Swat Thumps Baptist Bible, Move Sunday Twinbill to Campus
GEORGETOWN, Del. -- Freshmen Spencer Ross and Michael Cameron launched home runs as the Swarthmore baseball team ended a two-game slide with a 21-3 shellacking of Baptist Bible Saturday afternoon at the Sports at the Beach Complex near Rehoboth Beach.
The road-weary Garnet (4-5) found themselves on a bus to Delaware early Saturday morning after taking a flight from Arizona on Friday night that did not touch down in Philadelphia until nearly 2:00 a.m. Swarthmore had spent the previous week in the southwest on spring break, playing six games against Wesleyan and Pitt-Bradford amongst the cacti.
Swarthmore’s youth and inexperience may have played a factor in the team’s ability to provide the juice with limited rest. It is the second home run in the short career of Ross (Chappaqua, N.Y. - Horace Greeley), the team’s third baseman (he tattooed a four-bagger in a 10-9 loss to Wesleyan on March 8). For the perennially tan Cameron (Calabasas, Calif. / Viewpoint School), it was the first time in his young college career that he could display a home-run trot.
Swarthmore’s four taters in 2009 (New Jersey-native Anthony Montalbano ’12 yanked his first home run out of the park on March 12) already surpasses the home run totals from each of the previous four seasons (the 2004 Garnet squad accounted for six clouts).
Garnet first-year hurler Kyle Crawford (Mississuga, Ontario, Canada / Cawthra Park School) picked up the victory—after first of his collegiate career—with six innings of work.
Swarthmore was to remain in Delaware overnight for a doubleheader with SUNY-IT on Sunday afternoon, but heavy rains has moved the location to Clothier Fields on the campus of Swarthmore College. First pitch is slated for 12:00 p.m. The Garnet are slated to play at Neumann College on Tuesday, March 17 at 3:00 p.m. before returning to Clothier Fields the next day for a 3:30 p.m. tilt with the DeSales Bulldogs
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