OTTAWA -- Freshman
Michael O'Toole of Vancouver, B.C., reached base four times, collected three RBIs and scored twice as McGill routed the Carleton Ravens 11-1 at RGCT Park, Saturday, to split a doubleheader in Canadian Collegiate Baseball Association play.
The result avenged a 5-1 setback suffered earlier in the afternoon, which halted the team's record win streak at 30 league and playoff games dating back to 2016.
McGill, which outhit the Ravens 11-3, exploded for six runs in the top of the third, then added one in the sixth and three more in the seventh.
Sam Greene, a management junior from
Philadelphia, Penn., tossed a complete game, three-hitter for the victory. In seven innings of work. The 6-foot-3, 180-pound right-hander allowed only one run, struck out four, walked two and hit one batter. He threw 94 pitches, 55 for strikes.
O'Toole, an 18-year-old arts freshman, was fifth in the batting order and went 3-for-4 at the plate, with a walk.
His three-RBI game was matched by leadoff hitter
Sasha Lagarde, a junior outfielder from Pierrefonds, Que., who was 1-for-5 with a two-run single, an RBI ground-out and one stolen base.
Teammates
Jack Pantalena and
Jonathan Duforest also had multi-hit performances for the Redmen.
Pantalena, an economics senior from Easton, Conn., was 2-for-2 with a pair of walks, an RBI and two runs scored. Duforest, a physical education junior from Kirkland, Que., went 2-for-5.
The Ravens deployed six pitchers in an effort to stop the bleeding. They combined to give up five earned runs on 11 hits, with eight walks, two strikeouts, two wild pitches and one hit batsman.
Starter
Troy Clarke lasted on 2.1 innings and was saddled with the loss. He gave up five runs, two of them earned, on four hits, with three walks and no strikeouts.
McGill, which improved to 9-3-3 overall and 3-1 in CCBA action, will remain overnight in the nation's capital to confront the Ottawa Gee-Gees (0-1) in a doubleheader slated to begin at 12 noon in RGCT Park.
