March 29, 2006

Box Score

STORRS, Conn. - Yale rallied from a 4-0 deficit to take a 5-4 lead in the seventh inning, but the Huskies scored two runs in both the seventh and eighth inning to pull out an 8-5 win on Wednesday afternoon. Marc Sawyer (Largo, Fla.) extended his hitting streak to nine games and John Henry Davis (Southbridge, Mass.) pitched a pair of perfect innings of relief in the loss.

The Huskies drew first blood, scoring a run in their half of the first. Eric Turgeon tripled home leadoff man Austin Wasserman to give UConn a 1-0 lead. Bulldog starter Chris Winkler () bared down to strand the Turgeon at third, inducing a pair of pop ups to the infield and a grounder to second. The Huskies would tack on another off Winkler in the second thanks to a Justin Farkes RBI single.

After Alex Christ (South Pasadena, Calif.) surrendered a pair of runs in the third, Yale cut the lead to 4-2 in the top of the fourth thanks to a pair of Husky errors. Pedro Obregon (Miami, Fla.) drove in a run with a bases loaded walk and a second run scored on an error by the shortstop Dale Brannon.

Yale cut the deficit to one after a Sawyer double in the fifth to plate P.J. Gorynski (Queens, N.Y.). Sawyer extended his hitting streak to nine games earlier when he singled in the first. It was his fifth consecutive multi-hit game and his eighth during the streak.

Gorynski would tie the game for the Elis with a sacrifice fly in the sixth and Eric Rasmussen (Brewster, Mass.) would put Yale up with a RBI single in the seventh.

The Bulldogs were able to take the lead in large part due to a pair of perfect innings from Davis. He sent the side down in order in both the fifth and the sixth picking up a pair of strikeouts in the process.

UConn stormed back in its half of the seventh, re-taking the lead on a two-run single from Larry Day to go up 6-5. Brannon singled to start the inning and was sacrificed to second by Wasserman. Turgeon followed with a single to center and advanced to second on Jake Doyle's (Wilmington, Del.) throw home. Day then hit one back through the box to give the Huskies the lead.

They would tack on two more in the eighth to take an 8-5 lead into the top of the ninth.

Ted Gary got the final six outs of the contest to preserve the UConn win.

Stefan Schropp took the loss for Yale (11-9) and Josh MacDonald (1-1) picked up the win for Connecticut (14-8).

Yale returns to action this weekend when they open up Ivy League play with a pair of doubleheaders at Columbia on Friday and at Penn on Saturday.