Rhode Island Lineup
Cucinotta (CF), Ramirez (2B), Kopack (LF), Genther (C), DePino (3B), Fortin (1B), Cherry (DH), Cartnick (RF), Salgado (SS), Savedoff (P)
 
Brown Lineup
Marra (1B), Sass (2B), Crawford (3B), Rappoli (DH), Morphew (CF), Boree (SS), Johnson (LF), Burley (C), Lang (RF), Gottam (P)
 
How it Happened
Defensive woes and struggles with command doomed the Rams early on as URI found itself trailing Brown 11-1 after just three innings of play. Through those first three innings, the Bears combined for eight hits, but also benefitted from eight walks, one hit batter and four Rhode Island errors.
 
Rhody's John Jones managed to keep the Bears off the board in the fourth inning, but gave up five runs in the fifth to make it a 16-1 game.
 
In the bottom of the fifth, a bases-loaded walk to Eric Genther pushed across Tino Salgado and Joe Fortin was hit by a pitch to send home Jack Cucinotta, making the score 16-3. The Rams added two more in the sixth as Tommy Cartnick scored on an Alex Ramirez double before Cucinotta made it 16-5 on a sacrifice fly by Addison Kopack.
 
Brown rallied for six more runs in the top of the eighth, and tacked on one more in the ninth for the eventual 23-5 victory.
 
Inside the Box Score

• Junior Alex Ramirez went 2-for-3 with one walk one RBI and one run scored. He also had seven assists at second base.
• Grad student Jack Cucinotta singled, walked and scored twice.
• Redshirt sophomore Addison Kopack was 1-for-2 with a walk, a sac-fly and one RBI.
• Freshman Eric Genther drove in two runs, singled and walked.
• Sophomore Tommy Cartnick and junior Tino Salgado both walked and scored a run.
• Redshirt freshman Rob Butler doubled in a pinch-hit at-bat.
• Freshman starter Corey Savedoff was charged with the loss. Over an inning and two thirds, he gave up four runs (two earned) on two hits, four walks and a hit batsman.
• Redshirt freshman John Jones was the third pitcher out of the bullpen for the Rams, and the first to get through an inning unscathed. After tossing a scoreless fourth, he was roughed up for five runs in the fifth.
• Junior Zach Fernandez struck out the side in the seventh. Overall he retired each of the five hitters he faced.
• Junior Calvin McCall made his first pitching appearance of the season. He recorded two strikeouts in the top of the ninth.
• A total of eight different Rhody pitchers combined to allow 15 hits, issue 18 walks and hit two batters.

Up Next
Rhode Island is back in action Wednesday night at Holy Cross.