Baseball Splits with Norwich in Road Doubleheader

NORTHFIELD, Vt.—The Anna Maria College baseball team snapped a seven-game winless streak with a win in game two against the Cadets of Norwich University on Wednesday afternoon. Norwich took a 6-5 win in eight innings in game one before the AMCATS rallied for a 5-1 win in the nightcap.

With today's results, the AMCATS improve to 7-15 overall and 2-8 in Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) action, while Norwich now sits at 7-12 overall and 2-8 in league play.

Norwich 6, Anna Maria 5 – 8 Innings

The Cadets never trailed but allowed the AMCATS to score two runs in both the fifth and sixth innings to close a four-run gap, tying the score at 5-5 to force an extra inning, where the winning run reached on a walk, stole second, and scored on a walk-off single by Brian Baker.

Norwich scored their six runs on eight hits and five walks. Baker paced the Cadets with two hits and two RBI. Matt Sirois also tallied two RBI in a 1-for-4 effort.

The AMCATS tallied a game-high 11 hits, including two each from Corey McNair (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Corey Andrade (Mashpee, Mass.), and David Julian (Sterling, Mass.).

Trailing 5-1 after the fourth inning, the AMCATS began to climb back in the fifth as Michael Kilcoyne (Worcester, Mass.) and Nate Gray (Kingston, N.Y.) both singled and then scored on a triple by McNair.

An inning later, the AMCATS tied the score as Julian singled and Joseph Fahey (Auburn, Mass.) reached on an error. Julian scored on a single by Jonathan Roy (Worcester, Mass.), and Fahey scored on a groundout to shortstop by Gray.

Junior Matthew Leahey (Rutland, Mass.) earned the start for Anna Maria and scattered five runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out four Norwich batters before giving way to Brenden Matthews (Worcester, Mass.), who scattered a hit, a run and three walks in four innings of work.

Four different Norwich pitchers saw action in the win, which was credited to Matt Sirois, who pitched the eighth inning.

Anna Maria 5, Norwich 1

Game two saw the AMCATS lend themselves an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning after a wild pitch and error scored Gray and Nate Frederick (Worcester, Mass.), respectively. Julian hit an RBI single to left field to cap the scoring.

Leahey lifted an RBI double to left in the top of the fifth to give Anna Maria a 4-0 lead. Andrade followed with an RBI groundout in the top of the fifth to make it 5-0 AMCATS.

Norwich scored its lone run in the bottom of the seventh inning when pinch-hitting freshman Spencer Duhamel lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that scored Sirois to cut the lead to 5-1.

Sophomore Camden Frederick (Worcester, Mass.) pitched a complete-game, six-hitter for Anna Maria, allowing one earned run on six hits. He surrendered one walk and struck out one batter to improve to 2-3 on the year.

Norwich sophomore Brian Albert suffered the loss after allowing three runs (two earned) on five hits over four innings. He struck out four batters while allowing two walks.

The AMCATS will be back in action tomorrow as they travel to Lasell for a 5:00 p.m. GNAC doubleheader.