Baseball Rolls Past Suffolk

BOSTON, Mass. – The Wentworth Institute of Technology baseball team picked up another CNE win with a 16-5 victory over the Suffolk Rams on Tuesday afternoon. Cyle Archer went 4-6 with two runs and four RBI to lead the Leopards. Christian Roncal went 3-3 with three runs and four RBI while Josh Turcotte tallied three hits, two RBI and one run. Aaron Masson improved to 3-0 after 2.2 innings with three strikeouts.

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Roncal got things rolling with a solo home run to left field in the first inning. Archer's RBI groundout and an RBI single from Roncal made it 4-0 Wentworth in the second. The Rams got a run back in the bottom of the second to make it a 4-1 game.
• Matt Robinson scored on a wild pitch before Mike Sibert's walk brought in another run for the Leopards. Archer followed with a single down the right field line and Roncal had a sacrifice fly to give Wentworth an 8-1 lead through three innings.
• Archer's RBI single in the fifth stretched the lead to 9-1 before the Rams tacked on a pair of runs in the bottom half of the frame to cut the lead to six. Archer came up big again with another RBI in the seventh, pushing the lead back to seven. The Leopards' offense was rolling in the seventh, tacking on another three runs to lead 13-3.
• Suffolk made it 13-5 in the bottom of the seventh, but Wentworth's lead was too much to overcome. Robinson hit a double down the left field line to score two runs before Turcotte's double brought in the final run for Wentworth in the ninth.
• The Leopards get an important conference win and improve to 6-4 in league play.  

THE SERIES

• Today was the 28^th all-time meeting between the teams.

NEXT UP

• The Leopards visit New England College on Thursday.

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