April 21, 2007
Box Score
DURHAM, N.C. - Duke starter Tony Bajoczky pitched his second career complete game, shutting down the Maryland baseball team as he led the Blue Devils to an 11-1 victory over the Terrapins Saturday afternoon in front of 711 fans at Jack Coombs Field. Duke (23-19, 7-13 ACC) leveled the weekend series by stopping the Terps' (24-17, 5-15) win streak at three games.
Bajoczky improved to 8-2 on the season after holding the Terps to one run on eight hits, striking out seven. His counterpart, Maryland starter Ryan Moorer (3-3) took the loss after allowing the game's first seven runs (six earned) in three innings.
Four Duke players recorded a pair of hits, as Jimmy Gallagher and Alex Hassan knocked in two runs. Brett Bartles and Gabriel Saade each added an RBI. For the Terps, sophomore Will Greenberg finished the day 3-for-4, while classmate Gerry Spessard accounted for the lone Maryland run with his solo home run in the sixth inning.
Duke scored in all but one inning, jumping out to a 7-0 advantage in the first three. A four-run first inning was capped off by a two-RBI double to left center by Hassan. The Blue Devils struck again with Gallagher's run-scoring single up the middle in the second inning.
In the third, Saade was responsible for both runs as he lined a triple down the right field line, scoring Hassan. Saade then scored from third on the same play, as a throwing error allowed him to cross the plate. The eighth Duke run came in the fifth inning when Gallagher hit a bases-loaded single, giving Duke a 8-0 lead.
Spessard blasted a drive to right field off of Bajoczky in the sixth with one out to break up the shutout, leaving the score 8-1. But, again the Devils found an answer as Tony Sherlock singled to left in the bottom half of the inning, scoring Nate Freiman. The Blue Devils punctuated the day when Jonathan Anderson hit an RBI base hit in the seventh inning and Freiman scored from third on a passed ball in the eighth.
With the series even at one game apiece, the two teams will meet for the rubber game Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m.
