WEST HAVEN, Conn. – Homeruns by
Jake Gehri and
Teddy Hague provided sparks for the Yale baseball team on Sunday afternoon at George H.W. Bush '48 Field, but the Bulldogs ultimately could not overcome an early deficit. Dartmouth scored five times in the first and eventually came away with an 11-4 victory in the final game of the teams' three-game weekend series.
Dartmouth (12-13, 5-4 Ivy League) bounced back after being shut down by Yale righthander
Grant Kipp (a complete game three-hitter) in a 5-1 Bulldog victory in game two of the series Saturday afternoon. On Sunday the Big Green bats awoke quickly, as six hits and five runs in the top of the first staked Dartmouth starter Justin Murray to an early lead.
Yale (14-10, 5-4 Ivy League) crept closer on an RBI double by
Ben Metzner in the fourth. But Dartmouth answered by scoring in each of the next four innings. Gehri's solo homerun in the sixth pulled Yale within 8-2, and Hague's two-run blast in the eighth made it 11-4, but Yale would get no closer.
Lefthander
Reid Easterly gave the Bulldogs four innings of solid relief, allowing just two hits and one run while striking out three. Murray went 7.2 innings for Dartmouth, allowing four earned runs, before righthander Cole Roland came on to get the final four outs.
The Bulldogs continue Ivy League play next weekend, hosting Brown for a three-game series.
