Bucknell University
Le Moyne
Bucknell Baseball Loses Two at Le Moyne, 4-3 & 4-0
3/29/2011 8:00:00 AM | Baseball
March 29, 2011
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Two days after completing a four-game home series against Longwood, the Bucknell baseball team traveled to Le Moyne's Dick Rockwell Field Tuesday afternoon and lost a pair of seven-inning contests to the Dolphins. The Bison dropped game one by a 4-3 score and were two-hit in the second game, a 4-0 loss.
Bucknell (11-13) substituted liberally on the mound, using nine different pitchers in the doubleheader with seven pitching one inning apiece. No Bison hurler yielded more than one earned run. On the other hand, Le Moyne (7-17) used just three pitchers, with game two starter Jerome Werniuk (1-1) pitching a complete-game, two-hitter.
The Dolphins only multi-run inning of the doubleheader came in the bottom of the first inning of game one when they scored three runs, two of which were unearned, to take an early lead against starter Trey Frahler (1-4). A two-out single by Vincent Redmond capped the scoring in the frame.
A leadoff walk came around to score on a double play ground out in the fourth as Le Moyne took a 4-0 lead into the later innings.
Bucknell came back with three runs in the top of the sixth as five of the first six hitters reached base. Doug Shribman followed a Gerry Runyan leadoff single with an RBI double to center, while Tom Hrabchak had a one-out RBI single and Scott Glass drove home the final run on a sac fly. The Bison left the potential tying run on third base and then went down 1-2-3 in the seventh against reliever Mike Anarumo.
Shribman's double extended his hitting streak to eight games and moved his career RBI total to 126, two shy of fourth place in program history. He now has a team-high 22 RBIs this season.
Bucknell collected three of its seven hits and both walks in the game in the three-run sixth inning.
Tom McDermott (2-0) started for Le Moyne and pitched 6.0 innings, allowing seven hits and three runs while striking out five and walking two.
Eric Jarrett had a solid outing for the Bison, retiring all three hitters he faced in the fifth inning, striking out two.
Werniuk was the story in game two as he allowed just four baserunners in the contest. A Will Mooney single in the third and a Matt Lamore single in the fifth were the only hits the Bison recorded. Chet Otis was hit by a pitch in the sixth and Shribman reached on an error in the seventh, rounding out the list of Bucknell baserunners.
Le Moyne scored single runs in the second, third, fourth and sixth innings as the Bucknell pitching staff limited the Dolphins to just five hits. Ryan Mahoney did the majority of the damage for Le Moyne, doubling and later scoring in the fourth and hitting a solo home run in the sixth. He was 2-for-2 and reached base in all three plate appearances, following a 1-for-3 game one performance.
Playing its sixth game in a span of just over 72 hours, Bucknell used a number of younger players in its game two lineup. Freshmen Chet Otis, Corey Furman, Justin Meier and Will Mooney were all in the batting order and they had combined for just five starts in the season's first 23 games.
Bucknell, which won the 2010 Patriot League Tournament crown, will open Patriot League play this weekend when it hosts Lafayette in a four-game series at Depew Field. First pitch both Saturday and Sunday is scheduled for noon.
