Five Homers Power No. 3/3 Baseball Past MIT, 14-3 (8 Inn.)

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The No. 3/3 nationally ranked Endicott baseball team powered its way past MIT, 14-3, in Wednesday afternoon's non-conference matchup at Fran O'Brien Field.

WP (4-0): Ben Gill (Sanford, Maine) — 2.1 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 1 BB, 1 K
LP (0-1): Jonathan Berger (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) — 1 IP, 2 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 0 K

The Gulls jumped out in front thanks to a first-inning solo shot from Danny MacDougall (Taunton, Mass.). 

After the Engineers snagged the lead with a pair of unearned runs in the bottom of the first, the Gulls evened things up in the second with a TJ Liponis (Scarborough, Maine) sac fly, and then took the lead in the third off of a Joey Frammartino (North Reading, Mass.) two-run round tripper to right.

In the fourth, the Gulls tacked on another three. Included in the three-run frame was MacDougall's second bomb of the game, a two-run shot that carried well over the left-center field fence.

They added another three runs on a Robbie Wladkowski (Norwood, Mass.) two-run single and a Zach Stephenson (Mansfield, Mass.) RBI double in the fifth, pulling ahead comfortably on the road (10-2). 

Then, in the seventh, Liponis hit the Gulls' fourth homer of the day, a two-run blast to straightaway left field to put the Gulls ahead 12-3.

Wladkowski extended on his big day in the top of the eighth, as he joined in on the home run parade with a two-run lighttower blast over the left field wall to make it 14-3.

Playing their fifth game in four days, it was an all-hands-on-deck pitching situation for the Blue and Green. Colby Correia (Fairhaven, Mass.), Brandon McSorley (Melrose, Mass.), Gill, Kyan Bagshaw (Amherst, N.H.), and Derek Roberts (Wayland, Mass.) combined to limit the Engineers' offense to just three runs on six hits.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE

• The Gulls advance to 20-6 in the all-time series with the Engineers.
• Wladkowski's blast was his 25th career homer, which moves him into sole possession of second place all-time in the Endicott career home run chase.
• He also went a career-best 5-for-5 at the plate today-- which ties an Endicott program single-game high. He fell just a triple shy of the cycle (two doubles, two singles, homer) while collecting four RBI's and four runs scored.
• MacDougall's two homers were the 20th and 21st of his career, which places him T-6th all-time in program history. He also becomes the first Gull ever with four multi-homer games in his career.
• Additionally, MacDougall tied the career stolen bases record with his theft (98).
• Frammartino's homer was the 10th of his career, while Liponis' was his 14th.
• John Mulready (Peabody, Mass.) collected a three-hit day, the last of which was the 200th of his career. He is the sixth Gull ever to reach the 200-hit plateau.

WHAT'S NEXT

No. 3/3 Endicott (32-4) welcomes Wentworth to North Field for the final Conference of New England (CNE) matchup of the season in a Saturday doubleheader (12/3 PM). MIT (15-17) hosts Clark in a doubleheader on Saturday (12/3 PM). 

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