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Grigo, Offense Powers Baseball Past UCF, 15-5
3/20/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
ORLANDA, Fla. – Sam Grigo (Westbrook, Conn.) racked up four hits, including two home runs, and drove in six runs to lead the Brown baseball team past Central Florida, 15-5, in Sunday afternoon's series finale at the UCF Baseball Complex.
Brown (2-8) exploded for 16 hits from eight different players to cap the three-game series, while UCF dropped to 12-9 on the season.
Grigo went 4-for-5 to lead the offense, adding two homers, one double, three runs scored and six RBIs, the most in a single game for Brown since Mike DiBiase (8) in 2012. Jake Levine (Newton, Mass.) also had a pair of home runs and drove in five runs with one walk.
Brian Ginsberg (Calabasas, Calif.) went 2-for-3 with two RBI, while Kevin Guthrie (Sarasota, Fla.), Tim McKeithan (Arden, N.C.) and Josh Huntley (Aurora, Colo.) had two hits apiece.
Austin French (Orange, Conn.) earned the win after allowing four earned runs in 6.1 innings with four strikeouts.
Brown opened the scoring in the second inning, when Guthrie led off with a single before Grigo smacked a two-run homer to right field for the early lead.
UCF responded with one run in the bottom half of the frame, but the Bears kept their offense going with four more runs in the top of the third, starting with Grigo's RBI single for his second hit of the game. After Willy Homza (Anchorage, Alaska) drove in Grigo two batters later, Ginsberg hit a two-run single through the left side for the seven-run lead.
Brown scored runs in each of the next three frames, including Grigo's third hit on an RBI double to center field in the fourth. In the fifth inning, Levine launched a two-run shot over the right field fence before Grigo blasted his second home run of the day later the inning to drive in two more runs. In the sixth, Ginsberg singled for his second hit of the game to score Huntley and make it 13-1.
UCF countered with four runs on three hits in the seventh, highlighted by Brennan Bozeman's two-run triple, but the Bears came right in the eighth with Levine's second home run of the game.
Dante Bosnic (Lutz, Fla.) came in the pitch a scoreless ninth with a pair of strikeouts.
Brown is back in action next weekend with a pair of doubleheaders against Holy Cross. Brown will host the Crusaders in a team's home opener on Saturday at noon.
