MONTREAL – Chris Bodine had five runs batted in, while Matthew Rachman and Jett Jarvis each added three RBIs, as the McGill men's baseball team tamed the Collège Laflèche Dragons 15-5 in the opening game of an exhibition doubleheader at Gary Carter Field, Sunday.
 
The Dragons are a prominent sport-études program at Collège Laflèche, a private junior college in Trois-Rivières, Que.
 
McGill banged out 14 hits and committed two errors, compared to the Dragons who had eight hits and were charged with five errors. The score was lopsided early on as the Redbirds took a 2-0 lead in the second inning, then added five in the third and three more in the fourth to grab an insurmountable 10-0 advantage.
 
Laflèche scored their lone run in the top of the sixth but McGill replied with five more runs in the bottom of the inning.
 
Bodine, the starting catcher for McGill, went 2-for-2 with a walk and a run scored. The economics junior hails from Pound Ridge, N.Y.
 
Rachman, a senior third baseman from Surrey, B.C., went 4-for-4 at the plate, with a double and three runs scored.
 
Jarvis, a 20-year-old freshman outfielder from Wyoming, Ont., had three hits in five at bats, highlighted by a solo home run to right-field that gave McGill a 3-0 lead in the third inning. He also came around to score a pair of runs.
 
A fourth McGill player registered a multi-hit performance as first-baseman Carlos Vallejos went 2-for-3 with a walk, three runs and an RBI.
 
Sophomore Arthur "Cinch" Smith of Chandler, Ariz., started on the mound for the victors and improved to 3-0 on the season. A domineering right-handed pitcher, he scattered four hits over five innings of work, gave up no runs, struck out seven and walked three. The product of Perry High School in Arizona, threw 83 pitches.
 
Dragons starter Guillaume Paradis-Roy was saddled with the loss. He only lasted 1.1 innings and gave up five runs (two earned) on two hits and a pair of walks.
 
Caden Welch, a southpaw, is slated to pitch the second game of the doubleheader for McGill at 3 p.m.
 
McGill, which improved to 5-4 overall, is playing an independent schedule this season, primarily against teams in the OUA and RSEQ conferences. This is similar to what the Redbirds did in 2019, their last official season prior to the COVID pandemic. The Quebec-based RSEQ conference does not yet have an official baseball league and the Ontario-based OUA does not yet sanction baseball for a regular season, although they do recognize a year-end OUA championship in an invitational format. 

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SOURCE:
Earl Zukerman
Sports Information Officer
Athletics & Recreation
McGill University
514-398-7012 (Tel.)
www.mcgillathletics.ca
earl.zukerman@mcgill.ca