WILLIAMSBURG, Va. – While the offense combined for 15 runs and 13 hits, Zack Potts and Carter Lovasz stunned on the mound, allowing only three runs, one earned, in William & Mary baseball's series-clinching victory over Quinnipiac Saturday evening.

The Tribe earned their third-straight win by a score of 15-3 to improve to 13-6 on the season and take their fourth weekend series at home. The Bobcats fell to 5-10 on the year.

Potts made his third start in the Green & Gold, earning his third win. He pitched a team-high and season-high 6.0 innings, allowing five hits, one earned run and no walks. He fanned seven Bobcats, reaching a season high mark. After a run crossed in the first, Potts followed with five scoreless innings, three of them perfect.

Tallying his first save on the year, Lovasz moved into sole possession of third-place all-time in career saves with 13. He trails only Joseph Gaouette (18) and John Farrell (14).

Centerfielder Ben Parker, who has made a habit of getting on base, once again extended both his on-base streak and team-high hitting streak. He's reached safely in all of the Tribe's 19 contests, doing so with at least one hit in each of the last 13 games. With a two-hit, four-run performance Saturday, Parker brought his run total to a whopping 12 in the last four games and his team-leading hit total on the week to seven.

Witt Scafidi led the Tribe with three hits in his first multi-hit game at W&M. The sophomore tallied a hit, a walk and an RBI for the second game in a row, also adding a run into the mix on Saturday.

Answering the Bobcats' first-inning run, Parker came across for his first of the game on a sacrifice fly from Joe Delossantos.

Batting around in the bottom of the fourth inning, Scafidi led off the inning with a single. Clawing back from an 0-2 count, Luca Trigiani fouled off three more pitches before drawing a walk and Kevin Francella was hit by the first pitch he saw to load up the bases.

Freshman Josiah Seguin followed, tallying an extra base hit in his third consecutive game as he doubled to score a pair. 

Lucas Carmichael dropped a single into shallow right field as Francella came around to score before Seguin crossed the plate on a wild pitch for a 5-1 Tribe lead.

Christian Rush drove in another Tribe run to the tune of a single to center field and Parker made it home once again. An RBI groundout by Scafidi topped off the Tribe's six-run fourth inning as they extended their advantage to 7-1.

Scoring three more in the next two innings while holding off the Bobcats, W&M worked up a commanding 13-1 lead.

Reaching base for a fourth time with his second hit of the day, Parker singled in Seguin. Carmichael came across on an RBI groundout from Delossantos after getting on base with a single up the middle. 

Tacking on a double-digit run total for the third-straight game, Parker scored the Tribe's 10^th run on a Bobcat error. 

In the sixth inning, Jerry Barnes III smashed a base-clearing double off the left-centerfield wall to add three RBI to his weekly tally of 10. Francella, Parker and Delossantos all scored on the play.

Quinnipiac added two more runs in the top of the eighth inning on a pair of Tribe errors. 

In an error-ridden eighth inning, Jakob Cohn reached base on an error by the shortstop and eventually scored as Rush drew an error from the third baseman. Trey Christman, on base from a single, scored the final run of the game as Calvin Warrillow sent a sacrifice fly to right. 

Lovasz's lone baserunner in the ninth reached on a Tribe error as he retired three Bobcats to end the game at the three hour mark on the dot.
 
Up Next
The Tribe are in search of a series sweep as they host the Bobcats for the series finale at 1 p.m. on Sunday. 
 
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