Baseball Falls to Clark University 11-6
Worcester, Mass. – Clark scored the game’s final six runs – highlighted by Phil DiMarco’s (Bellingham, Mass.) inside-the-park homerun in the bottom of the sixth – to knock off visiting Framingham State, 11-6, on Thursday afternoon at Granger Field.
With the win the Cougars improve to 6-7 overall, while the Rams slip to 5-7.
After Framingham took a 1-0 lead in the first, Clark answered back almost immediately as Stephen DeMartino (East Haven, Conn.) crushed a homerun to left field to lead off the frame. The Cougars went on to add another run in the inning and then three more in the second on a Ron Bathrick (North Haven, Conn.) two-run single and a DiMarco groundout.
The Rams bats came to life in the third when they pushed four runs across on separate two-run singles by Danny Chiasson (Watertown, Mass.) and Steven Tramontozzi (Watertown, Mass.) to even the score.
Framingham then took the lead in the fourth on a Cory Ketterer (Plymouth, Mass.) double to left, making the score 6-5.
That lead proved to be short-lived however, as Kevin Kopec (Katonah, N.Y.), Mitch DeLorenzo (Berlin, Conn.) and Peter Lewis (Gardiner, Maine) all drove in runs in the bottom of the fourth.
Clark scored another run in the fifth when Derek Dubois (Haverhill, Mass.) singled, stole second and then came around to score on a pair of wild pitches.
Jonathan Merritt (Milton, Mass.) picked up his career-high tying third win of the season for the Cougars, going 5.2 innings, allowing eight hits, six runs (only one earned), while striking out five and walking none.
Framingham reliever Kevin Loveless (Wakefield, Mass.), who came in after starter Tommy Lindberg (Stratford, Conn.) lasted only two innings, took the loss following his two innings of work in which he allowed four hits and three earned runs.
Dubois led the Cougar attack with a career-best 3-for-4 day with two runs scored, while DeMartino, DiMarco and Kopec all had two hits.
Ketterer, meanwhile, paced the Rams with a 3-for-5 showing and a pair of doubles.
Framingham is back in action on Friday when they visit Rhode Island College at 3:30 p.m., while Clark returns to NEWMAC action on Saturday with a road doubleheader at Coast Guard.
Release courtesy of Clark Sports Information.