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Gentile - Thiel
Dale Armbruster
Tyler Gentile #33
2
John Carroll JCU 5-8
3
Winner Thiel THI 7-2
John Carroll JCU
5-8
2
Final
3
Thiel THI
7-2
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
John Carroll JCU 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 7 1
Thiel THI 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 3 8 0

W: Teconchuk (2-0) L: Lapaglia, Aaron (1-2)

9
Winner John Carroll JCU 6-8
2
Thiel THI 7-3
Winner
John Carroll JCU
6-8
9
Final
2
Thiel THI
7-3
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
John Carroll JCU 0 2 3 0 2 0 2 9 17 3
Thiel THI 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 2 4 5

W: Maddern, Brandon (2-3) L: K. Forrester (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | By Dale Armbruster, Graduate Assistant

Baseball Blasts Thiel In Second Game Of Saturday Doubleheader

With the conference slate beginning next week, John Carroll baseball had an opportunity to build some momentum on the road. After a last at-bat loss in game one, JCU forced a split in Greenville, Pa. with the Thiel College Tomcats.

GAME ONE

The bats warmed up for John Carroll, but a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh gave Thiel a 3-2 victory in game one.

Aaron Lapaglia falls to 1-2 after a 6 1/3 inning performance in which he gave up all three runs.

Thiel scored a run in the bottom of the first on a Dan Koller groundout to first base. The Tomcats added a second run in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Josh Doody.

The Blue Streaks used a seventh inning rally to pull even. Jacob Schriner doubled to left field, and Patrick Scholla drove home pinch-runner Jason Large in the next at-bat. With one out, a wild pitch moved Rob Cifelli and James Molnar to second and third. A Mike Raschilla groundout drove home Molnar.
In the bottom of the seventh, Matt Elko flew out to left field, driving home the winning run.

Cifelli was 2-for-4 with a stolen base. Schriner was 2-for-3.

GAME TWO

John Carroll took an early lead, and did not let up, topping the Tomcats, 9-1, in game two.

Mike Raschilla was 5-for-5 in the game, driving home two runs. Brandon

Maddern struck out six Thiel batters in five innings of work. Tyler Gentile was 5-for-5, including a double and two RBI.

A Penman groundout kicked off the scoring in the second. Cifelli singled home Scholla with a shot to right field. In the next inning, a throwing error on a Monroe Donnelly bunt scored Tyler Gentile.

A Scholla sacrifice fly and Raschilla single extended the lead to 5-0. In the bottom of the third, A wild pitch and throwing error put Thiel on the board.

In the top of the fifth, Raschilla drove in another run with an RBI single. A Gentile RBI single brought home Cifelli, and the lead was 7-1 JCU. In the seventh, Gentile singled home a run, and Mittiga reached on an error, ending the scoring at nine.

Joseph Franke appeared in relief of Maddern, allowing one run in the sixth.
 
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