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Closeup of Dylan Walsh fist-bumping a teammate
Daniel Oren '27
5
Williams WILLIAMS 1-2
6
Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 5-8
Williams WILLIAMS
1-2
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Final
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Brandeis BRANDEIS
5-8
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Williams WILLIAMS 0 1 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 5 11 0
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 3 6 11 0

W: Sweeney, Jack (1-1) L: J. Vaughan (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Adam Levin '94

Judges win as Walsh walks off Williams, 6-5

WALTHAM, Mass. – The Brandeis University baseball team scored six unanswered runs against visiting Williams today as the Judges walked off against the Ephs, 6-5, after scoring three times in the bottom of the ninth inning.

TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis, 5-8.
  • Williams, 1-2.
HOW IT HAPPENED
  • Williams looked to be in control through four-and-a-half innings, as the Ephs led, 5-0, while allowing just two Brandeis hits.
  • The Ephs scored one run in the second on a single, a double, and a sacrifice fly by Ryan Nakajima.
  • James O'Connor delivered a two-run double in the fourth and Nakajima gave the visitors the five-run lead with a two-run two-bagger in the fifth.
  • The Brandeis bats awakened in the bottom of the fifth, after Williams starter Owen McHugh left the game.
  • The Judges had three hits in the frame, with first-year DH Danny Tambascia (Newton, Mass./Newton North) getting Brandeis on the board with a two-run double.
  • Tambascia brought home his third RBI of the day in the bottom of the seventh with a two-out triple to centerfield that plated grad student 1B Eddie Zanor (Branford, Conn./Notre Dame-West Haven), who had doubled. Williams reliever JH Vaughan stranded runners on second and third to keep the lead in the Ephs' favor, 5-3.
  • Brandeis sophomore 2B Dylan Walsh (Arlington, Mass./Arlington) drew a lead-off walk in the eighth and made it to third, but was stranded there.
  • After a 1-2-3 top of the ninth, Zanor led off the bottom of the frame getting hit by a pitch. After Vaughan got a strikeout for the first out of the inning, Tambascia was in the thick of things again with his fourth hit and second double of the game, putting the tying run at second base.
  • Graduate student RF Jake Freed (Vernon Hills, Ill./Stevenson) drilled a line-drive at the second-baseman that caromed into centerfield, allowing the two runners to score and tying the game at 5-all.
  • After sophomore SS Mano Boutsikakis (Astoria, N.Y./Xavier) moved Freed to second with a ground out, Walsh pounced on the first pitch he saw, lining it into center to give Brandeis the walk-off victory.
INSIDE THE BOX SCORE
  • Tambascia was the offensive star for the Judges, going 4-5 and finishing a home run short of a cycle. He had two doubles, a triple and three RBI.
  • Zanor doubled and scored two runs, while Freed drove in two.
  • Williams had 11 hits on the day, but only three after the fifth inning. Nakajima led the visitors with three RBI and a pair of doubles. O'Connor and Will Scott each went 3-5 with two runs scored. O'Connor also drove in two.
  • The Brandeis relievers were excellent, especially sophomore Landen Jansen (Swampscott, Mass./Austin Prep) and first-year Jack Sweeney (Waltham, Mass./Austin Prep).
  • Jansen came on with two on and two out in the fifth and ended the frame, while working around a couple of hits in the sixth and seventh to strand seven runners total. He threw 2.1 innings and allowed three hits and no runs, two walks and two key strikeouts.
  • Sweeney improved to 1-1 with his first collegiate win, retiring all six Ephs he faced in the eighth and ninth. He struck out one and did not walk a batter.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges return to action on Wednesday, March 19th, at 3:30 p.m. against Wentworth.
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