The baseball team continued its winning ways this weekend, winning two of its three games on the road against their NESCAC East rival Colby White Mules. The Jumbos dropped Friday's game 4-1, despite the fact that they started sophomore Jon Lee, who entered the game with an impressive 1.54 ERA.
"We made a few mistakes, a couple of errors," sophomore Evan Zupancic said. "Their pitcher was pretty good, but it was nothing we hadn't seen before. We should have hit him."
Tufts came back to defeat the Mules 9-7 and 19-0 in a doubleheader on Saturday. Sophomore Brian Shapiro got the win in the second game, which featured a small altercation with some rowdy Colby fans. According to the Zupancic, a number of fans were acting disrespectfully toward the Jumbo players. Then, freshman pitcher Randy Newsom was grabbed by a Colby fan while chasing down a fly ball. Several players left the bench, but there was no altercation, and the offending fans were removed from the game.
"It definitely motivated us," Zupancic said of the fans' behavior. "We definitely wanted to shove it in their face. The best way to get back at them was to put a lot of runs up".
