Fords’ bats, Williams dominate Bears to stave off elimination

Posted: Apr 30, 2011

BALTIMORE, Md. – With its back against the wall, the Haverford College baseball team turned in its best all-around performance of the season with a 13-2 win over Ursinus College in a Centennial Conference tournament elimination game Saturday morning at the Johns Hopkins University Baseball Diamond.

Haverford (31-7) advances to another elimination game Saturday at 4 p.m., to face the loser of the Franklin & Marshall/Johns Hopkins contest. Ursinus wraps up 2011 with a 14-21 overall record.

Jonny Williams tossed a complete-game five-hitter to pick up his seventh win (7-2) of the season, tying Haverford's single-season record. Williams was perfect through the first five innings. He lost his perfect game bid on an error to open the sixth. Williams ended the game allowing two runs-one earned-on five hits. He struck out five and didn't walk any hitters.

Offensively, the Fords pounded out 11 hits. Matt Liscovitz led the way with a 2-for-3 effort and drove in four runs. Louis DeRosa was 2-for4 with two RBIs. Jeff Butera added two hits and Charlie Carluccio recorded two RBIs.

The Fords got out of the gates quickly scoring six times in the first three innings. Carluccio brought home Jake Chaplin, who doubled to reach base, with a sacrifice fly in the first inning. In the second, Liscovitz connected for a two-run single and DeRosa singled home Liscovitz to extend the gap to 4-0. Liscovitz had another two-RBI base hit in the third inning to make it a 6-0 affair.

DeRosa, Carluccio, Butera, Mike Galetta and Bobby Bailey each recorded RBI singles in a five-run sixth inning to open up an 11-0 lead. In the eighth, Bobby Hubley, who came into the game in the top half of the inning, hit his first home run of the season, a two-run shot to right field, for the Fords final two runs.

Ursinus scored a pair of runs in the top of the ninth inning. Rob Vogt, who went 2-for-4, had a RBI single and Ben Gresh recorded a RBI groundout.

Steve Christakos (4-6) suffered the loss. In his two innings of work, he allowed five runs on four hits and two walks.