Trinity Baseball Drops First Game in Series Against Colby

Waterville, Maine - The Trinity College baseball team came out on the wrong end of a 3-2 ballgame against the Colby College Mules in Friday afternoon New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) East baseball action in Waterville. Colby broke a 2-2 tie in the bottom of the eighth and held on to earn the one-run victory, Colby's first divisional win of the year as they move to 5-10 overall. Trinity falls to 7-11 on the year and 2-2 in NESCAC East play.

Colby starter Tommy Forese (New Canaan, Conn.) scattered five Bantam hits across 6.2 innings of
work, striking out two and walking just one. Trinity senior Jed Robinson (Winchester, Mass.) got the nod for the Bantams as he went six innings and gave up five hits with four strikeouts and one walk in the no decision.

The Mules scored the first run of the game in the fifth inning thanks to a lead-off walk by senior Andrew Currier (Santa Monica, Calif.). Currier opened with the free pass and was sacrificed to second by Andrew Della Volpe (Concord, Mass.) before he scored on a Jackson Ward (Wilton, Conn.) single to center field.

Colby added another run in the sixth when Zach Ellenthal (Wilton, Conn.) got hit by a pitch to open the inning. Ellenthal moved to second on a single by Dan Csaplar (Winchester, Mass.) and moved to third on a hit by pitch, eventually scoring on a sacrifice fly from Currier.

Trinity pushed across two runs in the top of the seventh inning to tie the game at two. Sophomore Brendan Pierce (Hingham, Mass.) worked a one-out walk after fouling off five pitches. Senior Daniel Pidgeon (Darien, Conn.) then smacked a double to left field to push Pierce to third base to put two runners on with less than two outs. Pierce scored on an RBI ground out by junior Nicholas DiBenedetto (Fort Myers, Fla.) and Pidgeon later came home on a single by senior co-captain Scott Cullinane (East Greenwich, R.I.).

Colby pushed ahead with a lone run in the bottom of the eighth inning when Della Volpe singled in Soren Hanson (Billerica, Mass.) with two outs in the eighth off of Trinity pitcher McLane Hill (Marlborough, Conn.) who was saddled with the loss.

Colby pitcher Daniel Schoenfeld (Evanston, Ill.) struck out the side in the ninth to earn the win in 2.1 innings of relief.

Trinity and Colby take to the field today for a doubleheader that begins at 12 noon.