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Baseball Rolls To 6-0 With 10-5 Win vs. Bethune-Cookman
Feb. 27, 2009
Box Score
FORT MYERS, Fla. - The Boston College baseball team won its sixth-straight game to open the season with a 10-5 victory against Bethune-Cookman Friday at Swanson Stadium in the FGCU Classic. Sophomore John Leonard tossed a solid game to get the win and junior Tony Sanchez had four hits and five RBI. The Eagles 6-0 start is the best in over 10 years. Leonard pitched 6.0 innings and allowed three runs on eight hits. He struck out seven batters and walked one. Sanchez went 4-for-5 in the game with five RBI and his first homer of the season. His four hits are a career high. Junior Robbie Anston went 3-for-6 with three runs and a pair of doubles. Freshman Brad Zapenas scored three times while sophomores Garret Smith and Mike Sudol both drove in a pair of runs. BC scored three runs in the first inning for the second-straight game and never looked back. Anston led off with a double down the left field line and then Zapenas got him home when the second baseman mishandled a throw on his sacrifice bunt. Sanchez then blasted an opposite field home run on an 0-1 count to put the Eagles up 3-0 quickly. Bethune-Cookman got a run back immediately in the bottom of the inning. C.J. Lauriello took Leonard's first pitch and doubled and then Jairo Acevedo drove him in with a single through the right side of the infield. BC tacked on two more in the top of the fourth to go up 5-1. Junior Mike Belfiore doubled down the left field line with one out and then classmate Barry Butera got to first when he was hit by a pitch. After Smith grounded into a fielder's choice, Sudol delivered a two-out, two-strike double after fouling off a few pitches.
The Eagles put three more on the board in the fifth to put the game out of reach. Anston nailed the 330 marker on the right field wall for a leadoff double. Zapenas sacrificed cleanly again and the pitcher bobbled the ball to put runners on the corners. Sanchez sent a shot through the right side to score Anston and after eventually loading the bases, Smith drove in a pair of runs with a single through the left side. The Wildcats put a run on the board in both the fifth and sixth innings, but Sanchez matched that with a pair of two-out RBI singles in the sixth and eighth innings. Bethune-Cookman would score two runs in the ninth before junior Chris Kowalski came on to end the game. Acevedo went 2-for-5 for the Wildcats (3-3) with two RBI while Lauriello also recorded a pair of hits. BC (6-0) will face Towson on Saturday at noon at Swanson Stadium on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast. |
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