The Boston College baseball team wrapped up its lone home fall ball game of the season in Brighton, and the Eagles made sure it ended with two wins. Boston College beat Hofstra twice on Saturday afternoon, taking both seven-inning games by a 5-3 score.
The opener started with the Eagles setting the tone in the second inning. Luke Gallo singled, Colin Larson walked, and then Gallo swiped third.
Easton Masse followed with an RBI single to bring Gallo home, and Brodey Bitove added the next run to make it 2-0. Hofstra answered with a run in the top of the third, but Boston College kept pressing.
Ty Mainolfi tripled in the next inning, and Gallo came through again with a sacrifice fly to score him. Then in the fifth, Mainolfi and Gallo linked up once more. Mainolfi doubled, stole a base, and Gallo drove him in with a double to stretch the lead.
Hofstra got one more run in the first game, but the Eagles closed it out in the bottom of the seventh. Sean Martinez singled, and Mainolfi brought him in for the fifth and final Boston College run.
Game two followed a similar script, with the Eagles jumping in front early. Mainolfi doubled in the third inning and Gallo singled him home. Danny Surowiec then broke things open with a two-run home run for a 3-0 lead.
Boston College kept adding on from there. Martinez doubled to start the fourth, stole third, and later scored on a wild pitch.
In the fifth, Larson was hit by a pitch, stole a base, and then came home on Nick Quagliato’s RBI single. Hofstra pushed across three runs in the sixth, but the Eagles held on again for the 5-3 win.
Mainolfi turned in the loudest all-around day at the plate. In game one, he went 3-for-4 with two doubles, a triple and an RBI, reaching base in three of his four trips.
Gallo also delivered in the first game, finishing 2-for-4 with a single, double and RBI. Masse added an RBI single and drew two walks in three productive plate appearances.
Surowiec supplied the biggest swing of game two with his two-run shot, finishing 2-for-4 with a home run, a single and two RBIs. Martinez went 2-for-3 across the day, adding a double, a stolen base and the run that sealed game one.
On the mound, Brady Miller started the opener and struck out three over three innings. Brayden Ryan and Champ Davis followed with back-to-back scoreless innings, and Gavin Soares finished the game over the final two frames. In the second game, Matt Kouser opened with two shutout innings, and the bullpen handled the rest with three more scoreless innings before Kyle Kipp locked down the victory.
Davis was especially sharp in relief in game one, working one inning, allowing two hits and no runs while striking out two.
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