Baseball Drops Doubleheader to Bryant on Sunday
The Central Connecticut State University baseball team allowed five runs in the ninth inning of game two and dropped both ends of a doubleheader on the road at Bryant on Sunday. Senior Tommy Meade drove in four runs in game one but Bryant won 6-5. In the second game senior Sean Allaire drove in three but Central lost 10-9. The Blue Devils are now 10-11 overall and 6-6 in Northeast Conference action after dropping three of four over the weekend to Bryant.
The Central Connecticut State University baseball team allowed
five runs in the ninth inning of game two and dropped both ends of
a doubleheader on the road at Bryant on Sunday. Senior Tommy
Meade drove in four runs in game one but Bryant won 6-5. In
the second game senior Sean Allaire drove in three
but Central lost 10-9. The Blue Devils are now 10-11 overall and
6-6 in Northeast Conference action after dropping three of four
over the weekend to Bryant.
Bryant won the first game 6-5, scoring a single run in the bottom
of the seventh to claim the victory.
The Blue Devils, who trailed 5-2 entering the seventh, put three
runs on the board to tie the score 5-5. Allaire, one RBI, and
Meade, two RBI, provided the scoring punch for the Blue Devils in
the inning.
Central trailed 2-0 after the Bulldogs put up two runs in the
second inning. They tied the score 2-2 in the third inning. With
two outs in the inning, the Blue Devils had a pair of runners on
base when Meade singled to drive them both in.
Meade finished the game with four RBI to lead Central. Allaire
drove in the other run. Meade, senior Richie Tri and junior
Sean Miller-Jones all had
two hits in the loss.
In game two Bryant took a 2-0 lead with two runs in the first
inning. The Blue Devils answered with a pair of runs in the
third. Allaire and senior Anthony Scialdone each drove
in a run.
Bryant scored two more in the bottom of the inning to take a 4-2
lead. Central answered again with two in the fourth to tie it
4-4. Freshman catcher Andy
Lalli and Miller-Jones each had an RBI to tie the game.
Bryant score one in the fifth, but Central answered with five
straight runs to lead 9-5. They plated one in the sixth on a
sacrifice fly by Allaire. They scored two more in the eighth when
Tyler Casserta and
Miller-Jones each scored, one on an error and the other on a wild
pitch. The two runs in the ninth came when sophomore Danny
Hickey reached on a fielder's choice and Allaire added another
sacrifice fly.
Bryant answered and capitalized on a pair of errors in the bottom
of the ninth inning, scoring five runs and claiming the 10-9 win.
Central made four errors in the game, leading to a total of six
unearned runs in the loss.
Meade and Allaire both ended the day with four RBI. The Blue
Devils dropped three of four to Bryant over the weekend.