BALTIMORE, Md. – After scoring 13 times against Ursinus earlier in the day, Haverford College managed to better that, scoring in six different innings, on its way to 19-2 win over Franklin & Marshall in Saturday's second Centennial Conference baseball tournament elimination game.
The Fords (32-7) advance to the championship round of the tournament on Sunday, May 1 in Baltimore, Md. Haverford's opponent will be the Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins University (24-11)—who is currently 2-0 in tournament play. Haverford—2-1 in the tournament—will have to defeat Johns Hopkins, the four-time defending conference champion, twice in order to claim the title. The champion receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Regional Tournament.
The 19 runs is the highest total by the Fords in the conference tournament and second largest total in tournament history—Johns Hopkins scored 21 in a 2007 tournament game. It's the second time this season that Haverford scored 19 times in a game.
Starting pitcher Bryan Henrick was the benefactor of all the run support and picked up his school-record eighth win (8-1) of the season. He scattered eight hits in his eight innings of work. Henrick struck out three. Kyle Waney tossed a perfect ninth inning, including a pair of strikeouts.
Mike Galetta went 3-for-4 at the dish with a pair of doubles, four RBIs and scored three runs. Charlie Carluccio was 3-for-5, including a double and his fifth home run of the year, and had three RBIs and scored three times. Jeremy Zoll, Louis DeRosa and Jeff Butera added two hits each. Zoll recorded three RBIs and scored twice, Butera scored two times and had a RBI, and DeRosa scored three runs.
Haverford opened the game with a three-spot, including Carluccio's solo homer, in the first. The Fords scored twice in the second and one in the third. The Fords sent nine batters to the plate in a six-run fourth inning. In the fifth, they scored two more times. The seventh, when the Fords sent 10 men to bat, brought in the final five runs.
For the Diplomats (22-18), eight different players had a hit. Andrew Conlan had the team's lone RBI in the eighth. Franklin & Marshall's first run scored on an error.
Brendan McCreary took the loss (2-2). In his two innings, he allowed four runs on five hits.