and Sophomore Eric Felchak (The Woodlands, Texas) each saw time on the bump.
Whitman College had four players record multi-hit games with Johnny Chow, Peter Carmichael, Paul Heywood, and Adrian Vela garnering totals in that category.
Garrett Atkinson took the loss with 3.1 innings and four runs (2 earned) and five hits surrendered. Matt Hill was also touched for six runs off five hits in three innings.
Game two Dallas was not able to generate enough offense until the final two frames in a 6-4 setback. WC pushed a run in the first inning, and despite 14 hits, would not inflict damage on the board until a three-run seventh.
The Navy and White would tally a run in the eight and push a trio in the final at bat.
Junior Rene Vargas Jr. (San Antonio, Texas) and senior Luciano Villanueva (San Antonio, Texas) led the Dallas offense with two hits apiece and were credited with two of three RBI.
Sophomore Blake Palmer (Coppell, Texas) was saddled with the loss in 5.1 innings of one run ball. He danced around eight hits and two walks while fanning three. Marshall threw another pair of innings, giving up two runs, two hits, a walk, and two punch outs. The righty combined to go four innings on the mound.
Earning the win for the Missionaries in their first victory of the season was Robert Maislin, whol tossed eight dazzling frames. He allowed five hits, one run while giving two free passes and striking out six.
UP NEXT
Dallas wraps up a three-day weekend with a single game back in Dr. Pepper Ballpark in Frisco, Texas. Carleton College will be the opponent for the Navy and White, and first pitch is at 4 p.m.