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Lawry
Tim Duren
7
Winner Tampa UT 40-9, 24-5 SSC
4
Eckerd College ECB 18-29, 11-18 SSC
Winner
Tampa UT
40-9, 24-5 SSC
7
Final
4
Eckerd College ECB
18-29, 11-18 SSC
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Tampa UT 0 0 0 0 6 0 1 0 0 7 13 0
Eckerd College ECB 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 4 10 2

W: Haden Erbe (10-1) L: Stipp, Jacob (5-5) S: Dalton Ross (4)

4
Tampa UT 40-10, 24-6 SSC
6
Winner Eckerd College ECB 19-29, 12-18 SSC
Tampa UT
40-10, 24-6 SSC
4
Final
6
Eckerd College ECB
19-29, 12-18 SSC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Tampa UT 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 4 4 1
Eckerd College ECB 1 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 X 6 10 2

W: Lawry, Brendan (3-3) L: Michael Paul (8-3) S: Cox, Tyler (4)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Amanda Green, Director of Athletic Communications

Tritons Take Finale, Split Twinbill With No. 2 Tampa

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - After dropping the opener, 7-4, the Eckerd baseball team bounced back to take the finale, 6-4, over No. 2 Tampa thanks to a pair of two-run homeruns by Mitch Donofrio, and Brendan Lawry's dominance on the mound Friday at the Turley Athletic Complex. 

Eckerd jumped out to an early 2-0 lead in the opener thanks to an RBI single by Tyler Cox in the first and a Danny Gutcher homerun in the fourth. However, the Spartans took the lead in the fifth with six runs on a pair of RBI singles and a grand slam. 

EC rallied for two runs in the sixth on a pair of Gutcher and Jake Andriole RBI doubles. UT added an insurance run in the seventh before taking the game, 7-4. 

The Tritons again took an early lead with a Cox RBI single in the opening frame in the finale. UT tied the game at 1-1 after stealing home in the third. 

Mitch Donofrio gave EC a 3-1 lead in the third with a two-run homerun. Tampa added a run in the fifth, but Donofrio stretched Eckerd's lead with another two-run blast in the fifth, and Andriole gave EC a 6-2 favor with a sacrifice fly in the inning. 

The Spartans tried to rally with a run in the eighth and ninth frames, but Cox halted the Spartans' rally in the ninth to collect the save.   

HOW IT ENDED 
Game One 
FINAL: No. 2 Tampa 7, Eckerd 4
WP: Erbe(10-1) LP: Stipp(5-5) S: Ross (4) HR: Gutcher (4), Sullivan (11)

Game Two 
FINAL: Eckerd 6, No. 2 Tampa 4
WP: Lawry (3-3) LP: Paul (8-3) S: Cox (4) HR: Donofrio 2 (12)

RECORDS: Eckerd 19-29 (12-18 SSC); No. 2 Tampa 40-10 (24-6 SSC)

NOTES AND NUMBERS

  • Gutcher collected three hits in the opener. He also had two RBIs. 
  • Donofrio and Joe Wike had three hits each in the finale. Donofrio also had four RBIs. 
  • Brendan Lawry threw a gem on the mound in the finale, limiting the Spartans to just two hits and one earned run over five innings. He also struck out five. 
  • Cox collected his fourth save of the season in the finale. 
  • Gutcher's homerun was his third of the season.
  • Donofrio's two homeruns were his 11th and 12th of the season, ranking ninth in single-season program history. He ends his career with 23 homeruns, ranking tied for sixth in program history. 
  • The games marked the end of the careers of 10 Tritons: Mitch Donofrio, Kyle Durham, Jake Sanderson, Ryan Lashley, Troy Dunnam, Mikey Burke, Tyler Venditti, Connor Price, Danny Gutcher, and Zach Pfeil. 
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