THE BASICS:
 
- Score:
Game 1: MIT - 4, Clark - 1
Game 2: MIT - 11, Clark - 8

- Records: MIT (17-18, 7-9 NEWMAC), Clark (21-18, 5-11 NEWMAC)

- Location: Worcester, Mass. (Granger Field)

- The Lead: The MIT baseball team swept a road doubleheader against Clark to earn the sixth seed in this week's NEWMAC Tournament.

HOW IT HAPPENED GAME ONE

- Senior Michael Finch (Brentwood, Tenn.) hit a solo homer in the fourth to give MIT the lead, but Clark tied the game in the fifth.
 
- Graduate student Kyle Sonandres (Torrance, Calif.) doubled to center to give the Engineers a 2-1 lead, and junior Malachi Soqui (Castaic, Calif.) doubled home two more runs to make it a 4-1 game.
 
- Clark got two runners on in the bottom of the ninth, but they were left stranded as the Engineers took game one.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Senior Karl Meyer (Indianapolis, Ind.) went the first five innings and allowed just one run on two hits with two walks and four strikeouts. Graduate student Ben Burke (Chelmsford, Mass.) got his fourth win with two perfect innings with two Ks. Junior Brian Rapanan (Gurnee, Ill.) closed out the game for his third save as he allowed just one hit.
 
- Senior Tyler Godfrey (Rowley, Mass.) led the way for MIT with three hits in the game. Sonandres and senior Teddy Schoenfeld (Boulder, Colo.) recorded two hits each.
 
HOW IT HAPPENED GAME TWO

- MIT got RBI hits from Sonandres, Finch, and Godfrey to go up 3-0 in the first. Clark scored three straight to tie the game going into the fifth inning.
 
- Sonandres tripled home two runs in the fifth, and Owen Malone (Portsmouth, R.I.) homered in the sixth to make it a 5-3 MIT lead. Sonandres singled home two more runs in the sixth to put the Engineers up five.
 
- The Cougars mounted a comeback, scoring five unanswered runs to tie the game at eight heading into the ninth inning.
 
- Schoenfeld doubled home two runs with one out to give MIT a 10-8 lead, and Sonandres added an insurance run with a double to plate Schoenfeld and give the Engineers an 11-8 advantage. Junior Reed Tubbs (Pflugerville, Texas) retired Clark in order in the bottom of the frame to seal the win.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

- Tubbs notched his first win on the year with two innings of one-hit ball.
 
- Sonandres went 4-5 with six RBI in the game. The four hits tie his career-high while the six RBI are a career-best. Combined in both games he collected six hits and seven RBI.
 
- Schoenfeld, Soqui, and sophomore Eitan Moore (Jerusalem, Israel) recorded two hits apiece in the game.
 
UP NEXT:

-  MIT will wrap up the regular season with a road contest against No. 1 Endicott tomorrow, Sunday, May 5th at 12:00 p.m.    
 
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