On Wednesday (4/2), Monmouth’s baseball team won against Saint Peter’s at 3:00 pm at the MU Baseball Field at the bottom of the ninth.
To start the game, St. Peter’s scored twice with two RBI doubles, giving them the lead early on. In the top of the second, the Peacocks scored a three-run home run, advancing their lead to 5-0. In the third inning, with no answers from the Hawks, St. Peter’s scored another run.
With 6-0 on the board, sophomore infielder Wyatt Hunt ran home and scored when graduate student and outfielder Harry Padden reached on an error. The Peacocks retaliated with a solo home run, pushing their lead to 7-1.
Monmouth’s comeback began in the bottom of the fourth when junior outfielder Nick Lovarco hit a two-run double, making it a 7-3 game. After the first scoreless inning for St. Peter’s, the bottom of the fifth included nine hits and five runs for the Hawks. Senior infielder Jay Bant and sophomore outfielder Chris Walsh both had RBI doubles, and Lovarco had a single that scored two runs, leaving the Hawks on top, 8-7.
In the sixth, Bant had an RBI single, leaving the Hawks comfortably sitting two ahead. After a scoreless seventh inning, the Peacocks tied up the score 9-9 in the eighth inning.
After a scoreless top of the ninth, Bant was the first hitter up to bat. On his second pitch, he sent the ball over the fence in center field for a solo homerun, winning the game for Monmouth.
In this game, graduate student and outfielder Casey Caufield had his 100th walk of his career, only the eighth player in school history to do so. He also extended his streak of reaching base to 25 straight games. This battle of the birds ended with a Monmouth win 10-9.
