THE BASICS:
 
- Records: MIT (8-10, 3-2); Clark University (13-10. 4-1 NEWMAC)
 
- Scores: Game One: Clark University 8, MIT 5; Game Two: Clark University 7, MIT 5
 
- Location: Cambridge, Mass. (Fran O'Brien Field)
 
- The Lead: In the first home NEWMAC doubleheader of the season, the MIT baseball team dropped a pair of games to visiting Clark University by final scores of 8-5 and 7-5 on Saturday afternoon.
 
Game One
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- The Cougars staked to a 4-0 lead with two outs in the first when CJ Johnson hit a grand slam to left for the early advantage. Billy Sullivan scored on a passed ball in the second to push to a 5-0 lead before MIT answered with two runs in the bottom of the inning. In that half of the inning, the Engineers used an RBI single to center from sophomore Reed Tubbs (Pflugerville, Texas) and an RBI single up the middle from junior Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) to pull within three runs.
 
- In the third, senior Jake Sonandres (Torrance, Calif.) was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and then came around all the way from first on an RBI double to left by senior Graham Cartwright (La Jolla, Calif.). Schoenfeld and MIT tied the game up at 5-5 in the fourth when his RBI triple to left center scored Tubbs and Schoenfeld then came home on a wild pitch later in the inning.
 
- The Cougars scored single runs in the fifth, seventh and ninth innings to regain the lead as the final run came on a Carter Doran home run down the left field line in the ninth.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Schoenfeld went 2-for-5 with two runs batted in from the leadoff spot, while Cartwright had two hits and Tubbs finished 2-for-4 with two runs scored. Samuel Farrell was 2-for-4 with three runs scored, along with 2-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI from Doran in the cleanup spot.
 
- Junior Karl Meyer (Indianapolis, Ind.) took the loss for the Engineers to fall to 2-1 as he went five innings with six hits and six runs allowed to go along with seven strikeouts. Max Moss is now 1-0 for Clark as he threw 5.2 innings of two-hit, scoreless relief with four strikeouts.
 
Game Two
HOW IT HAPPENED:
 
- In game two, Brayden Hollinrake's single to second brought in Farrell and Ryan Caulfield for the 2-0 Clark lead after the first. The Engineers tied things up in the bottom of the second though when junior Kennan Gumbs (New York, N.Y.) scored on a wild pitch and first-year Zev Moore (Jerusalem, Israel) came in on a sacrifice fly to left by first-year Owen Malone (Portsmouth, R.I.).
 
- The Cougars pushed across a single run in the fifth on a wild pitch, followed by a two-RBI single to right from Hollinrake in the seventh that made it a 5-2 game. Schoenfeld's single with out in the seventh scored Zev Moore and the game headed to the eighth at 5-3 as MIT had loaded the bases in the inning with one out.
 
- Doran launched a two-run homer to left with one out in the ninth that scored Farrell for the 7-3 run before MIT answered with a pair in the ninth. Malone led off the inning with a home run to left and Schoenfeld scored on a wild pitch with two outs. Clark's Michael Carterud struck out the final batter though to preserve the back-and-forth win in the 7-5 final.
 
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
 
- Zev Moore was 2-for-4 with two runs scored for MIT, while Hollinrake paced the Cougars as he was 2-for-4 with four runs batted in in game two.
 
- Sophomore Ajinkya Gundaria (Alpharetta, Ga.) fell to 0-1 on the mound for MIT with three runs allowed with five hits and three strikeouts over four innings of relief. Maxwell Gitlin picked up the win for Clark, going seven innings with six hits, three runs allowed, four walks and six strikeouts. Carterud recorded his first save of the year as he quickly recorded the final two outs in the ninth.
 
UP NEXT:
 
- MIT is back in action on Tuesday, April 11th as the Engineers travel to Springfield College for a NEWMAC matchup beginning at 3:30 p.m.
 
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