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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College baseball team won three out of four recent games and stood at 8-7 heading into a game at Union on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s victory over Castleton was the 200th in Coach Mike Leonard’s college coaching career.
Up next for the Panthers is a three-game home set this weekend vs. Colby, including a game at 4 p.m. on Friday and a Saturday doubleheader beginning at noon.
Back on March 30 the Panthers knocked out four homers, two by John Collins, in a 13-3 victory over host RPI, which fell to 7-9.
RPI took an early 2-1 lead despite Collins’s first homer, but Middlebury took charge with six runs in the fourth on a Sammy Smith two-run homer, a Beau Root two-run double and a Kyle McCausland two-run single.
Middlebury added five more in the fifth. Collins launched a two-run shot, and Lucas Flemming connected on a three-run homer to make it 12-2. Smith later in the game added an RBI single.
Mitchell Schroeder finished with two hits, a walk and two runs scored. Seven Panthers took the mound, and Henry Gustavson earned the win with a perfect inning.
On Saturday the Panthers split a doubleheader with host Hamilton, winning the opener, 11-5, before falling in the nightcap, 4-2. The teams were unable to play the third game of the league-opening NESCAC-West series either on Friday or Sunday. Hamilton is 9-8.
The Panthers took charge in the opener early. Collins drilled a three-run shot in the first, and they added two runs in the second on a Flemming triple and doubles by Sawyer Duarte and Schroeder.
In the fourth Middlebury made it 9-2 with four more runs. McCausland homered to drive in Collins, who walked, and Flemming homered after a Zip Malley double. A Smith triple and an Andrew Ashley grounder made it 10-2 in the fifth, and Collins doubled and scored on a McCausland sac fly in the seventh.
Alec Ritch earned the complete-game victory, allowing five runs (four earned) on eight hits with four strikeouts.
The Panther bats were quieter in game two. The Continentals took a 2-0 lead after five innings before Middlebury rallied to tie the game in the sixth on a Smith leadoff homer, followed by a Jack Stolper double to right, his stolen base and a Malley sac fly. But Hamilton responded with two runs in the seventh for the win.
Alex Price (1-2) took the loss, giving up four runs on six hits and striking out 11 in 6.1 innings. George Goldstein went the final 1.2 innings for Middlebury, fanning five.
On Tuesday the Panthers defeated Castleton, 6-2, in their home opener. The Spartans dropped to 5-11-1.
Singles by Ritch and Schroeder gave the Panthers a run in the first, and that pair each doubled to add another run in the third. An Ashley homer made it 3-1 in fourth.
Evan Keegan scored in the sixth, his second run of the game, to make it 3-2. After Keegan’s second of three hits on the day, Addison Schaab singled him home for second RBI.
Root singled in Malley in the bottom of the sixth, and the Panthers added two insurance runs in the eighth on a Chris Borter RBI double and Ritch’s RBI single.
Alex Rosario (3-1) earned the win, striking out three over 5.1 innings. Gustavson tossed two scoreless innings, striking out five, and Goldstein struck out the final two batters.
Stephen Coffey took the loss, allowing four runs on 10 hits over the opening six innings.
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