HAVERFORD, Pa. – Jeremy Zoll snuck a seeing-eye single through the left side to drive home William Bannard in the bottom of the 11th inning to allow Haverford College's baseball team to earn an important Centennial Conference sweep of visiting Dickinson College on Saturday at Kannerstein Field. The Fords rolled to a 12-4 Game 1 win before closing out the day with a 7-6 extra-inning victory over the Red Devils in the nightcap.
The Fords improve to 3-1 in the league and even their overall record at 11-11 with Saturday's pair of wins. Dickinson slips to 12-8 overall and 2-2 within the conference.
Game 2 was a pitchers duel through the first six innings as the Fords' Kyle Waney went toe-to-toe with Dickinson's Sean White.
After the Red Devils scrapped for one run in the fourth and then another in the fifth inning off Waney, Haverford was able to inflict some damage to White's strong outing with two runs in the bottom of the fifth. Casey Fox scored the initial run on Bannard's sacrifice fly to right and Mike Tentilucci scored the tying run on a Nick Miranda single.
Haverford forged a 6-4 lead heading into the top of the ninth but Dickinson prolonged the outcome with a pair of runs generated from a double, two singles and a sacrifice fly.
Bannard rapped a one-out single up the middle in the 11th then stole second after Miranda's fly-out. Zee Crawford, who'd taken over on the mound for White to start the 10th, intentionally walked Jake Chaplin in hopes of picking up the third out with a force-out an any bag. With the infield drawn in and the runners moving on contact, Justin Coulter's hard grounder toward third was knocked down by Dickinson's Matt Tuneski but Coulter reached safely to load the bases.
Zoll grounded a Crawford pitch deep into the hole on the left side where the shortstop had no play at any bag with all runners again moving on the two-out contact, allowing Bannard's winning run to cross the plate.
Crawford (0-2) took the loss while Kevin Goff (2-0) picked up the win with two innings of relief during which he allowed one base runner while fanning two. Waney threw 6.2 innings in a no decision, surrendering four runs, one unearned, off six hits and two walks and five strikeouts.
A five-run third inning gave Haverford all the runs it would need in the Game 1 victory.
Alex Hudak's three-run home run to right-center field was the big knock in the inning.
Bobby Hubley provided the lumber in a four-run fifth inning by the Fords as the catcher pushed one over the right-field fence for a three-run homer that made the score 9-2 in favor of the home team. Zoll added to his two-hit game with a home run in the eighth that also brought home Marley Randazzo.
The 12-run Game 1 outing continued a strong streak from the Fords who had scored nine runs in each of their previous two games, both wins.
Bryan Henrick (1-4) picked up the win for Haverford in the opener throwing into the seventh inning before giving way to Max Gerard who finished for Henrick. The pair combined to allow four runs off six Dickinson hits and five walks. Henrick struck out six while Gerard fanned three in his 2.1 innings of work. Dickinson starter Harley Moore (1-2) took the loss.
Zoll finished the day with five hits, scored two runs and tallied six RBIs to lead Haverford at the plate. Jake Chaplin collected four hits, two runs and an RBI while Fox scored four runs after getting on base seven times -- four by walks along with three hits.
Haverford opens the upcoming week with another conference outing, welcoming Muhlenberg College to Kannerstein Field for a single game at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3.