Season Photo GalleryCenter Valley, PA (April 1, 2014) – Sophomore
Chris Polaski tossed nine innings in relief allowing just three hits and striking out five leading the DeSales University baseball team past Wilkes University, 7-4, in Freedom Conference action on a perfect Tuesday afternoon at Butz Field.
Polaski entered the game in the top of the first inning for fellow sophomore
Steven Wallace who was unable to record an out and allowed four runs on three hits and a walk. He struck out the first batter and then induced a ground ball fielder's choice, before the third out was caught stealing second base to end the first inning threat.
Polaski didn't allow a hit for the first 18 batters he faced before a one-out single in the seventh inning and allowed just three hits overall. Back-to-back singles with one out in the ninth put runners on first and second but a pop out to short on a terrific running play in no man's land by sophomore
Carrington Santana was the second out and a routine fly ball to left ended the game and the threat giving DSU the win.
Trailing 4-0 after the first inning DeSales began to chip away in the third scoring solo runs in the third, fourth, and fifth innings to trail 4-3 thru six innings. Santana knocked in junior
Drew Borger in the third inning on a ground out to short after Borger had tripled with one out, senior
Mark Fuse singled home junior
Nick Fischer with two outs in the fourth frame, and senior
Mark Westdyk drew a bases loaded walk in the fifth plating freshman
Tommy DePaul in the fifth.
The Bulldogs took the lead in the seventh scoring two runs on four Colonel walks, an error and a sacrifice fly from Westdyk and senior
Brian Mauro added the insurance runs with a two-run missile over the right-center field fence in the bottom of the eighth inning scoring DePaul.
Fischer continued his hitting with three hits, DePaul had two hits and scored three times, Mauro was on-base three more times, scoring twice, and Westdyk had two RBIs in the win.
DSU is back in action tomorrow when they travel to Rutgers-Newark for a non-conference game beginning at 3:30 pm.
