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Canton CANTON 0-14
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Winner Hamilton HAMILTON 6-4
Canton CANTON
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Final
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Hamilton HAMILTON
6-4
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Canton CANTON 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 2 4
Hamilton HAMILTON 1 6 0 1 3 0 X 11 11 1

W: Eshleman, Jack (1-0) L: H. Lavalley (0-5)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Lindsay LeSueur

Eshleman ’25 pitches a gem as baseball cruises past SUNY Canton

Continentals finished with 11 hits, batting .357 as a team

CLINTON, N.Y. – Hamilton College's Jack Eshleman '25 recorded a career-best 11 strikeouts in the opener and the Continentals breezed by the SUNY Canton Roos 11-1 on Friday, March 22 at Hamilton's Loop Road Athletic Complex. 
 
Season Update
  • Hamilton (6-4 overall) won its fourth straight game. 
  • Canton, a member of the North Atlantic Conference, dipped to 0-14 overall.  

Game 1

 
How It Happened
  • Hamilton took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when Taylor Kaufman '26 led off with a single up the middle, stole second and was knocked in by Matt Kinne '25. 
  • The Continentals busted the game wide open with six runs on four hits and three errors in the second inning. Charlie O'Brien '24 was hit by a pitch, Jackson Johns '24 walked and Jack Griffin '24 ripped a deep shot that rolled to the right field fence for an inside-the-park home run. Greg Kopp '25 had the second walk of the inning and Kinne reached first on catcher's interference. Michael Tallarida '26 drove in both Kopp and Kinne on a two-out triple to right center and scored on a fielding error.
  • In the bottom of the fourth, Kopp led off with a single to the right center gap and advanced to second on a passed ball. With one out, Tallarida knocked in Kopp on a sacrifice fly to center.  
  • The Continentals kept their foot on the gas and added three more runs on a trio of hits and one error in the bottom of the fifth. O'Brien singled to left field, advanced to third on a double down the right field line by Johns and scored on a grounder by Alfonso Rada '27. Johns was knocked in on a sacrifice fly to right field by Griffin. Kaufman loaded the bases with a walk and Rada scored on a single to left center by Kopp.
  • Canton plated its lone run on one hit in the sixth. 
Notes
  • Kaufman went 2-for-3 with two singles and a walk. He stole a team-high three bases. 
  • Griffin knocked in a career-high four runs and tallied his third career home run. 
  • Tallarida plated three runs on two hits, including his fifth career triple. 
  • O'Brien finished 2-for-2 and scored twice. 
  • Kopp drove in one run on two hits and a walk. 
  • Rada singled and drove in a run. 
  • Johns scored twice and recorded his second double of the season. 
  • Eshleman earned his first win of the season allowing only one run on two hits and walking one. 
  • Edilberto Rosado and Frank Nieto (double) had the hits for Canton. 

Game 2

 
Notes
  • Game two was suspended in the top of the fifth due to snowy conditions as the umpires deemed the field unsafe to continue play. Hamilton was leading 4-2 and only needed two more outs without giving up two or more runs for it to be an official game and a win.  
Next Game
Hamilton hosts Oswego State for another non-conference doubleheader on Sunday, March 24 starting at noon. 
 
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