CRANSTON, RHODE ISLAND — Who says it’s too cold to play ball?
Massachusetts Maritime Academy’s baseball team picked up a solid, 10-4, win over Johnson & Wales on the road Tuesday afternoon, led by senior Greg Downs (Marshfield) and freshman Logan Sullo (Dartmouth) who both hammered out four hits apiece. Downs drove in four runs to go along with his solid performance at the plate, while Sullo registered his second four-hit output in the past week.
Massachusetts Maritime Academy southpaw Kevin Kwedor took his record to 3-1 on the season with the Buccaneers’ 10-4 win over Johnson & Wales yesterday afternoon in Cranston, Rhode Island.
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Downs staked the visiting Buccaneers (5-4) to a 2-0 lead in their opening at-bat with a two-out, two-run single before plating single tallies in the third on an RBI safety and again the fifth on a run-scoring double. The host Wildcats (3-6) sliced their deficit in half in the bottom of the fifth on an RBI double by sophomore Chris Baldwin (Pawtucket, RI) that was followed by a run-scoring single off the bat of junior Tom Elkow (Morganville, N.J.), and after Johnson & Wales closed to within a run in the sixth on sophomore Ivan Reyes’ (Cranston, RI) RBI-double, Massachusetts Maritime extended its advantage to 6-3 in the seventh on sophomore Aidan Desrosiers’ (North Attleboro) two-out, two-run single. The visitors added three insurance tallies in the eighth on RBI-singles by senior captain Bobby Rosano (North Reading) and junior Everett Walsh (Marstons Mills).
Sullo scored three runs to go with his four hits in the triumph for Massachusetts Maritime, as he and Downs combined for eight of the Buccaneers’ 14 hits on the afternoon. Walsh scored twice and both he and freshman Connor Kennedy (West Barnstable) chipped in with two hits each for the visitors in support of junior southpaw Kevin Kwedor (Marshfield).
Kwedor scattered seven hits and struck out three over the first five innings of work to improve to 3-1 on the season. Reyes, junior Mark Kerwin (Smithfield, RI) and sophomore Lou Umberto (Cranston, RI) each had two hits as part of a 13-hit attack on the day for Johnson & Wales. Johnson & Wales junior Jake Marchesseault (Wyoming, RI) suffered the setback on the mound for the Wildcats, allowing five hits and three runs with fanning four over the first three frames to fall to 0-1 on the spring.
Massachusetts Maritime’s scheduled non-league home game with Coast Guard, which was to be played tomorrow afternoon, has already been postponed, and the Buccaneers are next scheduled to host Fitchburg State in a Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference doubleheader on Friday afternoon at Commodore Hendy Field beginning at 2:00 p.m. Johnson & Wales hosts Bridgewater State in a non-league outing tomorrow afternoon at the Scotts Miracle-Gro Complex that begins at 3:30 p.m.
BATTERIES
MMA: Kevin Kwedor, T.J. Notarangelo (6), Daniel Avery (6), Zac Cooney (8) and Benjamin Crago
JWU: Jake Marchesseault, Shawn Haugh (4), Brandon Rainville (6), Ryan Cabral (7), Nick Cesino (8),
James Harlow (8), Rich Marshall (9) and Chris Baldwin
WP: Kwedor (3-1) LP: Marchesseault (0-1)
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