WALTHAM, Mass. -- Sophomore catcher Matt Sucharewicz (Peabody) drove in five runs with three hits and a double to power Saint Anselm College to a 10-5 win over Bentley University in Northeast-10 Conference baseball Monday afternoon at DeFelice Field.
Saint Anselm (12-16 overall) overtook the Falcons in the conference standings, moving into a tie for third place at 8-5. Bentley, 18-15 overall and 9-6 NE-10, slipped from third to fifth place, percentage points behind Saint Anselm and UMass-Lowell, after losing for the fourth time in five games.
Saint Anselm, which finished with 16 hits, had five in a row, all to right field, during a four-run top of the first. Consecutive singles by sophomore second baseman Steven Panza (Watertown), sophomore center fielder TJ Murphy (Reading) and freshman DH Ben Waldrip (Medford) loaded the bases, and sophomore right fielder James Garrigan (Plymouth) followed with a two-run double.
After a strikeout for out number two, Sucharewicz made it a 4-0 game with another two-run double.
The Hawks made it a 7-0 game with three runs in the fifth. Junior first baseman Matt Stone (West Roxbury) had a two-run double and scored on a single up the middle by Sucharewicz.
Bentley cracked the scoring column in the bottom of the same inning on a two-run triple by junior second baseman Charlie Pagliarulo (Medford/Medford HS), his fifth three-base hit of the season.
After Saint Anselm scored two unearned runs in the top of the seventh, Bentley got three back in the bottom half of the inning when it strung together four of its ten hits. Junior catcher Mike DeCoste (Chelmsford/Chelmsford HS) and junior first baseman Garrett Stenhouse (Warwick, R.I./Pilgrim HS) had back-to-back RBI doubles, and sophomore right fielder James Roche (Arlington/Arlington HS) had an RBI single.
The middle of the order did almost all the damage for Saint Anselm, with the three through seven hitters a combined 13 of 25 with nine RBI and eight runs scored. Garrigan was 3-for-5, and Waldrip, Stone and Murphy each had two hits.
DeCoste, Stenhouse and Roche each had two hits for Bentley, which stranded four runners in scoring position over the first six innings.
Freshman John Healy (Cranston, R.I.), the first of four Hawk pitchers, picked up his second win after allowing seven hits and four runs in 6.2 innings. Senior Jarrod Marchesi (Everett/Peabody HS) took the loss after giving up 11 hits and seven runs in six innings. He struck out seven and didn't issue a walk.
The six innings boosted Marchesi's career total to 254, breaking the record formerly held by Tim Bryant (2002-05, 251.1).
Bentley is at Tufts for a non-conference game on Tuesday and returns to NE-10 play with games at Saint Anselm Wednesday and Friday.
