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AMHERST, Mass. - Behind a complete game effort and a career-high 12 strikeouts from senior Brandon Walsh, University of Massachusetts baseball rolled to an 8-2 victory over La Salle on Sunday afternoon at Earl Lorden Field. The win, which marks the Minutemen’s fourth in the past five games, gives UMass the series victory over the Explorers (11-30, 3-9 A-10) and improves the squad to 11-18 on the season and 4-8 in conference play.
Walsh, who faced just one batter over the minimum through the first eight innings of the contest, let up two runs in ninth and scattered five hits, walking two, en route to his second victory (2-0) of the week.
With the teams in a scoreless deadlock through three and a half innings of play, UMass pushed across
a pair of runs in the bottom of the fourth to take a 2-0 lead. Senior John Jennings dropped a one-out double into left and scored following back-to-back singles from junior Mike Geannelis and sophomore Hunter Carey. After a walk to junior Jon Avallone loaded the bases, freshman Ryan Lever brought in Geannelis with a sacrifice fly.
The Minutemen then broke the game open in the seventh, sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring five runs on three hits and a pair of La Salle errors. Geannelis drove in two of the five for UMass in the frame courtesy of a one-out single through the right side with the bases loaded.
Geannelis added another RBI in the eighth, scoring junior Mike Hart, who reached with a one-out double, with a sacrifice fly to push the margin to 8-0.
Joey Ravert’s two-RBI double in the ninth plated the only runs of the contest for the Explorers.
Seven batters combined for UMass’ 13 hits on the day, paced by Hart’s 4-for-5 afternoon at the plate. Geannelis contributed three of the Minutemen’s seven RBI and was 2-for-4 with two runs scored.
UMass will return to action on Wed., Apr. 27, when the squad will travel to Hamden, Conn., to face Quinnipiac at 3 p.m.
Recap is courtesy of UMass
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