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Joey Severson throwing a baseball
Aiden Shertzer
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Winner Vermont State Castleton VERMONT 3-4
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MIT MIT 0-2
Winner
Vermont State Castleton VERMONT
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Final
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MIT MIT
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Vermont State Castleton VERMONT 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 2 0 6 2 2
MIT MIT 0 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 3 8 0

W: P. Hallett (2-0) L: Murray, Julian (0-1) S: N. Lescarbea (1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Falls to Vermont State Castleton in Florida Finale, 6-3

WINTER HAVEN, Fla. — Sophomore John Spivey recorded a pair of hits and an RBI while first year Dalton Chi went 3-for-4 with a run scored but the MIT baseball team dropped a 6-3 final to Vermont State Castleton on Sunday morning in its third and final game of a weekend trip to Florida.

THE BASICS:

  • Score: Castleton 6, MIT 3
  • Records: MIT 0-3 Overall, St. Olaf 3-0 overall

HOW IT HAPPENED: 

  • Castleton starter Patrick Hallett pitched six innings, working around seven hits while striking out eight and giving up only one earned run to lead the Spartans to the victory.
  • Hallett got some early run support, as Castleton scored a run on a wild pitch in the top of the second and a Carter Dickinson fielder's choice RBI in the top of the third to take a 2-0 lead.
  • The Engineers got one run back in the bottom of the third thanks to a Joey Severson sacrifice fly that scored Spivey from third. Spivey manufactured the run for MIT, opening the inning with a single before stealing both second and third and scoring on the sacrifice fly.
  • Following a scoreless fourth inning, both teams scored a run in the fifth. Castleton scored on a wild pitch before MIT got a run on an error to send the game to the sixth with Castleton leading, 3-2.
  • The Spartans picked up another run in the top of the sixth, scoring on a wild pitch. Hallett then finished up his final inning of work with a 1-2-3 effort to send the game into the seventh with Castleton leading, 4-2.
  • With Hallett out of the game, the MIT bats added another run in the bottom of the seventh. Chi walked to lead off the inning before moving to second on a sacrifice bunt. He advanced to third on a wild pitch and came across to score on a sacrifice fly from Spivey to pull MIT within one, 4-3.
  • MIT first year Will Steen Koppell got the first two outs in the top of the eighth, but Castleton would ultimately put the game out of reach with a two-run, two-out rally that included an RBI single from Jack Humbach and an RBI double off the bat of Joe Castellano that would make the score 6-3.
  • Chi tallied his third hit in the bottom of the ninth, hitting a single to center before stealing second, but MIT could not find a way to bring him, dropping a 6-3 final.

INSIDE THE NUMBERS:

  • Chi is off to a hot start to his collegiate career, tallying five hits in ten at-bats across his opening three games. With his walk in the seventh, he reached base four times in all on Sunday.
  • Severson also doubled in the top of the fifth, it was his first career extra base hit.
  • MIT used five pitchers in the contest. Starter Matthew Spenner left after an inning, walking one and striking out one in his season debut.

UP NEXT:

  • MIT will travel to UMass Boston on Tuesday for a 3:00 PM non-conference contest.

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