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MCLA Men's Tennis Opens Season with Win
09:03PM / Sunday, March 08, 2020
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BENNINGTON, Vt. — The MCLA men's tennis team opened its 2020 season with a resounding 8-1 win over NVU-Johnson Sunday at the Bennington Tennis Center.
 
In this non league matchup, the Trailblazers started fast as they swept through the doubles matchups. Savoy's Cal Najimy paired with John Archer-Harvey for an 8-1 win in the top doubles slot. Andrew Nygard and Nick Castle disposed of Patrick Bell and Kyle Robbins for another point, and when Mohamed Mahrous and Curt Nitzsche won, the Trailblazers were up 3-0.
 
In singles play, Nygard defeated David Cosman 6-2, 6-3 for his second point of the day. Archer-Harvey won handily in the third singles slot while Castle earned his second point in the fourth matchup. Mahrous and Felix Bou also earned points for MCLA to round out their scoring.
 
The Badgers' Dylan Griffin topped Najimy in a hard fought, three-set matchup to earn the lone point for NVU.
 
MCLA is off until Wednesday when it heads to Castleton, Vt., for another non league match.
 
Baseball
YAPHANK, N.Y. — For the second consecutive weekend, the MCLA baseball team took the long trip to Long Island for a pair of contests  MCLA defeated Mount Saint Vincent 8-6 in the opener and then rallied past the Dolphins for a 3-2 win in the nightcap. The Trailblazers improve to 3-3 on the young season. CMSV dips to 2-2. 
 
In the first game, MCLA scored four times in the top of the first to take an early lead. Jake Ferrara started the scoring with an RBI single scoring Ben Durland. Starting pitcher William Leino drove in Christian Seariac for another run and Dillon Maxon followed with another RBI knock to increase the lead to 3-0. A squeeze bunt from Joe Toledo wrapped up the scoring for the frame and MCLA led 4-0.  
 
The Dolphins chipped away at Leino and got three runs back over the second and third frames to cut it to just 4-3 after three.  MCLA extended the lead in the fourth on Durland's two run single to make it 6-3.
 
In the fifth, Maxon homered to left to make it 7-3.
 
The Dolphins started to rally and eventually chased Leino in the fifth. The Dolphins scored a pair of runs to get within 7-5.  The Trailblazers added a key insurance tally in the sixth on Taconic grad Austin Rachiele's solo homer to left that made it 8-5.  
 
The Dolphins added a run in the seventh, but Max Gabrielly held them at bay to record the save.
 
Leino got the win tossing the first 5.1 innings. He allowed five runs and struck out four as he improved to 2-0 on the season.  
 
Maxon ended with a pair of hits as did Seariac and Shawn James.
 
In the nightcap, CMSV scored twice off MCLA starter Ryan Ruef of Lee in the second on a two-run home run for a 2-0 advantage. The MCLA offense couldn't do much over the first three innings, but began to rally in the fourth.
 
MCLA began its rally in the fourth. A double steal got things going as Drury graduate Logan Rumbolt swiped second and Ferrara came around to score on the throw to cut it to 2-1 after four.
 
The score remained that way until the sixth.  Ferrara singled to start the frame and after an out, Maxon doubled to left putting himself and Ferrara in scoring position.  After another out, Joe Toledo came up clutch delivering a two run single to give MCLA a 3-2 lead.
 
MCLA's Noah Matrigali (Hoosac Valley) kept CMSV at bay over the final two frames to secure the win. He tossed 3-1/3 innings in relief of Ruef to earn his first collegiate victory. He allowed just one hit.  
 
Rachiele continued his great early season play with a 3 for 4 showing. Ferrara added two hits and scored twice for MCLA.
 
The Trailblazers are off until Friday when they begin their annual Florida trip.
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