MIDDLETOWN, Conn. – The Wesleyan baseball team dropped a 19-3 decision at home to Little Three rival Williams on Sunday afternoon. The loss drops Wesleyan to 5-6 at the end of the regular season while Williams finishes 7-4.
The Ephs' offense completely dominated in this one, scoring 19 runs on 18 hits while playing a clean game with no errors in the field. Williams scored six runs in the second and piled on with a nine-run eighth as Wesleyan emptied their bench and used nine pitchers in the rubber match of the weekend series.
Highlights (L, 19-3)
- The first inning was all-Wesleyan as the Cardinals turned a 6-4-3 double play to end the top half and scored the game's first run as Ryan Molinari '22 came in from third on a wild pitch
- Williams broke the game open in the second as the six-run inning but the Ephs out front 6-1. Three runs were scored with two outs including a two-run Jakob Cohn double that plated two
- The Ephs' onslaught continued with Williams plating one run in four straight innings between the third through the sixth, making it 10-1
- Cole Torino '24 scored on a passed ball in the fifth and Jack Nally '24 scored on a wild pitch to account for the final two Wesleyan runs
- Fourteen Williams batters came to the plate in the eighth as the Ephs put up a massive nine-run frame to put the game well out of reach
NOTES
- Philip Barnett (4-for-7, four runs, two RBI) and Cole Whitehouse (4-for-6, three runs, two RBI) paced the Williams offense that saw six Ephs record multi-hit games
- Eric Gage earned his first career victory, throwing 6.0 innings of four-hit ball, allowing two runs (one earned)
- Wesleyan starter Adam Bowler '23 took the loss, allowing six runs in 1.2 innings in his start
- Molinari, Torino, Kyle Sylvester '22 and Ricky Finkel '23 each had one hit to account for the four Wesleyan hits
UP NEXT
Wesleyan will at least one NESCAC cross-divisional game next weekend to conclude the 2021 season. Game times and opponent will be announced early this week.