Wheaton Cruises to 8-0 Win over Baseball

Box Score

BRIDGEWATER, Mass. --- Junior Adam Gringas (Woonsocket, RI) combined along with sophomore Jon Shepard (Salisbury, MA) to hurl a shutout for Wheaton College as the Lyons cruised to an 8-0 victory over host Bridgewater State in non-conference baseball action at Alumni Park.

With the win, Wheaton improves their record to 25-7 while the Bears, losers of three straight, fall to 14-10.

Gringas (5-0) was sensational as he scattered four hits over seven 2/3 innings while allowing one walk. The righthander retired 17 of the first 21 batters before he was touched for two hits in the bottom of the seventh. Gringas also tallied three strikeouts.

Junior Tim Bonham (Marshfield, MA) absorbed the loss on the mound for the Bears. In his first start of the season Bonham (0-1) allowed seven runs (five earned) to go along with four walks and two punchouts in five 2/3 innings of work.

Ben Altman (Taunton, MA), Brian Guillotte (New Bedford, MA) and Joe Caparotta (Weymouth, MA) combined hold the Lyons to one run for the rest of the game in 3 1/3 innings.

Freshman Sean Munley (Trenton, NJ-DH) led Wheaton going 3-for-4 with two RBI’s while Paul Malaguti (Andover, MA-LF), Nick Pecora (Highland Park, NJ-SS) and Jeff Lineck (Foxboro, MA-C) each went 2-for-4. Malaguit crossed the plate twice while Pecora and Lineck scored one run apiece.

Senior Dana Hansen (Hanover, MA-DH) was the only Bear who notched extra hits as he went 3-for-4 with a double.

Wheaton scored two runs over the first two innings. The Lyons pushed across their first run in the top of the first on an RBI-double by Munley. After Lineck led off the inning with a double, he moved over on a sacrifice bunt and scored on a safety squeeze by freshman Eric Laliberte (Nashua, NH-1B).

Wheaton scored again in the top of the fifth to make the score a 3-0 advantage in favor of the visitors. Malaguti scored with the bases loaded on a double-play ground ball that was misplayed in the infield.

The Lyons broke the game open in the sixth, highlighted runs that were plated by Munley and senior Jake Yagjian (Bewster, MA-2B)

Bridgewater State College will play two MASCAC opponents within the next three days. The Bears will entertain a double-header versus Westfield State tomorrow and then travel to Fitchburg State on Monday. Both games will start at noontime.

In tomorrow’s double-header senior Martin Anderson (Meriden, CT) will get the start in game one while freshman Greg Potts (Milton, MA) takes the mound in game two.

Wheaton will host Brandies tomorrow at noon and then travel to Portland, ME to face-off against Southern Maine at 1 o’clock to close out the regular season.

Release written by Steven M. Miller, Jr --- Sports Information Correspondent