Box Score TUCSON, Ariz. -
Bryce Didrickson was 3-for-5 with three RBI and
Aiden Chen threw five innings and struck out seven to get his first collegiate win as the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps baseball team picked up a 13-1 win in eight innings over Carthage on the third day of the Tucson Invitational Games.
With the win, CMS improves to 13-3 on the season, and 4-0 at the Tucson Invitational, with all four wins coming by run rule.
Carthage scored its only run in the first inning, but the Stags tied it in the second after
Dillon Martin led off with a walk and came home on a sacrifice fly from
Cruz Wexler.
CMS then broke it open with seven runs in the fifth. Didrickson led off with a double, and came home on a sacrifice fly from
Rider Gordon. Martin then hit a two-run homer to stretch the lead to 4-1.
Carter Bennett kept the rally going with a double and came home on an RBI single from
Jett Shue. Didrickson then plated two more with a two-out single to put CMS ahead 8-1.
The Stags then had their second big inning in the eight with five runs to enforce the run rule, keyed by a two-run double from Wexler and an RBI double from Didrickson.
McGraw closed out the game by completing a three-inning save with one hit allowed, as the Stags turned a 6-4-3 double play from Martin to Bennett to
Alex Henderson to end it.
CMS will close out the Tucson Invitational with a game against Crown College tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.