Lasell Hands Baseball 4-1 Loss

BOSTON, Mass.— A day after playing a near perfect season-opener, UMass Boston Baseball committed three errors and managed just five hits, in a 4-1 non-conference loss to Lasell College at Monan Park.

THE BASICS
Lasell College 4, UMass Boston 1
(UMass Boston 1-1)
(Lasell College 0-0)

HOW IT HAPPENED

The Lasers struck for a single run in each of the first two innings and added one more run in the sixth and eighth innings, to earn their first win in five all-time tries against the Beacons.

 

Great Northeast Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year Josh Bahnick combined with two other Lasers pitchers to allow just five hits and two walks in the 4-1 win. Bahnick opened the game allowing one hit and two walks in four innings, before junior Casey Johnson came on and earned the win by throwing three scoreless frames. Gary Trottier pitched the final two innings for Lasell and allowed one run on one hit.

UMass Boston was led by junior catcher Anthony Searles (Shelton, Conn.), who led the Beacons
with two hits and the team's lone RBI. Freshman Ray Zincone (West Warwick, R.I.) added his first collegiate hit in his first start and Josh Lopez (New Haven, Conn.) and Dave Murphy (Plymouth, Mass.) were the final Beacons to pick up hits in the loss.

Sophomore Alex Carusotto (Pittsfield, Mass.) was the star on the mound, as the sophomore came on in the third and allowed just one unearned run in five innings. Carusotto gave up three hits, one walk and struck out three in his season debut.

Freshman Joe Maguire (Peabody, Mass.) and Manny Garcia (Boston, Mass.) each made their collegiate debuts in the loss, as the pair threw the final two innings of the contest.

Sophomore Sal Frosceno (Derby, Conn.) took the loss for UMass Boston, as he allowed two runs, one earned, in two innings. Frosceno walked three batters and struck out two.

Lasell took the lead in the top of the first thanks to a lead-off walk, a throwing error and an RBI groundout. With a runner on third and one out, Hector Coscione drove in Dan Gagnon with a groundout to third.

The Lasers used some more small-ball to tack on a second run in the second, as Evan Michalek plated Chris Maringo with a sacrifice bunt.

In the top of the sixth, Lasell made it 3-0 when the Beacons dropped a fly ball with two outs and a pair of runners on base.

UMass Boston had a great chance to break through in the bottom half of the inning, but the Beacons couldn't score a run-despite loading the bases with just one out.

Lasell tacked on another insurance run in the eighth with Michalek hitting a sacrifice fly to deep center, to score Brandon Valentin.

Searles broke up the shutout bid in the bottom half of the inning, as he legged out an infield single to score freshman Nick Herzog (Riverhead, N.Y.).

BY THE NUMBERS

• With the win, Lasell College improved to 1-4 all-time against UMass Boston.
• The two teams combined to leave 17 runners on base, with the Beacons finishing with eight LOB.
• UMass Boston set a new attendance record at Monan Park with 175 fans in attendance.

WHO'S NEXT
UMass Boston will fly to Florida on Wednesday and open up the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational on Thursday when they take on Trine University at 4:15 p.m.
WHO'S NEXT
UMass Boston will fly to Florida on Wednesday and open up the RussMatt Central Florida Invitational on Thursday when they take on Trine University at 4:15 p.m.