WALTHAM, Mass. – It took more than four hours and playing through on-and-off rain, but the Brandeis University baseball team dropped a record-breaking University Athletic Association contest with #21-ranked Case Western Reserve today, 25-18, at Waltham's Yetten Field.
TEAM RECORDS
- Brandeis: 11-26, 3-16 UAA.
- CWRU: 24-12-1, 13-5-1 UAA.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- Runs scored in all but three half-innings, with the visiting Spartans scoring at least once in each frame.
- The teams set four UAA records in the process – combined runs in a game (43), combined extra-base hits in a game (16), combined runs in an inning (15, in the 7th) and extra-base hits in a game by one team (12 by CWRU).
- The teams each scored a run in the first, and after the Spartans scored four in the top of the second, the Judges responded with three in the bottom of the frame to get within 5-4.
- CWRU scored six straight runs in their next three at-bats to go ahead, 11-4, after the top of the fifth
- Brandeis scored twice in the bottom to cut it to 11-6, but CWRU answered with a run in the sixth that pushed their lead to 12-6, and the looked to put the game away in the top of the seventh, when they scored nine runs on six hits and three walks to go up, 21-6.
- Rather than succumb to the UAA's 10-run rule, Brandeis battled for six runs of their own in the bottom of the seventh, to get within 21-12 and extending the game.
- The Spartans tallied one in the top of the eighth to go back up by 10, 22-12, but this time the Judges responded with five in the bottom of the inning to get within 22-17.
- CWRU scored three in the top of the ninth, and Brandeis managed just one in the bottom of the frame for the 25-18 final.
- The win by the Spartans, coupled with Chicago's loss to NYU today, gave Case Western Reserve the UAA title and an NCAA Division III tournament berth.
TOP HITTERS
- Sixteen of the 18 starters in the game had hits, with one player on each side not hitting safely.
- Brandeis was paced by first-year 1B Danny Tambascia (Newton, Mass./Newton North), who went 4-5 with three RBI and three runs scored.
- Sophomore 2B Dylan Walsh (Arlington, Mass./Arlington) was 2-5 with four RBI, two runs scored, a double and a home run. The homer and RBI came in one swing of the bat, a grand slam in the team's six-run seventh. It was the first round-tripper of his career.
- Classmate Henry Aronwald (Rye Brook, N.Y./Trinity Pawling) also had a home run, a solo shot in the ninth. It was his team-leading fourth circuit clout of the season., tied with two others.
- Spartan DH Dane Camphausen led the visitors, going 3-6 with three runs scored and seven RBI. Camphausen fueled the Spartans' nine-run sixth, hitting a pair of home runs. He had a solo home run to center field to start the inning and a three-run shot to the same area in his second at bat in the inning.
- Catcher Jack Anderson was 2-2 with four runs scored, three RBI and four walks out of the lead-off slot for CWRU.
- 1B Tyler Stillson had three extra-base hits, going 6 with two doubles and a homer, scoring three and driving in two.
PITCHING DECISIONS
- The teams combined to use 12 pitchers, six by each side.
- CWRU's Anton Sabo earned the win, improving to 2-0. His three-inning stint was the longest of the game for the Spartans, as he held the Judges to two earned runs on two hits and three walks.
- Brandeis starter Eddie Zanor (Branford, Conn./Notre Dame-West Haven) took the loss, giving up six hits and five earned runs in his two innings of action. He walked three and struck out three.
UP NEXT
- The Judges and Spartans will wrap up their series tomorrow at 11 a.m.
