Worcester, MA- The Lancers Baseball team (2-2, 0-0) would enter their second day of Spring Break action versus St. Lawrence in a St. Patrick's day battle in the sun.
Final
Game 1
Worcester State: 4
St. Lawrence: 3
Game 2
Worcester State: 13
St. Lawrence: 5
How it Happened:
In opening action Worcester would go down early in game one with the Saints working in two runs in the top of the first while the Lancers left two standing their action. Junior Joe Auger (Lowell, MA) would grab a run back in the second off a deep homer over the left field fence.
The third would find St. Lawrence tack on an additional run but Worcester answered for themselves at the bottom of the inning with sophomore Tyler Normandie (Lowell, MA) sent a line drive deep to right bringing across first year Chris Mondesir (Roslindale, MA). Worcester would attempt to tie it up with Senior Tyler Smith (Leominster, MA) on third, but the strikes were not just right leaving Worcester down 3-2 after three.
Worcester would take their first lead of the game in the bottom of the fourth in an in the park home run sophomore Kevin Doyle (Bridgewater, MA) that would also send home sophomore Ryan Jewett (Natick, MA). The fifth and sixth inning would see impeccable defense from the Lancers including a leaping snag from senior Xavier Quezada (Providence, RI) in the fifth and two deep leaping grabs in the left field by Doyle to preserve the lead.
Continued strong defense behind the pitching of Junior Steven Thomas (Worcester, MA) would find St. Lawrence falling as the team forced a ground out to claim the game one victory.
The offense did not slow down in game two, as Worcester came out to make their mark on home plate. Action would get started with Mondesir, Smith and senior Anthony Iamarone (Providence, RI) being walked, and an error on the Saints catcher would see Mondesir open the scoring for Worcester. Catlin would then go long with two outs for a 4-0 lead for the Lancers in the first. St. Lawrence would answer back with two of their own. Mondesir would be involved in the Lancers next score as he grounded out but managed to send Jewett across for run number 5.
The third inning found the final eight Worcester runs as Doyle was hit by a pitch to send across Catlin for number six. At the next at bat Mondesir would record the grand slam to left field to send across Jewett, junior Nathan Thurber (Framingham, MA) and Doyle for the 10-2 lead. Smith would then take the next pitch over the fence in left field as well for run number 11. Two batters later would find a Normandie single bringing Iamarone across while Normandie would ultimately cross off a wild pitch before the close of the inning. The Saints would score three additional before the final out, but were unable to put a dent into the third inning offensive onslaught of Worcester.
Next Up:
Worcester has a day off on the trip before returning to action on Wednesday with a seven inning double header versus Juniata with first pitch set for 9:45am on game one.