HAVERFORD, Pa. – The Haverford College baseball team (20-14, 8-8 CC) fell to Swarthmore (22-15, 13-3 CC), 18-6, on Friday in the final home Centennial Conference game of the season. The matchup counted for half a point in the Hood Trophy Rivalry.
Swarthmore jumped out early, as Leor Kedar led off with a solo home run. Aidan Sullivan tripled and scored on a wild pitch, followed by a Brad Johnston three-run homer to give the Garnet a 5-0 lead after one.
Haverford responded in the bottom half as Jackson Sgro doubled and scored on an Anthony Runfola single. The Fords then tied the game at 5-5 in the second. Daniel Rosman drove in Luke Treese with a groundout before Harry Genth doubled in two runs with a liner down the left field line, extending his hit streak to 32 games, now the third longest in Centennial Conference history, while matching the Centennial Conference single-season RBI record in the process with his 72nd and 73rd RBI of the season. Genth later scored on a Jack Wallis groundout.
Swarthmore countered with six runs in the fourth. Johnston hit his second homer of the day, and Andrew Firko added a two-run single. A Sullivan double and RBI groundout capped the inning, putting the Garnet up 11-5.
The Garnet added three in the eighth and four in the ninth, including a three-run homer by Benjamin Buchman. Haverford's final run came in the eighth on a Miles Prusek RBI single.
Steven Jungers closed it out for Swarthmore despite giving up a hit and a run in the inning, securing the 18-6 win.
The Fords close the regular season on Sunday, April 27, at Dickinson with a doubleheader at MacPhail Field. First pitch is slated for noon as the Fords look to secure a spot in the Centennial Conference tournament.
