WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – The William & Mary baseball team captured its first Colonial Athletic Association win in convincing fashion following a 15-4 victory over Northeastern on Sunday afternoon. The Tribe (15-6, 1-2) scored its second-most runs of the season to top the Huskies (12-11, 2-1).
The scoring began in the bottom of the first on senior
Hunter Smith's sixth home run of the year. The Huskies answered with a run in the next frame, but a 5-2-3 double play helped freshman
Zach Tsakounis escape a nobody out, bases-loaded jam.
NU took the lead on a two-run, three-hit third inning. However, four walks in the next frame helped the Tribe answer back with four runs to reclaim the lead. The Tribe added two insurance runs in the fifth and seven more in the sixth to essentially put the game away.
Senior
Nick Butts (1-0) picked up the win for the Tribe, going 4.0 innings, giving up two hits, no runs, and striking out four. Kyle Murphy (2-2) took the loss for the Huskies.
Tribe Standouts
In a 14 hit offensive explosion, four Tribe batters recorded multi-hit days – junior
Matthew Trehub, freshman
Hunter Hart, and seniors
Zach Pearson and
Hunter Smith. Smith recorded his third multi-home run game of the year, bringing his season total to seven.
Trehub reached base on four of five at-bats, recording four RBI and scoring twice. Hart finished the afternoon with three RBI. Freshman
Jack Cone slashed an RBI single through the right side in the sixth, while junior
Brandon Raquet dropped a two-RBI double in left field in the same frame.
Notes
The seven-run inning in the sixth was its most runs in a frame … The Tribe has scored 10-plus runs on the fourth occasion … Tsakounis made the first weekend start of his career … Smith ranks 12
th in program history with 23 career home runs … Smith is the fifth player in program history to register multi-homers in at least three games ... Trehub recorded his second multi-RBI game of 2019 … Hart tripled for the first time in his career … The Tribe has tripled 11 times as a team … Butts posted season-highs of four innings and four strikeouts.
Up Next
The Tribe finishes out its homestand with a pair of mid-week matchups. W&M will host Old Dominion on Tuesday, March 26 at 6 pm before welcoming Norfolk State on Wednesday, March 27 at 6 pm.