The Dartmouth baseball team won in convincing fashion yesterday, beating New Hampshire College 9-1 at Red Rolfe Field.
Bob Spillane '98 got the call for Coach Bob Whalen's Big Green, pitching six innings with only one run allowed. Spillane's looping curve- ball froze the New Hampshire nine in their shoes until the fifth, when they managed to get one run across the plate.
Dartmouth took time to thaw in the opening innings as the Big Green were mute until the bottom of the fifth, when Brian Mosley '98 got things going with a bouncer through the left side. Coach Bob Whalen's sluggers then held a lesson in run production as co-Captain Greg Gilmer '96 sacrifice bunted Mosley to second, Mike Armstrong '97 flew to right, sending Mosley to third, and Andrew Spencer '97 then got the timely hit, cueing a slicing rope to left for a double, scoring Mosley. Jake Isler '96 then knocked in Spencer with a single to right, upping the lead to 2-1.
Dartmouth notched two more in the sixth and three in the seventh. In the eighth inning, Spencer capped off the scoring with a two run tater over the left field fence.
Center fielder Spencer, who has had one of the hottest bats on the team lately, did not dwell on his homer after the game.
"I've just been trying to have a good fundamental swing. He put a pitch right in there and I just hit it hard."
Dartmouth, now 18-17 overall this year, will play its final game of the season with a non league game at Holy Cross on Thursday. Spencer said the extremely young team, which stayed in the race against the experienced three-time defending champion Bulldogs until the last game of the year, is very satisfied with its performance this season.
"We wish we came out a bit harder early on in the year, but realistically we are all very happy about what we have done."
