Box Score
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. – Less than 24 hours after raking four William Paterson pitchers for 22 hits in a 13-run victory, the Eastern Connecticut State University baseball team managed only five hits off two Carleton College pitchers in a 7-2 loss Wednesday afternoon at Chain of Lakes Park.
The loss is the first after three opening wins in Florida for Eastern (7-4). Carleton is 3-2.
Junior righty Will Schnepf and senior lefty Mark Fernandez scattered five hits (three of them singles) while fanning nine, hitting two batters and walking only one. Schnepf (1-0) gave up two hits while fanning five and walking one over the first five innings and Fernandez came on to stop the Warriors on three hits without walking a batter and fanning four, allowing both Eastern runs.
Carleton collected 12 hits off four Eastern pitchers, who struck out six and walked four. Four Easter errors accounted for three unearned runs.
The winning pair combined on a shutout through eight innings before the Warriors, trailing, 7-0, broke through for their two runs on senior catcher
Hank Penders' (Wethersfield) first home run of the season – a two-out shot made possible when sophomore DH
Ian Moser (Bellingham, MA) reached on a third-strike wild pitch.
In his first start, sophomore lefty
Joseph Barlovic (Bergenfield, NJ) pitched into the fifth inning, allowing two earned runs on five hits while fanning four without a walk.
Five different players drive in one run each for Carleton, who banged out five doubles and stole five bases. Three of the doubles drove in runs.