Baseball Splits With Springfield, Boasts Third Consecutive NEWMAC West Division Title

WPI News Archive


Apr 22, 2017





Springfield, MA --- The WPI Baseball team split a pair of games with Springfield Saturday and secured the NEWMAC West division title for the third consecutive season. The Pride earned a 4-3 win over WPI before falling to the Engineers, 11-4, in the second leg of the doubleheader at Berry-Allen Field.
With the split, Springfield College is now 15-12 overall and, 8-7 in NEWMAC play, while the Engineers are 24-10 on the year with a record of 11-6 against conference opponents.
The Engineers are in the NEWMAC clubhouse while the other seven teams are in action tomorrow. As a result of the division crown, WPI is guaranteed at least the No. 2 seed and, pending tomorrow's three-game set between Wheaton and MIT, could claim the top seed.
The Pride will conclude its NEWMAC regular season slate on Sunday when it hosts Babson for a doubleheader beginning at 12pm.
Springfield struck early as Chad Shade (Pittsfield, MA) led off the bottom of the first by blistering a triple to right field and came around to score one batter later for the game's, and the day's, first run.
The hosts would push its lead to 4-0 after a three-run fifth inning.  After Patrick Coan (Pawcautuck, CT) earned a leadoff walk, Shade put runners on second and third with a towering double to right field.   Mark Joao (Wappingers Falls, NY) would later deliver for the Pride with two outs when he ripped a two-run double down the right field line.  Following a wild pitch and walk to Brandon Drabinski (Lisbon, CT) to put runners on the corners, Mike Jamieson (New Fairfield, CT) cracked a run-scoring single  to give the host a four-run cushion.
The Engineers got a run back in the top of the sixth.  Ryan Tropeano (Pembroke, MA) beat out an infield single, and after stealing second, benefited from a perfectly executed ...

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