University of Massachusets Athletics
University of Massachusetts
9-16-1, 0
Dayton
17-17, 0
Massachusetts Baseball Edged By Dayton, 9-8
April 06, 2025 | Baseball
Michael Toth records career-high matching four hits to go along with two runs and two RBI on the day.
UMass moved to 9-16-1 overall on the season and 3-9 in the Atlantic 10 Conference, while Dayton improved to 17-17 overall with a 7-5 league record.
Michael Toth led the way with a career-high matching four hits, including a double, while adding two runs and two RBI on the day. Reece McCarthy followed with three hits with a run and an RBI, as five other players registered a hit. Braden Sullivan and Marc Willi had two runs each, alongside Toth, while Anthony Tirado tallied a team-leading three RBI and Sam Hill had two of his own.
UMass took the lead early in the second frame at 4-0. Sullivan and Willi led off with back-to-back walks, as Toth hit an RBI single to left field to drive in Sullivan. McCarthy laid down a bunt up the third base line to load the bases. A hit-by-pitch for Hill helped Willi cross the dish to make it a 2-0 contest, before Tirado singled to left field with Toth and McCarthy scoring to the Minutemen ahead 4-0.
Massachusetts pushed across two more runs in the third to extend its lead. Carter Hanson hit a single to left field to start of the inning, before advancing to second on a ground out. With two outs, Toth doubled to right center field allowing Hanson to score. A single from McCarthy aided Toth to run home and make it a 6-0 game.
In the fourth, a lead off solo home run put Dayton on the board, 6-1. The Flyers plated five in the top half of the fifth to knot the game up at 6-6.
The bottom of the fifth saw the Minutemen reclaim the lead at 8-6 with two more runs. Back-to-back-to-back singles loaded up the bases for UMass. Hill singled to center field, pushing Sullivan across the dish, while Willi came home to make room for Tirado when he was hit by a pitch.
The Flyers got within one at 8-7 with a run scored in the seventh on an error, before tying up the game at eight apiece in the eighth with an RBI single. Dayton plated one more run on a RBI double in the ninth to edge out UMass, 9-8.
Jack Levine (2-3) took the loss for the Minutemen, allowing two runs on as many hits, six walks and striking out one in 3.1 innings of work. Bennett LaPalm (6-1) had the win for the Flyers, giving up no runs, one hit, a walk and one strikeout in two complete innings.
Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Bennett LaPalm (6-1)
L: Levine, Jack (2-3)
Batting:
2B: Rylan Lujo 1
HR: Bobby Stang 1
RBI: Michael DiMartini 1 ; Rylan Lujo 1 ; Martin Howell 1 ; Bobby Stang 3 ; Adin Zorn 1 ; Mason Dobie 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Michael DiMartini 2 ; Rylan Lujo 1 ; Martin Howell 1 ; Alejandro Cazorla 1 ; Bobby Stang 2 ; Dyrenson Wouters 1 ; Ty Mainolfi 1
CS: Rylan Lujo 1
HBP: Martin Howell 1 ; Aiden Heberlie 1
Batting:
2B: Toth, M 1
RBI: Tirado, Anthony 3 ; Toth, M 2 ; McCarthy, Reece 1 ; Hill, Sam 2
SH: Peters, J 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Hanson, C 1 ; Sullivan, Braden 2 ; Willi, Marc 2 ; Toth, M 2 ; McCarthy, Reece 1
SB: Tirado, Anthony 1
HBP: Tirado, Anthony 1 ; Hill, Sam 1
