TUCSON, Ariz. – The Macalester College baseball team split a pair of games with Framingham State, winning the first game 5-2 before falling 6-4 in Game 2 Thursday morning at the Tucson Invitational. The Scots are now 6-5 on the season, while the Rams are 6-4.
In the first game, Macalester got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the second inning. First year
Jack Sahargun (Coto de Caza, Calif./Tesoro) hit a sacrifice fly to score senior
Ben Castagnetti (Bethesda, Md./Walt Whitman), then junior
Jared Abelson (Herndon, Va./South Lakes) singled home junior
Sam Goldberg (N. Potomac, Md./Thomas S. Wootton) for a 2-0 lead. Framingham State responded with two runs in the top of the third to tie the score at 2-2. Then in the bottom of the fifth, with Abelson and sophomore
Alex Bearden (St. Louis, Mo./Mary Institute Country Day) on base, junior
Graham Low (Piedmont, Calif./Piedmont) blasted a three-run home run to left to put the Scots on top, 5-2. Macalester kept the Rams from threatening in the final two innings to close out the win.
Sophomore
Matthew Plisko (Alpharetta, Ga./Pace Academy 19) started and held Framingham State to two runs on five hits while striking out seven and walking none in six innings of work to improve to 3-1. Junior
Zach Anderson (Evanston, Ill./Evanston Twp.) pitched a perfect seventh inning to earn his second save of the season.
The Scots started the second game well, pushing four runs across in the top of the first inning for a 4-0 lead. Junior
Andy Hayes (Chicago, Ill./Whitney Young) hit a two-run single, while senior
Alex Baretta (Pittsburgh, Pa./Central Catholic) and first year
Sam Rosevear (Lewisburg, Pa./Lewisburg) also drove in runs in the inning. The Rams battled back with two runs in the bottom of the second, another in the fifth and three more in the sixth to lead 6-4. Macalester put runners in scoring position in the second, sixth and seventh innings but were unable to get the key hit.
Senior
Nick McMullen (Payson, Ariz./Payson) delivered two doubles and went 3-for-4 in the loss. Macalester pitching gave up just four hits but walked 10 and hit three batters.
The Scots play a single game against Buena Vista University at 10:00 a.m. Pacific at the Kino Sports Complex.
