MERION STATION, Pa. – The Saint Joseph's baseball team handed first-place Saint Louis its first conference loss of the season on Saturday, taking a first-inning lead and never looking back in a 9-1 win at Smithson Field.
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HOW IT HAPPENED
• Saint Louis (21-7 overall, 4-1 Atlantic 10) struck first; three consecutive hits to start the game, capped off by an RBI single from Patrick Clohisy.
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• The Hawks answered right away as
Conlan Wall and
Ryan Weingartner started things off with consecutive singles.Â
Ryan Cesarini then notched an RBI groundout to tie the game.
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• Two batters later,
Tim Dickinson drew a walk before
Ryan Picollo ripped an RBI double to put the Hawks on top.Â
Carter Jagiela followed with a single to score Dickinson and push the lead to 3-1.
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• Cesarini drove in another run with an infield single in the bottom of the second before a single by Dickinson in the fourth extended the Hawk margin to 5-1.
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• Saint Joseph's (11-16 overall, 2-3 Atlantic 10) hung another three-spot on the board in the sixth. An
Owen Petrich sacrifice fly made it a 6-1 game before an infield single by Dickinson and another single by Jagiela gave the Hawks an 8-1 advantage.
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• Jagiela finished off the day with a two-out single in the eighth to close out the scoring.
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BEHIND THE BOX SCORE
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Ryan DeSanto allowed a run on four hits while fanning seven in six innings to earn the win, while
Matt McShane allowed one hit and struck out six to notch a three-inning save. Jackson Yarberry took the loss for Saint Louis, allowing four runs on seven hits in an inning and two-thirds.
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• After giving up hits to the first three batters of the game, DeSanto didn't allow another hit until the fifth. McShane retired the final eight Billiken hitters of the game, including striking out the side in the ninth and fanning five of the final six hitters he faced.
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• Dickinson and Jagiela recorded three hits apiece, while Wall and Weingartner had two each. Dickinson reached base in all five of his plate appearances, scoring three runs and adding two runs batted in; Jagiela drove in three runs as well.
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UP NEXT
The teams will play the rubber game of the series on Sunday at noon.
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