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Mark Duffel
16
Winner Holy Cross HC 3-6
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CSU Bakersfield CSUB 5-5
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Holy Cross HC
3-6
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Final
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CSU Bakersfield CSUB
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Holy Cross HC 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 2 5 16 18 0
CSU Bakersfield CSUB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 4 3

W: Crotty, Connor (1-0) L: Butler, Davonté (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Holy Cross Routs `Runners

Bakersfield, Calif. – Holy Cross pounded out 18 hits, including seven doubles, and cruised to a 16-2 win over CSU Bakersfield at Hardt Field on Monday night. The visiting Crusaders scored six times in the fifth inning to break the game wide open and drop the Roadrunners to 5-5 on the year. The two teams will square off in the series finale tomorrow night, with CSUB attempting to salvage a split of this weekend's four-game set.

"There isn't much we can take from tonight's game," said CSUB Head Coach Jeremy Beard. "We got out-played across the board. We have to put this one behind us and get ready to play much better tomorrow."  

The Crusaders went quietly in the top of the first, before Bakersfield loaded the bases on a pair of walks and a hit batter, and seemed to be in business, in the bottom half of the inning. But consecutive strikeouts from Holy Cross starter Jack DiLauro ended the `Runner threat and brought his own team back to life.

Centerfielder Austin Masel led off the top of the second with a sharp single up the middle, before back-to-back doubles from Ben Dellacono and Chris Rinaldi quickly gave the Crusaders a 2-0 lead. Holy Cross plated another when DH Andrew McKenna's seeing-eye single through the right side would score Rinaldi.

It marked the beginning of a big night from the middle of the Holy Cross line-up, as Masel, Dellacono and Rinaldi combined to go 11-for-17 on the night with seven runs scored and 10 RBI.

McKenna finished 3-for-5, with two runs and a pair of RBI out of the nine hole.

Bakersfield junior Davonte Butler ran his season opening scoreless streak to 12.0 innings with his 1-2-3 first, before running into trouble in the second. Butler would eventually allow four earned runs over 4.2 innings pitched, while striking out seven Crusaders and suffering his first loss of the season.

CSUB drew seven walks, but managed just four hits of their own on the night.

Tyler Jorgensen was 1-for-3 with a walk to stretch his current hitting streak to nine games. The senior has reached base in every game this season.

Bakersfield rallied in the ninth, scoring twice on an RBI single from senior Eric Charles and a bases loaded walk by junior Damian Henderson, but it was too little too late.

Freshman Jaykob Acosta is expected to get the ball to start game four of the series with Holy Cross tomorrow night. Acosta threw six scoreless innings at LMU in his first career start on Feb. 19. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.
 
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