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Big Train Come Unraveled in Rockville


Thursday, July 17, 2008
by Oriole Saah
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Box Score

Rockville's Justin Demarco led off the game with a double. Todd Eskelin, clean-up hitter, brought Demarco home with another double. The score remained 1-0 until Big Train answered with three runs in the third inning. Eli Boike (Michigan State) led off the inning with a walk. Zach Kim (San Francisco) joined him on the base paths with a single. Ryan Mulligan (Saint Mary's CA) moved them along with a sacrifice bunt. Jordan King (Meridian CC) added the first Big Train RBI of the game with a single and was himself brought home with an RBI single by Danny Stienstra (San Jose State). Michael Cipolla (Saint Mary's CA) earned an RBI when he reached on an error by Rockville's Adam Bryant but was then stranded on base.

The Big Train added two additional runs in the sixth inning. Luke Adkins (Mississippi State) reached on a lead-off single but was then caught stealing by Rockville Catcher Wynton Weather. Cipolla replaced him on the bases, reaching on a single. Drew Lee (Morehead State) joined him, also with a single. Boike brought in the first run of the inning, forth of the game, and Kim did the same, making the score 5-1 after 4 1/2 innings.

Seth Williams (Michigan State) entered the game in relief and the Rockville Express mounted their first come-back effort in the 7th inning when both Galvin and Bloodworth reached on walks. DeMarco drove Galvin home with a single and Bloodworth stole on a successful double steal when DeMarco reached third on an error by King. DeMarco was then stranded by three successive outs.

The struggling Express bats exploded for six runs on seven hits in the eighth inning, mostly off Quinn Ewert (Illinois State). Wynton Weather led off the inning with a single, reached second on a Cordoso single. third on a Martin pinch-hit ground out to third, and scored, along with Cordoso, when Galvin started a string of doubles. Bloodworth scored on a successful double steal that sent DeMarco to third on an error by Jordan King. McAvoy was hit by a pitch and reached second on the Eskelin single that scored Helmick but was stranded there when Weather hit into a 1-4-3 double play.

In the end, the Big Train fell, 9-5, making them now 23-3 on the year against everybody other than the Orioles.