CHANDLER, AZ. — The Williams College baseball team was beaten at its own game Wednesday when Hamline University rallied for single runs in the bottom of the ninth and 10th inning to post a 5-4 win over the Ephs.
Williams fell to 8-7 overall. The Ephs are scheduled to play their final game of the trip tomorrow at 11 a.m., MST, against Oberlin College, weather permitted.
The Ephs took a 2-0 lead in the top of the first Wednesday when James Allison lined a one-out single, Al Mathews followed with an RBI-triple and Pat Barren scored Mathews with an RBI-single. Hamline tied it with two in the bottom of the frame.
The scored was knotted at three entering the top of the ninth but, with one out, Allison rocked his second home run of the spring to give his squad a 4-3 lead. Dan Grossman relieved Eph starter Harry Marino to start the ninth, but Hamline senior Andy King greeted the Williams sophomore with a solo home run to left field, tying the game.
In the bottom of the 10th, Grossman issued a one-out walk. After Mathews made a running catch at the fence in left field — with the runner advancing to second — Hamline's J.D. Modrynski snuck a ground ball back up the middle that just glanced off the glove of diving Eph second baseman Jim Entwisle, scoring the winning run in the process.
Grossman took the loss, allowing two hits and two runs, both earned, over 1 2/3 innings. Marino had his best start of the trip, going eight strong innings and giving up seven hits and three runs, all earned, while walking two and fanning three. Allison had two hits for the Ephs.
