The Dartmouth College baseball team wrapped up their season yesterday with a 15-9 loss at Boston College to end the season at 17-23 overall and 9-11 in the Ivies.
Dartmouth seniors Mike Conway, Eric Anderson, and Ron Friedman all started and played their last games in Dartmouth uniforms. Thirdbasemen Mike Conway had a big day at the plate going 3-for-6 with an RBI and two runs scored.
Conway will leave the squad after taking the Dartmouth record for doubles and starting in the lead-off spot for the past two seasons. Anderson, who leads the team in batting average, started at DH and Friedman played left scoring a run.
Boston College, with the second best team average in the NCAA at .360, jumped on the board early by scoring a run off starter John Velosky '02 in the bottom half of the first.
The Dartmouth bats came alive in the third when Aaron Meyer '00, Joe Rockers '01, and Yale Dieckmann '00 hit consecutive RBI doubles to take a 3-1 lead.
But Boston College came right back in the bottom half by matching Dartmouth with three of their own to regain the lead at 4-3. The Eagles tacked another run on in the fourth, and after Mark Swan '01 completed the fifth inning, the Eagles exploded for nine sixth inning runs off John Velosky '02.
Sean McGowan's two run homerun to right, his twenty-second of the season, highlighted the inning and maintained his overall lead in the NCAA for home runs per game.
The Big Green's defense didn't hold out for yesterday's game as both Rockers and Matt Klentak '02, making his second start at shortstop, made errors up the middle that led to nine unearned runs to Velosky.
Dartmouth and BC added a single run a piece in the seventh before the Big Green pounded out five runs in the eighth after three of the first four batters were walked by BC pitcher Erik Olson.
Conway began the rally with an RBI single, and James Little '00 cleared the bases with a double to make the score 14-9 and bringing the Green as close as they would come.
Velosky took the loss dropping to 1-6, and Chris Gannon earned the win with seven innings pitched and six strikeouts to improve to 2-0.
