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Junior Brian O’ Sullivan gave up three hits over 5 innings in the first game, while Junior C/1B Bryan Boehler went 4 for 4 with four runs batted in the second contest as the UMass Club Baseball Minutemen swept SUNY Albany in the second day of back-to-back double headers. UMass won the first game 9-1, while shutting the door on a 7-5 win to push their record to 4-0. Boehler was 6 for 8 with 5 RBI’s on the day, showing his versatility at catcher and first base. Ryan Davenport (sophomore) was 3 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored in the second game, while Luke Lysak (sophomore) went 2 for 3 with an RBI and run scored over the day. The opening game of the double header was owned by UMass pitching. Pitcher Brian O’Sullivan went 5 strong innings, giving up three hits and a walk, while striking out seven Albany hitters. The Minutemen jumped out to an early 2-0 lead with an RBI walk by Matt Hillman (freshman) in the first and RBI double by Ryan Gregson (junior) in the second. O’Sullivan stayed strong, overmatching SUNY bats, as UMass plated five runs in the fourth inning, making the score 7-0. Boehler, Hillman, and Lysak all contributed with RBI singles. O’Sullivan handed the ball to Greg Genatossio (sophomore) in the 6th, who gave up a walk and a hit over two innings, striking out the side in the 7th to close out a 9-1 win. James Greenwood (junior) went 2 for 3 with a walk, reaching base all four times he stepped to the plate. Freshman Pitcher James Barry picked up right where O’Sullivan and Genatossio left off to start the second game. The game quickly rolled to the middle of the third inning, where Barry already had recorded six strikeouts (finished with eight), striking out the side in the 3rd. Leading things off in the bottom half, he reached on an infield single, following by a Ryan Davenport single. Both would score on a Bryan Boehler base hit to make the score 2-0. Barry would face trouble in the 4th and 5th innings, but got out of both innings without giving up a run. A strikeout and double play ended the 4th while an early favorite for play of the year ended the 5th. Barry would fake a pickoff to 2nd, where SS John Rooney and 2B Andrew Wilson acted like he threw it away, confusing the base-runner. He immediately took off and was tagged by Barry who still had the ball. The Minutemen would notch another run with an RBI double by Boehler. Sophomore Pitcher Chris Robinson relieved Barry in the sixth inning with a 3-0 lead. SUNY Albany would go on to score two quick runs and still had the bases loaded. Freshman Paul Haines-Lapenta relieved Robinson, and immediately got a groundout to end the rally, leaving the score 3-2 heading into the 7th. In the 7th, after a groundout, Greg Genatossio ripped his second hit of the game to start things off. Luke Lysak added a pinch-hit single and Haines-Lapenta reached on an error, scoring Genatossio. After an RBI single by Davenport and a sacrifice bunt by Wilson (sophomore), Boehler made the score 7-2 with his fourth hit of the game. Haines-Lapenta would face control problems in the 7th, walking three and hitting a batter, but got the last three outs to grab the save in a 7-5 win. The UMass Club Baseball Team now takes its undefeated record to NYU this
Saturday for two games, followed by two home games on Sunday against the
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