BOX SCORE

When and Where: February 15, 2020 – Grand Junction, Colo. (Suplizio Field)
Score: Colorado Mesa University 6, Southern New Hampshire University 4
Records: CMU 4-1, SNHU 0-2

Redshirt-junior Marcus Chavez (Queens, N.Y.) went 1-for-4 and drove in a pair of runs to tie the game in the fifth inning, but the 14th-ranked Southern New Hampshire University baseball team dropped a 6-4 decision to second-ranked Colorado Mesa University on Saturday afternoon at Suplizio Field.

STANDOUT PERFORMERS

• Chavez – 1-4, walk, 2 RBI
• Junior Dakota Mulcay (Goffstown, N.H.) – 2-4, run
• Graduate student Joshua Goldstein (Haverhill, Mass.) – 1-3, walk, run
• Freshman Michael LaRocca (Vero Beach, Fla.) – 1-3, walk
• Freshman Felix B. Diaz Jr. (No. Brunswick, N.J.) – 1-3, run
• Junior Sam Henrie (Middleboro, Mass.) – 1-for-4, run
• Freshman Christian Mercedes (Providence, R.I.) – 1-5, RBI
• Junior Jeffrey Praml (Bridgewater, N.J.) – 2.1 innings, 1 run, 0 earned runs, 1 hit, 2 strikeouts, 0 walks

KEY MOMENTS

• Trailing, 3-0, in the top of the fifth inning, Southern New Hampshire pulled even with a three-spot. A leadoff double from Mulcay, followed by an infield single from Diaz Jr. and a walk to Goldstein, loaded the bases with one out. Mercedes came through with an RBI single to center, before Chavez tied the game with a two-out, two-run single to center.
• With the game still tied, 4-4, Colorado Mesa went ahead for good on a two-out RBI double down the left field line from Jonathan Gonzalez. The Mavericks tacked on an unearned insurance run in the seventh when a pop-up that should have ended the inning was dropped and allowed a run to score.

INSIDE THE BOX SCORE

• Senior Jake Coro (Johnston, R.I.) went 1-for-5.
• Redshirt-junior Alex Gomes (Peabody, Mass.) started and allowed five runs - four earned - on nine hits, while striking out four and not walking a batter, over five-and-two-thirds innings.

NOTES

• Southern New Hampshire begins the season 0-2 for the first time since 2015.
• Gomes was making his 19th career appearance for the Penmen, but started for the first time.

WHAT'S NEXT

• The Penmen wrap up the three-game set with the Mavericks Sunday (Feb. 16) at 2 p.m. EST.

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