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MEDFORD - Junior Jon Tessier shut down the potent Tufts University offense as the Eastern Nazarene College Lions earned a 7-1 college baseball victory over the Jumbos on Monday afternoon at Huskins Field.
After giving up a run in the first inning, Tessier shut out a Tufts team averaging nearly 10 runs per game for the rest of the way to improve his record to 5-0. With 118 pitches, he allowed seven hits and the one run with seven strike outs and two walks.
The Lions scored first in the top of the first against Tufts starter Silas Reed. Back-to-back walks by Frank Landeiro and Steven Pesce led to an rbi double to right-center by Shane McNamara. However, Tufts answered in the bottom of the first frame after Ozzie Fleischer led off with a walk, stole second and advanced to third on a Lions error. Miles Reid doubled home the run.
The game went to the sixth tied at 1-1, but the Lions sent nine men to the plate and scored four times to take a 5-1 lead. Four walks by Jumbo pitching in the inning aided the Eastern Nazarene cause. Pinch-hitter Hunter Leroux-Porter walked with the bases loaded for the first run, and Tyler Bean followed with another bases-loaded walk. Landeiro then singled sharply down the line to first with the Jumbos unable to get the out on a close play with two Lion runs scoring.
Tessier was never really threatened after the first. Jumbos Ryan Noone (pictured) and Clay Sowell had base hits in the second, but Tessier got a fly-ball out to end the inning. He then retired 14 of the 17 batters he faced from the third through the seventh, with ENC catcher Ethaniel Almendarez catching Fleiscer stealing after a base hit in the fifth.
The Lions added two runs after two were out in the eighth. Kelvin Cortez singled and stole second, Bean doubled him home and then Pesce singled up the middle scoring Bean.
Tufts had a two-out single by Reid in the eighth and a one-out double by Ben Leonard in the ninth, but couldn't add on to it as Tessier finished off his outstanding performance.
Hernhy Lara was 2 for 4 with a run and a walk for ENC, whose eight hits and seven runs came from seven different players.
Reid went 2 for 3 for Tufts, and Noone was 2 for 4.
