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Ben Kuja in the batters box during a baseball game, awaiting a pitch
Daniel Oren '27
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Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 10-10, 3-4 UAA
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Chicago UCHICAGO 11-11, 4-3 UAA
Winner
Brandeis BRANDEIS
10-10, 3-4 UAA
19
Final
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Chicago UCHICAGO
11-11, 4-3 UAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Brandeis BRANDEIS 8 0 0 0 3 1 7 19 17 0
Chicago UCHICAGO 0 3 0 0 3 0 0 6 5 3

W: Maurer, Jacob (2-2) L: Corey Savedoff (1-3)

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Winner Brandeis BRANDEIS 11-10, 4-4 UAA
2
Chicago UCHICAGO 11-12, 4-4 UAA
Winner
Brandeis BRANDEIS
11-10, 4-4 UAA
8
Final
2
Chicago UCHICAGO
11-12, 4-4 UAA
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Brandeis BRANDEIS 0 0 2 0 6 0 0 8 9 0
Chicago UCHICAGO 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 2 4 0

W: Milewski, John (2-0) L: Preston Benner (0-3)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Adam Levin '94

Kuja, bats come alive in DH sweep at Chicago, 19-6 and 8-2

Sophomore 3B drives in eight in two games

CHICAGO, Ill. – The Brandeis University baseball team scored 27 runs across two games, including eight RBI from sophomore 3B Ben Kuja (Madison, Conn./Daniel Hand), as the Judges secured a double-header sweep and University Athletic Association series split with the University of Chicago Maroons, winning 19-6 in the opener and 8-2 in Game 2. The games were shortened to seven innings in order for the Judges to get away on time.

TEAM RECORDS
  • Brandeis: 11-10, 4-4 UAA.
  • Chicago: 11-12, 4-4 UAA.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME ONE (Brandeis 19, Chicago 6)
  • The Judges pounced on the Maroons from the jump in the opener, sending 12 batters to the plate and scoring eight runs on five hits, three walks and an error.
  • Kuja and junior 2B Matt Chafin (Canton, Mass. / Canton) both reached base twice in the frame, with Kuja walking and delivering a two-run ground-rule double, and Chafin adding a double and a single.
  • Chicago took advantage of some wildness from Brandeis grad student Jacob Maurer (Dayton, Ohio / Archbishop Carroll) to score three times in the second inning, drawing four straight walks and getting a bases-loaded double from Luke Weston. The Maroons scored two runs on the play, but Brandeis threw out a runner at the plate to avoid further damage.
  • Both teams scored three runs in the fifth inning, making the score 11-6.
  • Kuja delivered an RBI single in the sixth and a two-run triple as part of a seven-run Brandeis seventh inning as the Judges blew things open for the 19-6 win.
  • It was Brandeis's largest scoring total of the season and the most ever scored by the Judges in a UAA game.
  • Kuja paced the offense by going 4-4 with career-highs of four runs scored and six RBI. He had a double and a triple among his four hits, the second four-hit game of his career.
  • Chafin finished with three hits, while junior CF Connor Crowley (Guilford, Conn. / Notre Dame-West Haven) and first-year SS Noah Koong (Sammamish, Wash./Eastlake) each scored three runs. Sophomore RF Bobby Quill (Raynham, Mass. / Bridgewater-Raynham Reg.) had three RBI out of the nine-spot of the batting order.
  • Maurer picked up the win to improve to 2-2 on the season. He went 4.1 innings, allowing four hits and six runs, walking five with two strikeouts. 
  • First-year lefty Jackson Herzog (New York, N.Y. / Dalton School) threw the final 2.2 innings, allowing just one hit and two walks with one strikeout.
HOW IT HAPPENED, GAME TWO (Brandeis 8, Chicago 2)
  • The Judges used the long ball in the second game, going deep three times to produce seven of their eight runs.
  • In the third inning, Kuja delivered his seventh and eighth RBI of the day by taking a 1-2 pitch out of the park to center field to give Brandeis a 2-0 lead. It was the first homer of Kuja's career.
  • Brandeis blew things open in the fifth, scoring six runs on two more blasts. After Chafin drove in a run with an infield single, sophomore 1B Danny Tambascia (Newton, Mass./Newton North) went deep to center with two on to make it a 6-0 lead. It was his first of the season and second of his career.
  • Two batters later, junior Henry Aronwald (Rye Brook, N.Y./Trinity Pawling) went deep down the left field line to make it 8-0. Aronwald tied for the team lead with his second blast of the season and the seventh of his career.
  • Chicago scored single runs in the fifth and sixth, but couldn't string together anything more.
  • The offense supported sophomore starter John Milewski (Framingham, Mass./Framingham), who tossed 4.2 innings of three-hit ball. He gave up one earned run, walking four and striking out one.
  • Sophomore Brady Lane (Hingham, Mass./BC High) closed out the final 2.1 frames, allowing just one hit and one earned run, striking out two and walking one.
UP NEXT
  • The Judges play a non-conference contest at Amherst College on Wednesday, April 8 at 3:30 p.m. before their first home UAA series next weekend against NYU.
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