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Bates BAT 0-5
9
Winner LaGrange LC 1-4
Bates BAT
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Final
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LaGrange LC
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Bates BAT 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 7 5
LaGrange LC 3 0 0 3 1 1 1 0 X 9 14 0

W: Zach Tatham (1-0) L: Levangie, Will (0-0) S: Daniel Garrett (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball falls 9-2 at LaGrange

LAGRANGE, Ga. – The Bates baseball team dropped to 0-5 on its season-opening trip to Georgia on Thursday, with a 9-2 loss to LaGrange College at Cleaveland Field.

With both teams entering the game 0-4, the host Panthers (1-4) combined 14 hits and eight walks, scoring in five of eight innings, including three in the first and fourth. The Bobcats helped their cause with five errors in the field.

Sophomore right fielder Samuel Warren (Norfolk, Va.) was 2-for-3 with a walk and a double and senior 3B Kevin Davis (North Andover, Mass.) was 2-for-5 with an RBI to lead Bates' seven-hit effort at the plate. Bates stranded 11 runners in the game, but LaGrange left 15 men on base.

Bates junior starting pitcher Will Levangie (Frederick, Md.) was greeted roughly with three runs in the first inning, one earned, but he worked out of bases-loaded jams for back-to-back shutout innings in the second and third before giving way to sophomore Rob DiFranco (Melrose, Mass.), the first of five Bates relievers.

Daniel Garrett strung four shutout innings in relief of LaGrange starter Zach Tatham (1-0) for a save. Tatham allowed four hits and five walks over five innings while striking out three.

Jake Hipple was 3-for-4 with a double for the Panthers; Jim Reed, Keith Sims, Casey Bell and Chad Pigg had two hits apiece, with Bell and Pigg also collecting doubles.

Bates countered LaGrange's three in the bottom of the first with a run in the top of the second. Junior left fielder Nate Pajka (Douglas, Mass.) led off with a single and reached third on Warren's double. First-year shortstop Brendan Fox (West Hartford, Conn.) walked to load the bases, and sophomore second baseman Berto Diaz (Carson, Calif.) plated Pajka with a one-out sacrifice fly to right.

Junior left fielder Rockwell Jackson (Fort Worth, Texas) was hit by a pitch to lead off the fifth. He made it to second on a passed ball and third on a ground ball, and scored on Davis's single through the right side. Sophomore Sam Berry (South Hamilton, Mass.) and Warren kept the inning alive with walks to load the bases, but all three runners were stranded on a groundout, on Tatham's last pitch of the game.

Bates plays at LaGrange again on Saturday, a doubleheader beginning at 2pm, before returning to Maine.

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