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Henry Aronwald stands in the batters box awaiting a pitch
Daniel Oren '27
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Brandeis BRANDEIS 1-3
11
Winner Berry BERRY 4-3
Brandeis BRANDEIS
1-3
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Final
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Berry BERRY
4-3
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Brandeis BRANDEIS 2 0 0 0 5 3 0 0 0 10 12 4
Berry BERRY 0 1 0 5 0 5 0 0 X 11 13 5

W: J. Strydom (1-0) L: Sweeney, Jack (0-1) S: A. Moraitaki (1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Adam Levin '94

Baseball drops 11-10 slugfest to Berry

MOUNT BERRY, Ga. – The Brandeis University baseball team had its biggest offensive output of the season, scoring 10 runs on 12 hits, but host Berry College was just as potent as the Vikings rallied for an 11-10 win on the fourth leg of the Judges' February Break trip south.

TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis: 1-3.
  • Berry: 4-3.
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • The teams combined for 21 runs on 25 hits, supplying five multi-run innings and three different frames in which a team batted around.
  • Brandeis opened quickly, scoring twice in the top of the first. Sophomore CF Connor Crowley (Guilford, Conn./Notre Dame-West Haven) and first-year 3B Ben Kuja (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) started the game with back-to-back doubles to break the ice, and an error two batters later allowed Kuja to double the lead.
  • Berry got one run back in the bottom of the second on a hit batter and two singles off of grad student starter Eddie Zanor (Branford, Conn./Notre Dame-West Haven), but the Vikings had their first bat-around in the bottom of the fourth against first-year reliever Rohan Shah (Hicksville, N.Y./Hicksville).
  • The hosts had five hits and took advantage of two costly Brandeis errors to score five runs, three of which were unearned.
  • Brandeis answered back in the top of the fifth with a bat-around of their own. The Judges scored five times on five hits and two Berry errors. The big hits in the frame were a two-run double by Zanor and a two-run single by sophomore LF Henry Aronwald (Rye Brook, N.Y./Trinity Pawling). Grad student RF Jake Freed (Vernon Hills, Ill./Stevenson) delivered a single back to the mound that put the Judges ahead, 7-6.
  • The Judges got the Vikings in order in the bottom of the fifth and then scored three more runs in the top of the sixth. They loaded the bases on three singles with no outs. Sophomore SS Matt Chafin (Canton, Mass./Canton) scored on a wild pitch. Zanor delivered a sacrifice fly to center, and Aronwald added his third RBI of the day on a single to left. Freed drew a walk to put two more Judges on the base-paths, but Berry induced a 4-3 double play to close the inning down, 10-6.
  • Berry responded with their second bat-around of the game in the sixth, scoring five runs on four hits, a walk and an error to take an 11-10 lead.
  • The Judges had an opportunity to get back in the game in the top of the seventh when back-to-back Brandeis players were hit by pitches with one out. The Vikings escaped damage when Crowley grounded to second and the hosts tried for a double play. Crowley appeared to beat a high throw to first, but the umpires ruled the Brandeis runner from first interfered with the throw, calling Crowley out at first to end the inning.
  • The teams each had a two-out runner in the top and bottom of the eighth and the top of the ninth, but were unable to anything with them as the Vikings hung on for the win.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Aronwald led the Judges by going 2-4 with four RBI, while Zanor drove in three runs.
  • Crowley and Kuja each went 3-5 with three runs scored, while Chafin scored twice.
  • Zanor pitched three innings in the start, allowing two hits and one earned run. He walked three and did not strikeout a batter.
  • First-year reliever Jack Sweeney (Waltham, Mass./Austin Prep) suffered the loss in his collegiate debut, giving up three hits and four earned runs in an inning of work.
  • Berry had a balanced attack, seeing all nine of their starters score at least one run and eight of them driving in runs.
  • LF Charles Pulaski led the Vikings with a 4-5 performance with three RBI and a double.
  • Seven Berry pitchers combined for the winning effort, with Jon Strydom earning the win for inducing the a double play to end the sixth inning, while Aubrey Moraitakis threw two scoreless innings for the save with two Ks and one hit allowed.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges' scheduled game for tomorrow against Sewanee has been canceled and will not be made up. Brandeis is scheduled to be back in action on March 2 at Mitchell College.
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