Bender, Marrero Have Career Days in 9-4 Win at FGCU

Sunday, March 10

Fort Myers, Fla. / Swanson Stadium

12:00 PM

Quinnipiac University

4-6

Florida Gulf Coast

11-5

Quinnipiac

FGCU

Photo by: John Hassett

Bender, Marrero Have Career Days in 9-4 Win at FGCU

3/10/2019 4:43:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Bobcats Conclude Three-Game Series at Eagles with Fourth Win of Season

By: QU Athletic Communications

FORT MYERS, Fla. – Colton Bender (Lebanon, Connecticut) and Andre Marrero (West Springfield, Massachusetts) each recorded career-highs with four hits Sunday afternoon as the Quinnipiac baseball team salvaged the final game of a three-game series at Florida Gulf Coast with a 9-8 win over the Eagles.

Quinnipiac scored runs in six of the nine innings on Sunday as the Bobcats scored early before hanging on for the win late. Andrew Workman (Pound Ridge, New York) and Robert Lewis (Seaford, New York) combined to pitch the final 4.2 innings of the game, allowing just four hits and one run. Workman picked up his first win of the season while Lewis earned his first career save.

Four different Bobcats came around to score two runs in the game as Kyle Maves (Burlington, Ontario) and Samuel LaChance (Dover, New Hampshire) joined Bender and Marrero. LaChance hit his first career home run with a drive to left center field in the third inning.

Anthony Cruz (Burlington, Massachusetts) and LaChance each had two-hit games while Maves stole a pair of bases after reaching base three times.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 9, Florida Gulf Coast 8

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (4-6) | Florida Gulf Coast (11-5)

LOCATION
Swanson Stadium | Fort Myers, Fla.

BOBCATS SCORING SUMMARY
FIRST INNING

The Bobcats struck in the opening inning after Maves reached with a leadoff walk.
With two outs in the inning, LaChance singled to center field to advance Maves to third before Bender single to right field to score Maves easily

SECOND INNING

Quinnipiac got the inning started with a one-out single to left field by Marrero
Cruz singled to center to move Marrero up to second before Maves singled to left to load the bases
Marrero came home to score on a wild pitch followed by Kevin Huscher's (Middleboro, Massachusetts) RBI groundout

THIRD INNING

LaChance opened the third inning with his first career home run to extend Quinnipiac's lead to 4-0 in the first three innings

FIFTH INNING

LaChance reached on a throwing error with one out in the inning and moved up to third on a Bender single up the middle
The Bobcats loaded the bases with a Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) single to right to load the bases before Marrero singled through the left side to score LaChance from third base and Bender came around to score on a fielding error by the left fielder that extended Quinnipiac's lead to six runs

SIXTH INNING

Maves led off the sixth with another walk Sunday afternoon and quickly stole second
Huscher walked to put runners on first and second before the Bobcats executed a double steal to put both runners in scoring position
Evan Vulgamore (Bow, New Hampshire) lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that scored Maves to extend the lead back to four runs before FGCU got a run back in the bottom half of the inning to cut the lead to 7-4

NINTH INNING

Bender led off the inning with a double to right field and advanced to third on a sacrifice bunt from Moskey
Following a pitching change, Ian Ostberg (Northampton, Massachusetts) was hit by a pitch to put runners on the corners with one out
Marrero followed up with a single to right field that scored Bender but Ostberg was thrown out trying to go to third which allowed Marrero to move up to second
Cruz came up next and singled to left to score Marrero from second base to give the Bobcats a 9-4 edge

NOTES

Marrero went 4 for 5 two runs and two RBIs to lead the Bobcats offensive attack
He has now scored a run in six straight games with nine total runs in that span
Quinnipiac scored 22 runs in the weekend series against, it's most in a weekend series so far this season
Bender extended his hitting streak to six games and has now hit safely in seven of his eight games this season
Bender's four hits were his most in a single game in his career while he came around to score twice for the second straight game
LaChance launched his first career home run as part of a 2 for 4 day at the plate and drew a walk to reach base three times
LaChance's two-hit game was the second of his career as he has now hit safely in each of his five games this season and owns a .389 batting average
Maves reached base three times as he singled, walked twice and stole a pair of bases as well as scored two runs
Maves has reached base safely in eight games this season
Cruz recorded his second two-hit game of the season as he went 2 for 5 with a run and RBI
Lewis' save was the first of his career as he made his third appearance of the season, recording a pair of strikeouts and allowing just two hits
Correira struck out two batters in 4.1 innings pitched as he made his second career start and second start of the season

UPCOMING GAMES

The Bobcats travel to Florida's east coast on Monday to prepare for a two-game series against the Florida Atlantic Owls on Tuesday and Wednesday
First pitch is set for 6:30 p.m. each night at the FAU Baseball Stadium in Boca Raton, Florida