Baseball Defeats Westfield State 9-6 in MASCAC Championship Round

Westfield, Mass. – The third seed Framingham State University baseball team defeated top seed and host Westfield State University 9-6 this evening in the championship round of the 2018 Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference (MASCAC) Baseball Tournament.

With the victory, the Rams are now 21-18 on the season and have forced the if necessary game which will be played tomorrow in Westfield at 2 p.m.  The winner of that game will receive the MASCAC's automatic bid to the 2018 NCAA Division III Baseball Tournament.

The Rams came out swinging in the game putting up seven runs in the first two innings.  In the top of the first senior Cameron Borrelli (Peabody, Mass.) plated the first run with an RBI single and junior Kyle Dembrowski (Natick, Mass.) drove in two with a single to center.  In the top of the second, senior Kyle Pileski (Bristol, Conn.) doubled scoring a run and junior Jordan Pallazola (Rockport, Mass.) followed with an RBI double of his own.  Junior Kyle Lippert (Carlsbad, Calif.) plated two with a single to center.

The Rams added two more in the top of the fourth to take a 9-0 lead.  Pallazola grounded out scoring a run and Lippert reached on an error allowing the second run to cross the plate.

The Owls got on the board with five in the bottom of the fifth including a three run homer from Anthony Crowley cutting the Rams lead to 9-5.  A solo homer from Crowley in the ninth accounted for the final run of the game.

Junior Kyle Hodgson (Berkley, Mass.) earned the victory for the Rams going eight innings and allowing five earned runs on 11 hits with eight strikeouts.