April 26, 2006

Game One Box Score | Game Two Box Score

HANOVER, N.H. - Junior Marc Sawyer (Largo, Fla.) was just a double short of hitting for the cycle and collected six RBI in a 13-9 win in the back end of an Ivy League doubleheader with Dartmouth. The Big Green rallied from a 5-1 deficit, winning the first game 8-5.

The Bulldogs came out of the gates looking good in the first game, scoring a pair of runs in the opening frame for the early 2-0 lead.

Josh Cox (Gainesville, Fla.) led off the game with a ground-rule double to left center followed by a walk from P.J. Gorynski (Queens, N.Y.). Junior Jake Doyle (Wilmington, Del.) followed with an RBI single two batters later to give Yale the first lead of the game. The second run scored when Gorynski crossed on a wild pitch from Big Green starter Jeff Wilkerson.

Dartmouth answered with a run in the bottom of the frame on a Damon Wright RBI single to cut the deficit in half at 2-1.

Freshman Ryan Lavarnway (Woodland Hills, Calif.) extended the Bulldog lead to 4-1 in the third inning, hitting his team-leading fifth home run of the season. It was a two-run blast over the fence in left field that scored Doyle.

The Bulldog lead grew to 5-1 in the fourth inning thanks to some small ball.

Gorynski led off the inning with a double to the gap in left center and was moved over to third on a groundout from Sawyer. Doyle then plated Gorynski with a perfect squeeze bunt.

Chris Wietlispach (Crystal Lake, Ill.) ran into some trouble in the Dartmouth half of the fourth. A two-out walk to Big Green third baseman Tommy Myette led to two runs in the frame to cut the Yale lead to 5-3.

Dartmouth got to Wietlispach again in the fifth inning, knocking him out of the game and tacking three runs on the scoreboard to take a 6-3 lead. They also added a pair of runs in the seventh inning to hang on for the come-from-behind 8-5 win. Matt Fealey (Freeport, N.Y.) was saddled with the loss in relief to fall to 4-1 while Wilkerson earned the win.

Game two was dominated by the Yale hitters, who used a 19-hit onslaught to score 13 runs. Every Eli starter picked up at least one hit and scored at least one run.

The Bulldogs did the bulk of the damage in an eight-run fourth inning to extend their 3-1 lead all the way out to 11-1. Yale sent 13 men to the plate in the inning, highlighted by Sawyer's bases-clearing three-run triple. He also hit a mammoth two-run homer in the third inning en route to a three-hit, six-RBI game.

Cox, Gorynski, and John Janco (Cannonsburg, Pa.) also had three hits on the game and Lavarnway hit his second home run of the afternoon in the blitzkrieg.

Bulldog pitching staff kept the Big Green at bay, never letting Dartmouth mount a serious rally. Mike Elias (Alexandria, Va.) earned the win to improve to 3-1 on the season and Adam Barrick (Freeport, N.Y.) earned his second save of the season.

Fealey also made an appearance in the back end of the doubleheader to establish a new school single-season mark in that category with 22. The righty eclipsed the mark previously held by Jay Horgan '93 which was set in 1990.

With the split the Bulldogs still have a chance at a share of the Red Rolfe Division crown, but need to sweep Brown this weekend in a four-game home and home series. Yale also needs Dartmouth to win at least two games against the Crimson.

The Bulldogs and Bears open up their series with a doubleheader on Friday with first pitch set for noon.