April 23, 2003

Box Score

BOSTON - The baseball team will go in search of its sixth Beanpot title after it thrashed Northeastern, 13-7, in its first-round game on Wednesday, April 23 at Fenway Park.

The Eagles (19-16) will face Harvard in the championship game at Fenway on Thursday, April 24 at 5 p.m. The Crimson (13-7) rallied for four runs in the ninth to defeat UMass-Amherst, 8-7, in the other first-round game. Boston College and Harvard met on April 15 in Cambridge, with the Maroon and Gold whipping the Crimson, 24-6.

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The Eagles jumped all over Northeastern starter Jim Madison in the bottom of the first, pushing across five runs. Freshman catcher Shawn McGill (South Kingstown, R.I.) brought in two with a single to left, while senior center fielder Matt Lederhos (Westwood, Mass.) and sophomore left fielder Jason Delaney (Hanson, Mass.) each plated one pwith a double and single, respectively. The Eagles' other run of the inning resulted from a Husky fielding error.

Northeastern (7-16) got two of those runs back in the top of the second on Jeff Heriot's two-run blast over the Green Monster.

In the third, an RBI single through the right side of the infield by senior shortstop Ryan Leahy (Salem, Mass.) chased Madison from the game and gave Boston College a 6-2 advantage. Later in the frame, Lederhos made it 7-2 when he crossed the plate on a double steal.

Heriot struck again in the fourth, ripping an RBI triple that rolled into the Triangle. The next batter, Matt Morizio, drove him in with a single, cutting the Eagles' lead to 7-4.

Boston College put the game away with a decisive six-run fifth inning. Leahy plated two runs with a base hit up the middle, sophomore first baseman Ryan Morgan (Weymouth, Mass.) lined a two-run double off the scoreboard, sophomore right fielder Mike Flynn (Trumbull, Conn.) roped an RBI double to left-center, and senior designated hitter Vinny Scavone (Seffner, Fla.) hit a sacrifice fly to center.

Sophomore David Preziosi (Oradell, N.J.) earned his first career win. He came into the game in the fourth and gave up two runs on five hits over the next four innings.