In a game that lasted four hours and twenty five minutes due to a lightning delay in the sixth inning,
Trinity outhit Bates, 13-12, as both teams combined for seven errors on the day. Bantam senior pitcher Jed Robinson (Winchester, Mass.) earned the start on the bump and gave up four earned on eight hits while striking out five in his six inning no decision. Bates senior captain Connor Colombo (Mendon, Mass.) finished with five earned runs on seven hits in 3.2 innings in his start on the mound for the Bobcats. For Trinity, junior Nick DiBenedetto (Fort Myers, Fla.) went 3-for-5 with an RBI while freshman Ben Reinisch (Troy, N.Y.) chipped in two RBIs on a 2-for-4 afternoon. Bates was led offensively by Brendan Fox (West Hartford, Conn.) who went 3-for-6 and Ryan McCarthy (Plaistow, N.H.) who went 2-for-5 with three RBIs.
Bates took a quick 2-0 lead in the top of the first on a sacrifice RBI bunt, followed by a wild pitch, but Trinity answered in the home half of the inning on an RBI single from Pidgeon that brought home Reinisch, followed by freshman Johnny Stamatis (Ridgefield, Conn.) who scored on a throwing error from the Bates right fielder.
Trinity opened up a three-run lead in the bottom of the third thanks to an RBI double from freshman Ian Steckel (Winchester, Mass.), followed by a sac-fly off the bat of sophomore Brendan Pierce (Hingham, Mass.), and an RBI single by sophomore Matthew Toth (New Canaan, Conn.). The Bantams added another run in the bottom of the fourth to make it 6-2 when senior Nick Pezzella (Worcester, Mass.) scored his first of two runs on the afternoon on a sacrifice fly by Reinisch.
DiBenedetto executed a perfect hit-and-run in the home half of the fifth inning that wound up scoring senior co-captain Scott Cullinane (East Greenwich, Conn.) after the Bobcats' right fielder misplayed the ball. DiBenedetto was thrown at at third base but not before Trinity claimed a 7-2 advantage.
The Bates offense exploded for four runs in the top of the sixth thanks to RBI singles from senior Berto Diaz (Carson, Calif.) and Joe Dinoto (West Friendship, Md.) before a hard hit ball by McCarthy to centerfield was misplayed by Trinity. The Bobcats cut the Bantam lead to one before lightning forced the teams inside for close to an hour.
After the delay, sophomore McLane Hill (Marlborough, Conn.) came in to pitch for Trinity while senior Rob DiFranco (Melrose, Mass.) did the same for Bates. DiFranco loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth but managed to wiggle out of the jam unscathed. Both pitchers put up zeros in the seventh before an RBI single from Diaz in the eighth tied the game at seven.
Neither team scored in the ninth which sent the game to extra innings. Pidgeon, who came on to pitch for Hill in the eighth after the Diaz single, gave up a McCarthy RBI single in the tenth which put Bates up, 8-7, giving way to senior co-captain Sam Jordan (Sherborn, Mass.) who shut the door to keep it a one-run ballgame.
With Trinity down to its last two outs after a strikeout to lead off the inning, Pezzella stung a ground ball to second base that Bates was unable to handle, putting the tying run on base. Pezzella then took second for his third stolen base of the afternoon before a single to the outfield by Reinisch brought him home to tie things at eight. A speedy Mackenze Genauer (Montclair, N.J.) pinch ran for Reinisch and advanced to third on a single off the bat of Stamatis. With runners at the corners and one out, Pidgeon walked up to bat and soon thereafter drove a ball through the third base-shortstop hole that brought home Genauer and put the Bantams in the win column.
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