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Bucknell Baseball Outlasts Saint Joseph’s 16-14 on a Rainy Day at Depew Field
3/2/2024 9:53:00 PM | Baseball
LEWISBURG, Pa. – On a day best suited for an NFL game at Lambeau Field, the Bucknell baseball team won by a football score in its home opener at Depew Field on Saturday. Sean Keys homered and drove in four runs and reliever Nick Mulvey ended the game with a strikeout with the bases loaded as darkness set in to help the Bison to a wild 16-14 victory over Saint Joseph's.
With temperatures in the low 40s and a cold steady rain falling throughout, Bucknell prevailed on a day that was especially tough on the pitchers and fielders. The two pitching staffs combined for 27 walks, and five errors led to seven unearned runs.
Now 5-3 on the season, Bucknell scored in all but one of its turns at-bat and never trailed after scoring four times in the bottom of the first inning. Keys, Jacob Corson, and Tyler Dunn all had two hits for the Bison. Corson added three RBIs and scored three runs, and nine-hole hitter Brady Karp reached base three times and scored three runs.
The biggest hit of the game turned out to be Keys' booming three-run double in the bottom of the eighth. That gave Bucknell a seemingly commanding 16-10 lead heading to the ninth, but the Hawks (2-4) made things very interesting as the remaining daylight dwindled.
Mulvey, who got two big strikeouts to end the eighth, allowed two bloop hits and a walk to start the ninth. After two run-scoring walks, Ryan Weingartner singled home two runs to make it 16-14. A wild pitch moved the tying run into scoring position, and then after a walk to pinch-hitter Justin Igoe, Mulvey blew a 90-mph fastball by Ryan Picollo to end the game.
After Bison starter Tyler O'Neill stranded two in scoring position in the first inning, Bucknell jumped ahead in the bottom half on Dunn's RBI single. Michael Trommer followed with a bullet up the middle to plate two more, and Nic Adamo drove in the fourth run on a ground ball.
Saint Joseph's pulled within 4-3 in the second but the Bison matched those three runs in the bottom half. Grant Voytovich drove in Karp with a two-out double, and then Corson and Voytovich both hustled home on a wild pitch as the throw from the catcher to the pitcher covering the plate got away.
The four-run lead was short-lived however, as Conlan Wall's two-out, three-run double knotted the game at 7-7 in the top of the third. While reliever Graeme Carroll settled things down with a couple of zeroes, Keys broke the deadlock with an opposite-field shot that carried over the wall in left for his fourth home run of the season.
The Bison nearly squandered a bases-loaded-no-outs rally in the fifth, but Corson came through with a two-out double to plate two and make it a 10-7 game. The teams traded runs in the sixth, the Bison scored one on a throwing error in the seventh, and the Hawks scored twice to get within 12-10 in the eighth.
Bucknell loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, and Saint Joseph's reliever Ryan Basarab hit Corson with his very first pitch to force in a run. One pitch later, Keys hit a blast off the wall in center to clear the bases.
Carroll (1-0) was named the Patriot League Pitcher of the Week after working five hitless innings on the way to a pair of saves against Massachusetts last weekend. He was the winning pitcher in this one after allowing just an unearned run on three hits in three innings of work.
Keys' 18th career home run moved him into a tie with Dave Apollon and Kyle Walter for 11th on Bucknell's all-time list.
Will McCausland (1-1) entered the game with a 1.64 ERA in his first two starts and was this week's Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week, but the Bison touched him for eight runs, six earned, on eight hits in four innings.
Owen Petrich had three hits and Wall went 1-for-3 with four walks and five RBIs for the Hawks.
These two teams will meet again on Sunday, this time at Smithson Field in Philadelphia. Game one of the doubleheader will start at noon.
With temperatures in the low 40s and a cold steady rain falling throughout, Bucknell prevailed on a day that was especially tough on the pitchers and fielders. The two pitching staffs combined for 27 walks, and five errors led to seven unearned runs.
Now 5-3 on the season, Bucknell scored in all but one of its turns at-bat and never trailed after scoring four times in the bottom of the first inning. Keys, Jacob Corson, and Tyler Dunn all had two hits for the Bison. Corson added three RBIs and scored three runs, and nine-hole hitter Brady Karp reached base three times and scored three runs.
The biggest hit of the game turned out to be Keys' booming three-run double in the bottom of the eighth. That gave Bucknell a seemingly commanding 16-10 lead heading to the ninth, but the Hawks (2-4) made things very interesting as the remaining daylight dwindled.
Mulvey, who got two big strikeouts to end the eighth, allowed two bloop hits and a walk to start the ninth. After two run-scoring walks, Ryan Weingartner singled home two runs to make it 16-14. A wild pitch moved the tying run into scoring position, and then after a walk to pinch-hitter Justin Igoe, Mulvey blew a 90-mph fastball by Ryan Picollo to end the game.
After Bison starter Tyler O'Neill stranded two in scoring position in the first inning, Bucknell jumped ahead in the bottom half on Dunn's RBI single. Michael Trommer followed with a bullet up the middle to plate two more, and Nic Adamo drove in the fourth run on a ground ball.
Saint Joseph's pulled within 4-3 in the second but the Bison matched those three runs in the bottom half. Grant Voytovich drove in Karp with a two-out double, and then Corson and Voytovich both hustled home on a wild pitch as the throw from the catcher to the pitcher covering the plate got away.
The four-run lead was short-lived however, as Conlan Wall's two-out, three-run double knotted the game at 7-7 in the top of the third. While reliever Graeme Carroll settled things down with a couple of zeroes, Keys broke the deadlock with an opposite-field shot that carried over the wall in left for his fourth home run of the season.
The Bison nearly squandered a bases-loaded-no-outs rally in the fifth, but Corson came through with a two-out double to plate two and make it a 10-7 game. The teams traded runs in the sixth, the Bison scored one on a throwing error in the seventh, and the Hawks scored twice to get within 12-10 in the eighth.
Bucknell loaded the bases with two outs in the bottom of the eighth, and Saint Joseph's reliever Ryan Basarab hit Corson with his very first pitch to force in a run. One pitch later, Keys hit a blast off the wall in center to clear the bases.
Carroll (1-0) was named the Patriot League Pitcher of the Week after working five hitless innings on the way to a pair of saves against Massachusetts last weekend. He was the winning pitcher in this one after allowing just an unearned run on three hits in three innings of work.
Keys' 18th career home run moved him into a tie with Dave Apollon and Kyle Walter for 11th on Bucknell's all-time list.
Will McCausland (1-1) entered the game with a 1.64 ERA in his first two starts and was this week's Atlantic 10 Pitcher of the Week, but the Bison touched him for eight runs, six earned, on eight hits in four innings.
Owen Petrich had three hits and Wall went 1-for-3 with four walks and five RBIs for the Hawks.
These two teams will meet again on Sunday, this time at Smithson Field in Philadelphia. Game one of the doubleheader will start at noon.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Carroll, Graeme (1-0)
L: Will McCausland (1-1)
S: Mulvey, Nick (3)
Batting:
2B: Conlan Wall 1 ; Ryan Picollo 1 ; Luke Zimmerman 1 ; Brandon Drapeau 1
RBI: Conlan Wall 5 ; Ryan Weingartner 2 ; Brandon Drapeau 1 ; Tim Dickinson 3
Base Running:
RUNS: Ryan Picollo 2 ; Owen Petrich 3 ; Luke Zimmerman 3 ; Brandon Drapeau 2 ; Tim Dickinson 3 ; Max Hitman 1
SB: Conlan Wall 1 ; Luke Zimmerman 1
CS: Ryan Weingartner 1
HBP: Ryan Picollo 1 ; Brandon Drapeau 1
Batting:
2B: Corson, Jacob 1 ; Keys, Sean 1 ; Voytovich, Grant 1
HR: Keys, Sean 1
RBI: Corson, Jacob 3 ; Keys, Sean 4 ; Voytovich, Grant 1 ; Dunn, Tyler 1 ; Trommer, Michael 2 ; Adamo, Nic 2
SF: Adamo, Nic 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Corson, Jacob 3 ; Keys, Sean 1 ; Kender, Billy 1 ; Voytovich, Grant 3 ; Dunn, Tyler 2 ; Trommer, Michael 1 ; Fluharty, Billy 1 ; Morabito, Chris 1 ; Karp, Brady 3
SB: Keys, Sean 1 ; Fluharty, Billy 1
HBP: Corson, Jacob 1
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