Bears Storm Back to Top Princeton and Sweep Weekend Series

Sunday, May 1

Providence, R.I.

12:00 PM

Brown University

Princeton

Photo by: David Silverman Photography

Bears Storm Back to Top Princeton and Sweep Weekend Series

5/1/2022 5:31:00 PM | Baseball

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Trailing by eight runs early in the game, the Brown baseball team stormed all the way back and held off Princeton for an 11-9 victory in Sunday's series finale, completing the three-game sweep.

Brown scored eight runs between the sixth and eighth innings on Sunday, and rallied to win all three games this weekend after trailing by at least three runs in the first three innings in each game.

Sophomore Reece Rappoli cleared the bases with a three-run double in the seventh inning, which proved to be the game-winning hit. Entering in relief, sophomore Paxton Meyers allowed just one unearned run in 6.0 innings on the mound, holding the Tigers while Brown mounted its comeback.

POSTGAME NOTES

Brown's bullpen has not allowed an earned run over its last 29.1 innings of work.
The weekend sweep marks the first time Brown has swept the season series from Princeton since 2010, when the Ivies played only two games per season against league opponents.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

Six Bears had two hits apiece including Rappoli who, had four RBIs and added two walks.
Junior Ryan Marra reached base three more times on Sunday via a walk, single, and a hit-by-pitch while picking up two RBIs.
Ray Sass, Jackson Hipp, and Derian Morphew all had two hits and two runs apiece, and Charles Crawford and Gunner Boree both had two hits, a run and an RBI.
Meyers earned the win in relief after firing a career-high 6.0 innings on 98 pitches, allowing just one unearned run on four hits while striking out five, marking the second straight weekend he's set a career-high for innings pitched.
Senior Charlie Beilenson came on to get the final out in the ninth to earn his second save of the year.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Princeton went up 1-0 in the second inning, then blew the game open with a seven-run third, sending 12 men to the plate, putting the first seven batters on base, and scoring three unearned runs following a two-out error.
Brown answered right way with three runs in the bottom of the third. Jared Johnson drew a bases loaded walk, then Boree and Crawford followed with consecutive RBI singles to cut it to 8-3 before the Tigers ended the inning by throwing out a runner at the plate tagging up.
Brown added two more in the sixth as Marra plated Hipp with a sac fly, and Rappoli scored Morphew after a long at bat with a single to center to cut it to 8-5.
Princeton tacked on a run to make it 9-6 in the top of the seventh, but Brown batted around and sent 10 men to the plate as part of a five-run surge to take the lead, scoring all five runs with two outs.
Morphew tagged an RBI single to score Hipp for the first run, Sass drew a walk to load the bases and Marra got hit by a pitch to force in another run and make it 9-7.
Up next, Rappoli sent a double into the right field corner to plate all three runners to put Brown in front by one.
Sass added a big two-out RBI for an insurance run in the eighth inning which pushed it to 11-9.
After Meyers got the first two outs of the ninth, Beilenson entered and got the game-ending groundout to short with the bases loaded.

REECE RAPPOLI FOR THE LEAD!!!!! Bases clearing three-run double puts Brown in front in the 7th!!!

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— Brown Baseball (@BrownU_Baseball) May 1, 2022

QUOTES FROM THE COACH: GRANT ACHILLES

"The goal is to minimize what they have and be able to chip away and keeping putting pressure throughout the game. When you have a lineup that keeps fighting, that's something you're confident in being able to do."
"After that third inning, it was in Paxton's hands to hold them, and for our bullpen to enter in pressure situations, and continue to put up zeros, that kept us in it. Charlie coming in to work through baserunners and shut the door was critical."
"That run in the eighth was huge. It's a different feeling being up two runs instead of one in that situation."

ON DECK
The Bears will close out the 2022 season next weekend with a three-game home series against Cornell at Attanasio Family Field at Murray Stadium. Saturday's doubleheader will start at 11:30 a.m. and with a single game Sunday at noon, all on ESPN+.

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