THE BASICS:
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- Records: MIT (2-7-1); Pomona-Pitzer (16-3)
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- Scores: Pomona-Pitzer 6, MIT 3
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- Location: Claremont, Calif. (Alumni Field)
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- The Lead: In the final game of the three-game series, MIT rallied from an early deficit to tie the game at 3-3 before dropping an eventual 6-3 final to Pomona-Pitzer on Sunday afternoon at Alumni Field.
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HOW IT HAPPENED:
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- The Sagehens got out to a 3-0 lead after three innings with single runs in each frame, including a solo home run by
David Bedrosian in the third.
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- MIT got two runs back in the top of the fourth behind three hits, including a two-RBI single up the middle from sophomore
Kennan Gumbs (New York, N.Y.) that scored junior
Graham Cartwright (La Jolla, Calif.) and senior
Nick Aiello (Freehold, N.J.) to make it a 3-2 game. The Engineers tied the game at 3-3 in the fifth when sophomore
Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) came across as he reached on a leadoff double through the left side.
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- Pomona-Pitzer regained the lead on a balk in the fifth and added two more runs in the eighth for the 6-3 final. Leading the hosts in that inning was
Isaac Kim with a solo homer to center and an RBI single to right by
Caleb Millikan that scored
Ryan Nishi from second.
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INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
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- Sophomore
Tyler Godfrey (Rowley, Mass.) led the Engineers with a 2-for-3 performance at the plate, while three Sagehens finished with two hits each.
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- MIT senior
Jonah Scott (Oak Park, Ill.) went 3.1 innings in the start and scattered five hits with three runs in the no-decision. Junior
Matthew Nay (Roswell, Ga.) took the loss to fall to 0-1, while
Jake Hilton moved to 2-0 with the win for Pomona-Pitzer and
Eamonn Woods earned his third save of the year.
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UP NEXT:
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- MIT returns to action on Tuesday, March 22nd as the Engineers travel to No. 21 Chapman University for a 7 p.m. start in Orange, Calif.
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