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Jacob Maurer throwing a pitch during a baseball game
Keni Franck '28
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Washington (Mo.) WASHU 23-9
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Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 17-11
Washington (Mo.) WASHU
23-9
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Final
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Brandeis BRANDEIS
17-11
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Washington (Mo.) WASHU 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 0 X 3 8 0

W: Maurer, Jacob (4-2) L: Chase Brickley (7-2)

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Winner Washington (Mo.) WASHU 24-9
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Brandeis BRANDEIS 17-12
Winner
Washington (Mo.) WASHU
24-9
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Final
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Brandeis BRANDEIS
17-12
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Washington (Mo.) WASHU 0 3 0 0 2 0 1 1 0 7 8 0
Brandeis BRANDEIS 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 6 0

W: Isaac Zhang (4-0) L: Tringe, Andrew (2-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Adam Levin '94

Maurer dominates as baseball splits first two against WashU

WALTHAM, Mass. – In the opening two games of a University Athletic Association series today, host Brandeis University and visiting Washington University each got an outstanding pitching performance as the squads settled for a split. Brandeis won the opener, 3-1, while the 15th-ranked Bears took Game 2, 7-1.
 
TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis: 17-12, 8-6 UAA.
  • Washington U.: 24-9, 8-6 UAA, ranked #15 in Division III by ABCA/D3Baseball.com
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME ONE (Brandeis 3, WashU 1)
  • The opener was a classic pitcher's duel featuring Brandeis graduate student Jacob Maurer (Dayton, Ohio/Archbishop Carroll) and WashU's Chase Brickley, with the Judge hurler coming away with the victory.
  • Maurer improved to 4-2 on the season by limiting the UAA's top offensive team to five hits and one earned run in throwing a complete game. He struck out seven without issuing a walk, hitting two Bear batters. Maurer threw 116 pitches, 85 for strikes.
  • The complete game was Brandeis's third of the season.
  • Brickley suffered just his second loss of the season, falling to 7-2 after allowing six hits and two earned runs in six inning of work. He struck out five and walked three.
  • Brandeis got the only runs they would need in the second. Junior CF Connor Crowley (Guilford, Conn./Notre Dame-West Haven) led off with a single and first-year catcher Quinn Lanagan (Raynham, Mass./Xaverian) drew a four-pitch walk. After they were bunted into scoring position, sophomore LF Bobby Quill (Raynham, Mass./Bridgewater-Raynham Regional) broke the ice with a grounder to shortstop.
  • Sophomore 3B Ben Kuja (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand) followed with his second ground-rule double of the game to right-center making it a 2-0 lead.
  • WashU got one run back in the top of the fourth, when Chance Cromer led off with a double down the right-field line and scored on Anthony Equale's single two batters later.
  • Brandeis got an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh, when Quill singled to short and scored on a double by sophomore 1B Danny Tambascia (Newton, Mass./Newton North).
  • Maurer got out of his toughest jam of the game in the top of the eighth, when the leadoff batter doubled and was followed by a hit batter. A wild pitch put both runners into scoring position, but Maurer bore down and got a strikeout, a shallow fly, and a grounder to short to keep it a two-run game.
  • WashU's Anthony Equale had a one-out double in the ninth, but Maurer got another swinging strikeout and a pop to third to end the game.
  • Kuja, Tambascia and Quill each had two hits for the Judges, with Kuja doubling twice and Tambascia once.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME TWO (WashU 7, Brandeis 2)
  • Brandeis got on the board first in game 2 in the bottom of the first. With two out, Tambascia was hit by a pitch, and he scored all the way from first on a double down the left-field line by sophomore catcher Keith Lee (Milford, Mass./Milford).
  • WashU responded in the top of the second, scoring three times on four hits. The Bears had runners on first and second with one away when Connor Lindsay singled to center, but Crowley threw out a runner at the plate to keep the visitors off the board.
  • With two away, Mike Birke delivered a tying single, and after a hit batter loaded the bases, the go-ahead run scored on a balk charged to Brandeis starter Andrew Tringe (Montpelier, Vt./Montpelier). Chance Cromer followed with an RBI single to give the visitors a 3-1 lead.
  • WashU added to their lead in the fifth, loading the bases without a hit on two walks and another hit batter. Brandeis traded a run for two outs, turning a 6-4-3 double play, but WashU's Kevin Stephens doubled home another run to make it 5-1.
  • WashU's Isaac Zhang was in command, holding the Judges to just six hits. He worked out of trouble in the sixth, loading the bases on a hit batter, a walk and a single. Zheng induced a 6-4-3 double play to maintain the visitors' four-run lead.
  • The Bears added single runs in the seventh and eighth to cushion their lead and secure the win, with Brandeis adding a run in the ninth on an RBI single by
  • Zhang improved to 4-0 on the season with 8.1 innings of six-hit ball. He allowed five hits and one earned run, striking out four and walking three. Zhang threw 111 pitches, 71 for strikes.
  • Tringe took the loss, going six innings and falling to 2-5. He allowed five hits and five earned runs, striking out three with four walks.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges and Bears will play two more this weekend, with a single game tomorrow expected to be made a doubleheader with rain in the forecast for Sunday. Saturday's game will also serve as the Judges' Senior Day.
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