THE BASICS:
 
- Records: MIT (7-14-1); Endicott College (19-5)
 
- Scores: Endicott College 10, MIT 4
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Fran O'Brien Field)
 
- The Lead: In the second meeting between the two teams this season, the MIT baseball team dropped a 10-4 home final to visiting Endicott College on Wednesday afternoon as the teams split the season series.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- After a scoreless first, the Gulls struck first with a pair of runs to jump to the 2-0 advantage in the top of the second. After senior Nick Aiello (Freehold, N.J.) reached on a leadoff single to left in the second, he eventually scored on a two-out balk to slice the lead in half at 2-1.
 
- MIT starting pitcher Matt Leonard (San Antonio, Texas) was excellent for the Engineers and kept the game at a 2-1 margin through his five innings of work before giving way to the bullpen in the top of the sixth. The Gulls put together a solid inning with six runs on four hits and took advantage of a pair of errors to extend the lead. Caleb Shpur picked up two RBI with a single to left and that was followed by a three-run homer to left by Nicolas Notarangelo to make it an 8-1 game.
 
- The Engineers cut into the lead with two runs in the eighth on a two-RBI triple to right from sophomore Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) that plated Reed Tubbs and senior Cory O'Shea (Glen Allen, Va.) for the 8-3 deficit.
 
- After an MIT unearned run in the bottom of the eighth, Robbie Wladkowski had a two-run homer for the Gulls in the ninth to account for the 10-4 final.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Schoenfeld finished with the game 3-for-5 with two RBI as that marked his 13th multi-hit game of the year and his 14th straight game reaching base. Shpur paced the Gulls with a 3-for-4 game with three RBI as Kyle Grabowski also registered two hits.
 
- Leonard scattered four hits over five innings with five strikeouts as he dropped to 0-3 overall on the season. For Endicott, Chris Jenkins threw four innings of three-hit relief and is now 1-0 on the year.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back in action on Friday, April 15th as the Engineers host Wheaton College in the first game of a three-game series. That contest will begin at 3:30 p.m. at Fran O'Brien Field.
 
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