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Baseball Team Bows to Tufts

4/18/2006

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Sports Information Director Tripp Athletic Center dgeringer@umassd.edu


NORTH DARTMOUTH, MA-Four Tufts pitchers scattered ten hits and the Jumbos hit three home runs and went on to defeat the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth's baseball team, 7-2, in a non-conference game at the UMass Dartmouth Athletic Complex Tuesday afternoon.

Senior first baseman Dan Mancini (Marlboro, MA/Marlboro HS) provided the offense for the Corsairs. Mancini's solo homer in the bottom of the sixth inning accounted for UMass Dartmouth's first run, and his eighth-inning, run-scoring double that drove in junior designated hitter Will Mahoney (Mattapoisett, MA/Old Rochester Regional HS) accounted for the other.

Brian McDonough's two-run homer in the first staked the Jumbos to a 2-0 lead. Chris Decembrele slammed a solo shot off the back off the Cressy Field stands in the fourth inning, and Jim O'Leary hit a solo homer in the fifth inning. Kevin Casey's RBI single in the seventh drove in two more runs for Tufts.

Senior right-hander Jason Thompson (West Bridgewater, MA/Plymouth North HS) pitched the first 5 2/3 innings for the Corsairs. He allowed four earned runs and struck out seven and took the loss, falling to 0-3. Carlos Lopez, the first of four Tufts pitchers, allowed three hits in five scoreless innings and earned the victory, improving to 2-0.

UMass Dartmouth fell to 5-20 with the defeat, while Tufts improved to 13-11 with the victory. The Corsairs will return to action when they host Roger Williams in a non-conference game Tuesday afternoon.

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