Trinity Baseball Finishes 2014 Season With Split At Wesleyan

Middletown, Conn. - Trinity College and Wesleyan University split their annual in-state rivalry double-header as the visiting Bantams captured a 4-2 victory in the opener and the Cardinals came back to seize an 8-0 win in the nightcap. Trinity completed a seven-game winning streak to reach the .500 mark at 16-16 with its win before finishing its season with a 16-17 mark. Wesleyan improves to 24-9 while snapping a three-game losing streak.

Trinity got on the board in the fourth inning of game one with a pair of runs, courtesy of an RBI groundout by junior 1B Bryan Wolfe (La Habra Heights, Calif.) and an RBI single by freshman Colton Dana (Marblehead, Mass.). A double by junior 3B Dan Pidgeon (Darien, Conn.) helped set up the scoring opportunities. The Bantams upped the margin to 4-0 with two more runs in the sixth as the Bantams loaded the bases with two walks and a Wolfe double and scored on a hit batsman and a wild pitch.

Trinity sophomore starter Jed Robinson (Winchester, Mass.) threw seven effective innings to improveto 5-2, allowing five hits and two runs, with both runs coming in the eighth when he gave up a single and a walk with both players scoring after Robinson left for a reliever. Junior Donnie Cimino drive in the first Cardinal run and junior Sam Goodwin-Boyd nearly put the Cardinals ahead with a towering drive to left that was caught at the fence and went for only a sacrifice fly as the bases were loaded at the time with no outs.

\In the second game, Cimino went 3-for-4 with two runs and an RBI, while sophomore Gavin Pittore tossed 7.1 innings of scoreless ball, yielding just four hits, in upping his seasonal record to 5-1. Senior RHP Ryan Carr (Cos Cob, Conn.) took the loss for Trinity despite four strikeouts in 4.2 innings.