From Brandeis University Athletics

The Brandeis University baseball team matched their longest winning streak in 13 years today as the Judges defeated visiting Roger Williams University, 8-4, for their seventh win in a row. The Judges get back to .500 at 15-15-1, while the Hawks fall to 11-16-1.

STREAKING JUDGES

• The last seven-game winning streak for Brandeis was April 24 through May 10, 2003, and included the team's last ECAC Division III New England championship.
• The Judges' 15 wins are their highest total since 2013.
• Brandeis improved to 7-1 on Stein Diamond under head coach Derek Carlson '91.
• This was the first game for Carlson coaching against Roger Williams, where he was the skipper from 2003 through 2015.

BRANDEIS' BIG SECOND INNING

• For the second-straight game, Brandeis used a big inning, sending 12 men to the plate in the second and scoring seven of their eight runs.
• The Judges had seven hits in the frame, while RWU committed two costly errors.
• The first four Brandeis hitters reached safely on hits, with seniors Ryan Healy (Carlsbad, Calif./La Costa Canyon) and Connor Doyle (Avon, Conn./Avon Old Farms) each doubling.
• Doyle's two-bagger drove in Healy with the first run of the game, while a Rob Trenk (West Orange, N.J./West Orange) single, a Max Hart (Montville, Conn./Montville) groundout and an error off the bat of Jay Schaff (Cheshire, Conn./Xavier) made it 4-0.
• After a Liam O'Connor (Avon, Conn./Avon) single, Schaff scored what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch.
• Rookie Benjamin Bavly (Newton, Mass./Newton South) plated a run with a single up the middle.
• After Healy singled to third for his second hit of the inning, a dropped pop-up hit by sophomore Luke Zeccola (Garden City, N.Y./Chaminade) allowed Bavly to score from second.
• The Judges tacked on a run in the bottom of the eighth on a long home run to left field by junior Ryan Tettemer (Westfield, Mass./Suffield Acad.).

PITCHING PROWESS

• Brandeis starter Liam Coughlin (Townsend, Mass./Lowell Catholic) went 7.2 innings and allowed four runs – three earned – on just four hits to improve to 3-1 on the season.
• He struck out three and walked one.
• It was a career-long outing for Coughlin and marked the second time this season he allowed four or fewer hits in an outing of at least six innings.
• After Coughlin hit a batter, saw a run score on an error, and issued a walk in the eighth, he was pulled in favor of Healy.
• Healy earned his fourth save of the season by striking out a batter to end the eighth and working around a one-out single in the ninth.
• His four saves are the most in a season by a Brandeis pitcher since 2011.
• RWU's Sam Bennett (Andover, Mass./Andover) was effective in relief, allowing six hits and just one earned run in 6.2 innings of work.
• Bennett retired 15 out of 16 Brandeis hitters between the third and seventh innings.

ROGER WILLIAMS TIMELY HITS

• Roger Williams scored a single run in the third inning on a one-out triple by shortstop Kevin Baker (Wilbraham, Mass./Minnechaug Regional) and groundout by catcher Chris Bosco (No. Andover, Mass./No. Andover).
• Bosco and Baker hit back-to-back doubles in the sixth to plate the team's second run, while a Shawn Cariglio infield grounder two batters later scored Baker.
• Bosco scored his third run of the game in the eighth after getting hit by a pitch.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Eight of nine Brandeis starters had hits, led by Schaff's 3-4 performance, marking his second-straight three-hit game.
• Healy was the team's only other multiple hitter, going 2-4 with a run and a double.
• Healy's double was his 17^th of the season, most by a Brandeis player since 2011, and moving him into a four-way tie for sixth on the career single-season list.
• With today's double, Healy is two behind the school single-season record of 19, held by four players, most recently Zach Golden '05 in 2005.
• Bosco led the RWU attack, going 2-3 with a double and triple and scoring three of the team's four runs.