Baseball hits way to win at Bridgeport in series opener
BRIDGEPORT, Connecticut - The American International College baseball team hit three longballs and collected 16 hits total in an 11-6 win at the University of Bridgeport on Friday, April 7.
AIC is now 8-16 on the year.
It was clear from the start how AIC would attack the game, as Brendan Edvardsen led the contest off with a shot to left field to make it 1-0. However, the Purple Knights plated two in the second to briefly take a 2-1 lead.
In the third, AIC erupted for four. Chad Lavelle doubled and Edvardsen knocked a single to drive him in. Josh Frometa then doubled and Kiernan Caffrey tripled before Jackson Haker singled, each driving in the hitter before them and putting AIC up 5-2.
Bridgeport again tied the game with three in the fourth, but AIC just as quickly untied it in the fifth. Haker singled, and so did Brandon Gaul, and both advanced two extra bases when the Bridgeport left fielder misplayed the ball. Connor Daly then had another base hit, driving Gaul home.
Both teams scored in the sixth, with Edvardsen going deep to left again for AIC, and Haker led off the seventh with a launch as well before AIC capped the offensive eruption in the eighth as Frometa singled and ultimately came home on a Haker double. Haker then scored on a failed pickoff followed by a wild pitch to put the game away.
Ethan Teixeira earned the win, throwing six solid innings and scattering eight hits with two strikeouts. Anderson Cuello Batista scored a three-frame save, allowing just two hits over his shutout third of the game, walking one and fanning one.
The two teams shift to Springfield for a pair of seven-inning games on Saturday, April 8 beginning at noon at Richard F. Bedard Field.