Derrick Chung had three hits and three RBIs in two games on Saturday.
The Hornets (7-11) lost 12-4 in the seven-inning first game and 6-1 in the full nine-inning second game. The Big Green's (2-4) pitchers gave up 11 runs on 18 hits to the Hornets on Thursday but limited Sacramento State batters to just five runs on 15 hits in the doubleheader.
The Hornets and Big Green meet again at 1 p.m. tomorrow and close out the five-game series at noon on Monday.
Dartmouth 12, Sacramento State 4 (Mar 17, 2012 at Sacramento, Calif.) (Game One)
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Dartmouth........... 420 010 5 - 12 18 1 (1-4)
Sacramento State.... 001 120 0 - 4 7 1 (7-10)
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Pitchers: Dartmouth - Horacek, Mitch and O'Dowd, Chris. Sacramento State -
Mendonca, Tanner;
Win-Horacek, Mitch(1-1) Loss-Mendonca, Tanner(2-3) T-2:04 A-183
Weather: 53 degrees, cloudy, NW 9 MPH
Adrian, H. faced 2 batters in the 5th.
GAME ONE - Sacramento State starting pitcher Tanner Mendonca entered his fifth start of the season with a Western Athletic Conference-best 1.45 ERA but the sophomore from Visalia, Calif., struggled against Dartmouth in the first game of the doubleheader and the Hornets lost, 12-4.
The Big Green recorded hits in their first seven at-bats en route to a four-run first inning. Dartmouth then tacked on two more runs on two hits and two walks in the second inning. Mendonca (2-3) was pulled going into the third inning and was saddled with the loss after allowing six runs on nine hits and three walks in two innings.
Relievers Hunter Adrian and Shea Lukes limited Dartmouth to just one run on three hits over the next three innings but the Big Green scored five more runs inning in the seventh and final frame.
Sacramento State scored on in the third, one in the fourth and two in the fifth. David Del Grande, Derrick Chung, Trevor Paine and Kasey Chapan each had an RBI in the game.
Dartmouth was led by right fielder David Turnbull, who collected three RBIs on a bases-clearing double in the seventh. Jeff Keller and Ennis Coble, the Big Green's No. 4 and No. 5 hitters, each had three hits.
GAME TWO: Dartmouth 6, Sacramento State 1 (Mar 17, 2012 at Sacramento, Calif.) (Game Two)
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Dartmouth........... 000 020 400 - 6 12 2 (2-4)
Sacramento State.... 000 001 000 - 1 8 1 (7-11)
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Pitchers: Dartmouth - Johnson, Michael; Olson, Thomas(6) and MacDowell, Matt.
Win-Johnson, Michael(1-0) Save-Olson, Thomas(1) Loss-Nichols, Ty(0-2) T-2:40 A-183
Weather: 52 degrees, cloudy, NW 8 mph
GAME TWO - Sacramento State was down just one run until Dartmouth blew open the game with a four-run seventh and the Hornets lost the second game of the doubleheader, 6-1.
After the Hornets scored a single run in the bottom of the sixth to cut the Big Green's lead in half, Dartmouth erupted in the seventh with four runs on five hits. Joe Sclafani led off with a single and moved to second on a wild pitch to start the inning and that's when the Big Green started to rack up the doubles. A double by Thomas Roulis scored Sclafani and Roulis came around on a double by Chris O'Dowd. Ennis Coble doubled to drive in O'Dowd and David Turnbull hit the fourth double of the inning to score Coble.
Roulis finished with a game-high three RBIs and went 3-for-5 at the plate. Dartmouth starter Michael Johnson (1-0) earned his first win of the season after going 5.1 strong innings with one run allowed on six hits. Thomas Olson recorded a save after entering in the sixth with the Big Green clinging to a one-run lead. He surrendered just two hits in 3.2 innings.
Sacramento State's lone run came on an RBI single by Derrick Chung. Chung and
David Del Grande each had two hits. Starting pitcher
Ty Nichols (0-2) took the loss after giving up two runs on six hits in 4.2 innings with three strikeouts.
