By Bailey Knecht, News Correspondent
A strong offensive performance fueled the Northeastern men’s baseball team to its 10th victory of the season on Tuesday at Friedman Diamond.
Coming off a weekend in which they won two of three games at Villanova University, the Huskies dominated the Boston College Eagles, winning 7-0. The Eagles now have a 7-15 overall record at Friedman Diamond, but still lead the all-time series with Northeastern 90-59-2.
Northeastern starting pitcher James Mulry struggled in the first few innings. The sophomore lefty allowed two walks in the first, but he found his stride and only allowed one hit during his seven innings of work. Junior Isaac Lippert relieved Mulry in the eighth inning.
The Eagles rotated in three different pitchers, but they still had no answer for the Huskies’ hot hitters. Senior outfielder Connor Lyons notched three hits in the game, including a triple just a few feet short of a home run in right field.
“I knew their right fielder was playing pretty shallow,” Lyons said “I just hoped I could get to third base at that point.”
The third inning triple sent redshirt-sophomore catcher Josh Treff to home plate for the first score of the game. Redshirt-sophomore infielder Michael Foster’s sacrifice fly sent Lyons home, and the Huskies scored a third time after a wild pitch by Eagles’ Eric Stevens.
After a scoreless fourth inning for both teams, the Huskies began to notch up more points in the fifth. Junior infielder Jason Vosler, freshman catcher Nick Fanneron, senior outfielder Sean Lyons, sophomore infielder Mike Piscopo and freshman catcher Joey Scambia all hit singles to make the score 6-0 at the end of the fifth.
“You know, it’s cold out here, so we’re trying to play with a lot of tempo and put the ball in play a lot,” Connor Lyons said. “We accomplished getting our runs through in that inning, so we did a good job grinding out at-bats, you know, two-strike counts, not losing to the pitcher on good pitches or fouling off balls and putting them in play as we feel like we needed to.”
“Probably our best offensive game of the season so far. We did a really great job early in counts and putting good swings on baseballs,” Northeastern assistant coach Mike Glavine said. “Then with two strikes we did a good job putting the ball in play and making them work, making their pitchers work and throw strikes, and then we did a really good job on the base passes today, so it was a really strong offensive uplift from one through nine and on the bases and at the plate,”
Foster’s RBI single scored Connor Lyons in the eighth, marking the final score of the game.
The team faces the College of Charleston in a triple-header this weekend. Lyons said the team should get some good practicing in and rest up before the games.
“Hopefully we’ll have a little mojo going into the weekend because we got a good team in Charleston down in South Carolina,” he said. “Hopefully we just execute the same game plan as today.”
