From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis University baseball team sent 13 men to the plate in the fifth inning, scoring a season-high nine runs in the frame, as the Judges defeated Eastern Connecticut State University, 16-6, in a non-conference matchup on Stein Diamond. The win is the Judges' sixth in a row and improves them to 14-15-1 on the season. The loss drops ECSU to 14-10.

STREAKING JUDGES

• Brandeis's win streak is their longest since 2003, when they won seven in a row.
• The 14 win plateau surpasses the squad's win total from each of the past two seasons.
• The Judges improved to 6-1 on Stein Diamond under head coach Derek Carlson '91.
• This was the first meeting between Brandeis and ECSU since 2003.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Each team scored a run in the first inning – ECSU on an errant throw on a steal of second with runners on the corners that allowed Chad Adams (Ware, Mass./Willston Northampton) to score from third, Brandeis on a Greg Heineman (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) sacrifice fly.
• The Warriors went ahead in the top of the third on an Alex Zachary (Enfield, Conn./Enrico Fermi) home run to dead center field. It was his team-leading fifth of the season.
• Heineman tied the game up with an RBI double in the bottom of the frame, while Ryan Healy (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) gave Brandeis the lead for good with a sac fly of his own.
• The Judges went up 4-2 in the fourth, when senior Max Hart (Montville, Conn./Montville) tripled with two out and scored on a Jay Schaff (Cheshire, Conn./Xavier) single.
• The game broke wide open in the fifth, as the first six Judges singled, producing three runs.
• After Eastern Conn. got a strikeout with the bases loaded for the first out of the inning, Schaff bounced one through the left side of the infield to drive in two more.
• After the ninth batter of the inning, senior Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon), singled to load the bases again, rookie Ben Bavly (Newton, Mass./Newton South) drilled his team-leading third home run of the season to right field for a grand slam.
• Zachary drove in two more runs for ECSU in the sixth inning with a two-out single.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE - BRANDEIS

• All nine starters had hits for the Judges, with six producing multiple hits.
• O'Connor led the way with four hits and three runs scored. It was his second four-hit game in the last three contests and third overall this season.
• Bavly's grand slam was part of 3-4 day with two runs scored and game-high four RBI.
• He has had three hits in five of the last seven games, hitting .515 over that span (17-33) with two doubles, a triple and two homers, driving in 10 runs.
• Schaff had three hits and three RBI, both career bests.
• Heineman (3-4, 2 RBI, 2B) and grad student DH Rob Trenk (West Orange, N.J./West Orange) (2-5, 2 RBI, 2 R) also had multiple RBI performances.
• Rookie Daniel Schupper (Villanova, Pa./Harriton) earned his first collegiate victory with four strong innings of relief, allowing six hits and two unearned runs.
• He got out of a couple of bases-loaded jams thanks to double plays, one on a line drive that was knocked down to keep it a two-run game in the fifth after he entered the game, another on a comeback to the mound for a 1-2-3 twin-killing in the eighth.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE - ECSU

• The Warriors had 15 hits of their own, from 11 different players.
• Zachary was the hitting star for the visitors, going 2-3 with 3 RBI, a run scored and a home run.
• Leadoff hitter Pat Sirois (Cromwell, Conn./Cromwell) also had three hits for the visitors.
• Junior starter Ron Buchetto (Clinton, Conn./Morgan School) took the loss, giving up nine hits and six earned runs over four-plus innings. He falls to 2-1 on the season.