WALTHAM, Mass. - Brandeis University junior Drew
Brzozowski (Concord, Mass./Concord-Carlisle) struck out a
career-high 10 Endicott College batters today, throwing 8.1 innings
of three-hit ball as the Judges blanked the Gulls, 4-0, on Stein
Diamond today.
Brzozowski, whose earlier
career-high was eight strikeouts, retired the side in order in five
of the eight innings he completed and struck out the side in the
second. He had one walk and hit a batter, but did not allow a
runner past second base. With the win, Brzozowski improves to 5-1
in seven starts this season.
Brandeis (15-19) got all the
scoring they would need in the fourth inning with two runs on three
hits. After rookie CF Sean O'Hare (Southampton,
Mass./Hampshire Regional) singled, stole second and moved
to third on a ground-out, junior DH Drake Livada (Cape
Elizabeth, Maine/Cape Elizabeth) kept up his hot streak
with an RBI double. He scored two batters later on a two-bagger by
junior 2B Jon O'Brion (Portland, Maine/Portland).
For Livada, it was his sixth-straight multi-hit game, raising his
batting average from .290 to .367 in that span.
The Judges add runs in the sixth
and eighth innings without a hit. In the sixth, a walk, two hit
batters and an error brought home sophomore 1B Pat
Nicholson (E. Walpole, Mass./Walpole). In the eighth,
after back-to-back walks, junior C Artie Posch (Hopedale,
Mass./Hopedale) tagged and scored from second base as EC
senior RF Alex Judge (Wilton, Conn./Wilton) made a fine diving
catch on a line drive off the bat of O'Hare.
Endicott (15-20) got three of
their four hits by rookie SS Benjamin Petrides (Belchertown,
Mass./Wilbraham & Monson), including a seventh-inning double.
Petrides also stole a base. Sophomore Michael Drinkwater (Hamilton,
Mass./Hamilton-Wenham) suffered the loss for the Gulls, going 3.2
innings and giving up four hits and two earned runs. He fanned two
and did not walk a batter.
Brandeis is next in action on
Sunday afternoon when they host the defending national champions,
No. 6 Trinity College, at 12 noon. Endicott closes their
regular-season with a TCCC twin-bill tomorrow against Nichols
College, also at noon.
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