THE BASICS:
 
- Location: Danvers, Mass. (Pete Frates Diamond)
 
- Records: MIT (14-18, 9-8 NEWMAC); Emerson College (17-21, 5-12 NEWMAC)
 
- Scores: Game One: MIT 9, Emerson College 8; Game Two: Emerson College 8, MIT 6
 
- The Lead: In the final NEWMAC doubleheader of the regular season, the MIT baseball team split a pair of road games with Emerson College on Saturday afternoon. The Engineers defeated the Lions by a 9-8 final in game one before dropping the second by an 8-6 score.
 
Game One
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- The two teams traded runs over the first four innings of play before the Engineers went in front for the first time at 3-2 when first-year Owen Malone (Portsmouth, R.I.) scored on an RBI single to right by sophomore Reed Tubbs (Pflugerville, Texas). MIT added two more to the lead in the fifth on runs by Tubbs and junior Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) to stretch the margin out to 5-2. Jake Hatch, who homered in the first inning to start the scoring, launched a solo shot to center in the bottom of the fifth to cut the MIT lead to 5-3.
 
- The sixth inning turned out to be the highest-scoring one of the game as MIT increased its lead to 8-3 behind three hits and a run scoring on a wild pitch. The Lions answered in a big way with two outs in the bottom of the sixth when Quinton Copeland tied the game at 8-8 on a three-run homer to left.
 
- MIT went back in front in the top of the eighth as junior Tyler Godfrey (Rowley, Mass.) came around to score on a sacrifice fly to center by senior Graham Cartwright (La Jolla, Calif.) after Godfrey reached on a leadoff walk.
 
- For the second straight day, sophomore Ethan Siegel (Austin, Texas) came on for the save as he allowed one hit and struck out the side in the ninth to secure the one-run win and his fourth save of the season.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Four Engineers registered multiple hits for the game, including a 3-for-5 performance by Tubbs as he also scored twice and drove in a run. For the Lions, Hatch paced their offense with a 3-for-4 performance as he scored three runs and drove in three.
 
- Sophomore Jimmy Moore (Los Gatos, Calif.) earned the win for the Engineers, going two perfect innings of relief with four strikeouts as he is now 1-1 overall. Joshua Caltabiano dropped to 0-1 as he allowed three hits and one run over the final two innings of play.
 
Game Two
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- MIT jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead in the first behind six hits, led by a double to left center from Cartwright. The Engineers chased Emerson starter Josh Caltabiano with two outs in the inning and headed into the bottom of the first with the lead. Emerson quickly answered with two runs as Hatch added his third home run of the day, with this being a two-run shot to left center to make it 4-2 after one.
 
- The Engineers kept up the offensive pressure and scored twice more in the second as senior Kyle Sonandres (Torrance, Calif.) tripled to right center to drive in a run, followed by an RBI groundout from Cartwright.
 
- The game stayed that way at 6-2 until the bottom of the sixth when Matt Nachamie struck with the long ball in the form of a two-run home run to left that cut the margin to 6-4. Ty Bourne scored on a two-out wild pitch in the seventh to close within one, followed by a three-run homer to left center by Nachamie for the eventual game-winning runs and the 8-6 final score.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Tubbs and Cartwright each had three hits as the top four hitters in the lineup total nine hits, six runs scored and four runs batted in. Nachamie led the Emerson offense with a 4-for-4 showing with two runs scored and five runs batted in.
 
- After six innings pitched by MIT first-year starter Kent Goodman (Tiburon, Calif.), senior Matthew Nay (Roswell, Ga.) came on in relief and fell to 0-1 on the season in one inning. Hatch was the winning pitcher for the Lions, moving to 1-0 as Copeland earned his third save.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back in action on Tuesday, May 2nd as the Engineers host Endicott College in the regular-season finale at 3:30 p.m. at Fran O'Brien Field.
 
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