SANFORD, Fla. - The Washington University baseball team sent
nine men to the plate and scored six runs as the Bears defeated
Brandeis, 8-6, in a University Athletic Association contest. The
win was WashU's first in UAA play, as they moved to 4-5, 1-3 UAA,
while Brandeis fell to 4-5, 2-2 UAA.
The Judges jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the third
inning, as rookie CF Sean O'Hare (Southampton,
Mass./Hampshire Regional) singled, moved to second on a wild pitch
and came home on a base hit by sophomore 3B Tony
Deshler (Pepperell, Mass./Lawrence Acad.). The Bears
responded in the top of the fourth with six runs, five of which
were unearned. After a lead-off walk and a strike-out, an error at
shortstop put runners on first and second. WashU got the equalizer
on an RBI single by sophomore 1B Matt Bayer (Massapequa,
N.Y./Massapequa), and Brandeis sophomore Justin
Duncombe (Canyon Country, Calif./Canyon) got another
strikeout, which should have been the third out. Unfortunately, the
Bears got two more singles to pack the sacks, including an
RBI from senior RF Zander Lehman (San Francisco, Calif./San
Francisco Univ.). Bear junior 2B Joe Wenzel (St. Louis, Mo./Parkway
South) unloaded the bases to give WashU a 6-1 lead.
Brandeis got two runs back in the bottom of the frame on an RBI
grounder by rookie SS Joe Correia (Belleville,
N.J./Montclair Kimberly Acad.) and a Washington error, but they
left two runners on base. The Bears tacked on another unearned run
on an RBI double by Bayer in the seventh, while both teams scored
without a hit in the bottom of the seventh and top of the eighth,
respectively, making it an 8-4 game. A second Deshler RBI single in
the eighth made the lead 8-5. Brandeis senior Jonah
Mandell (New York, N.Y./Friends Seminary) stranded two
WashU runners in the top of the ninth, and sophomore DH Pat
Nicholson (E. Walpole, Mass./Walpole) plated a run in the
bottom of the ninth, but the Judges stranded two of their own to
end the game at 8-6.
Deshler was the offensive star for the Judges, going 3-5 with
two RBI. O'Hare, Nicholson and sophomore catcher Zach
Wooley (Argyle, Texas/Jesuit College Prep) all had two
hits on the day, but Brandeis had no extra-base hits and stranded
12 runners. Duncombe suffered the loss, giving up 11 hits and seven
runs (one earned) in 6.1 innings of action. He struck out
four and walked two.
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