THE BASICS:
 
- Records: MIT (8-14-1, 3-4 NEWMAC); Wheaton College (13-10, 4-3 NEWMAC)
 
- Scores: Game One: Wheaton College 6, MIT 1; Game Two: Wheaton College 10, MIT 9
 
- Location: Norton, Mass. (Sidell Stadium)
 
- The Lead: On Saturday afternoon, the MIT baseball team dropped a back-and-forth NEWMAC doubleheader to Wheaton College at Sidell Stadium. Game one was a 6-1 win for the Lyons, while MIT led game two by a 7-0 margin before Wheaton rallied for the eventual 10-9 win.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED IN GAME ONE:
 
- In game one, the two teams played scoreless ball for the first three innings before the Lyons opened the fourth with three straight hits to move to a 1-0 lead as Cavan Brady scored on an RBI single to left from Chris Taranto. AJ Guindon then plated Mike Maher to make it a 2-0 margin heading into the fifth in favor of Wheaton.
 
- In the fifth, Jake Studley led off with a double to right and eventually scored on a Drew Spirito sacrifice fly to right. MIT cut the lead down to 3-1 in the top of the seventh after sophomore Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) doubled down the left field line to score senior Cory O'Shea (Glen Allen, Va.) from second.
 
- Wheaton added an insurance run in the seventh on a Studley homer to center field, followed by a pair in the bottom of the eighth for the 6-1 final.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- First-year Brian Rapanan (Gurnee, Ill.) went five innings in the start for the Engineers, scattering nine hits with three runs allowed and six strikeouts and he dropped to 1-1 overall. Stephen Quigley went seven innings for Wheaton, allowing eight hits and just one run with nine strikeouts and he is now 5-2 overall for the season. Max Pierce pitched two hitless innings with two strikeouts and a walk to earn the save.
 
- Offensively for MIT, each of the top four batters in the order recorded a hit. Overall, O'Shea and junior Graham Cartwright (La Jolla, Calif.) led the way with two hits each to go along with a walk for Cartwright.
 
- Studley was the leader for Wheaton as he went 4-for-5 with two runs scored and two runs batted in.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED IN GAME TWO:
 
- In the top of the second, MIT used five hits and a Wheaton error to strike for five runs and the early 5-0 advantage. O'Shea got things started with an RBI double down the left field line, followed by a Schoenfeld three-RBI triple to left center and a sacrifice fly by junior Kyle Sonandres (Torrance, Calif.). The Engineers added to the lead in the third as O'Shea had another RBI hit to go along with a bases-loaded walk to Kyle Sonandres that scored O'Shea for the 7-0 edge.
 
- Wheaton got on the board in the bottom of the third as Zach DeMattio hit a two-run homer to right center and Brady had a sacrifice fly to right to score Anthony Teberio for the 7-3 margin. Spirito doubled to right center to score DeMattio in the fourth, followed by an RBI single by Guindon in the fifth and a two-RBI double from Nick Croteau that sent the game to the final four innings tied at 7-7.
 
- The Engineers quickly answered in the top of the sixth as first-year Malachi Soqui (Castaic, Calif.) homered for the second straight day to also score Michael Finch and put MIT back up 9-7.
 
- The back-and-forth game continued in the bottom of the seventh where the Lyons went ahead for good behind a three-hit inning. After a groundout, three straight Lyons reached base before Guindon scored on a sacrifice fly to make it a one-run margin. Teberio picked up the game-winning hit with a two-RBI single down the left field line for the 10-9 lead. The Engineers had baserunners in both the eighth and ninth innings, but were unable to send the game into extra innings.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Schoenfeld again led MIT with a two-hit performance with three runs batted in as Soqui, O'Shea and Cartwright also picked up two hits each. For Wheaton, six Lyons had two hits each as DeMattio also had three runs batted in.
 
- On the mound, junior Matt Leonard (San Antonio, Texas) took the loss in relief for the Engineers after going 3.2 inning with four hits and three runs allowed as he is now 0-4 on the year. Zach Clesas picked up the win with 1.1 innings of hitless relief for Wheaton, along with the fourth save of the year from Dom Cunha.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back in action on Tuesday, April 19th as the Engineers host WPI for a single NEWMAC game beginning at 3:30 p.m.
 
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