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Delaware 12 vs. Kent 10
February 28, 1999

Delaware Baseball Team defeats Kent 12-10

 

CONWAY, SC - The University of Delaware baseball team finished up its trip to South Carolina with a 12-10 win over Kent that saw the two teams hit for a combined 11 home runs on Saturday afternoon in a non-conference baseball contest at Coastal Carolina Stadium.

The win gave Delaware a 1-3 record on the trip and a 1-2 record in the round robin tournament, which included Coastal Carolina, Kent and Richmond along with the Hens.

Kent jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the second inning, an inning highlighted by back-to-back homers by Ty Carpenter and Casey Ellis, and a home run by John VanBenschoten.

Delaware answered back in the bottom of second inning with six runs highlighted by last seasons All-American Kevin Mench's first homerun of the season, which was a three run shot to put the Hens up 6-5. Kent jumped back to an 8-6 lead with two runs in the fourth and one run in the fifth, but Delaware jumped ahead 9-8 in the bottom of the fifth when freshman Vince Vukovich hit a solo home run and shortstop Peter Maestrales had ground out RBI to put the Hens up for good. Delaware closed out the game by getting Kent catcher Alex Marconi, who represented the tying run at the plate, to ground out to second to end the game.

For the Hens, Vukovich had two home runs while Mench, Chris Kolodzey and Ryan Preziosi also hit home runs on the afternoon. Kent had six players who hit home runs including VanBenschoten who hit two on the afternoon.

Delaware's Vinnie Keaser gave up seven runs and eight hits in 3 1/3 innings in his UD debut while Dave Mullin came in to get the win, pitching 5 2/3 innings and giving up three runs to move him to 1-1 on the season.

Delaware will be in action next on Satuday March 6 when they travel to Richmond to take on the Spiders in a doubleheader that will start at 12 noon.

Kent..........050 210 002 - 10 13 1
Delaware.....061 021 02X - 12 13 0

E: Detweiler; DP: D-1;LOB: K-4, D-8'; 2B: Marconi 2, Vukovich, McSherry;3B: Preziosi; HR: Bechard, Carpenter, Ellis, Van Benschot 2, Holick, Mench,Kolodzey, Vukovich 2, Preziosi

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