BRISTOL, R.I. – James Lydon (Calverton, N.Y.) set the new career wins mark in school history as the Roger Williams University Baseball team took both games of a doubleheader Eastern Nazarene College Tuesday afternoon by the scores 9-6 and 5-1.

 

Lydon earned his 16 career victory at Roger Williams, passing Matt Killam and Colin Wheln as the new wins leader. He now improves to 5-0 on the year and 16-7 in his career.

 

Lydon fell behind early in the game, as Jarred Wiedenroth (Swampscott, Mass.) reached on an infield single in the top of the first and then came around to score on Dave Dickerson's (North Plainfield, N.J.) two-run home run to left center. Yet the Hawk deficit wouldn't last through the inning, as RWU put five runs on the board to give Lydon a three-run lead.

 

Though Wiedenroth gave the Crusaders another run in the third on an RBI single, the Hawks responded with a four-run inning of their own in the bottom half, highlighted by a two-run homerun by Tony Verrochi (Norwood, Mass.).

 

Despite being down by six, the Crusaders continued to claw their way back in the game, cutting the gap to four off of a two-run shot to right field by Stephen Newman (Valdosta, Ga.). In the end, the nine runs for Roger Williams held up as Eastern Nazarene only managed one more run in the seventh.

 

Verrochi finished 3-for-4 at the plate with two RBI, while Ryan MacCarthy (Middleton, Mass.) added two hits and two RBI.

 

Wiedenroth had two hits, one run, and one RBI for the Crusaders, while teammates Dickerson and Newman had a hit and two RBI apiece.

 

The Hawks jumped out to a 1-0 advantage in the second game with a solo home run by Jamie Dahill (S. Boston, Mass.). On the mound, Dan Roberge (Brockton, Mass.) retired the first eight batters of the game before allowing a bunt single to third by Craig Dix (Clinton, Md.) After getting out of the inning, Roberge settled into a groove, setting down the Crusaders in order in the fourth and fifth innings.

 

Roberge also helped out his own cause with a hard double to right center, scoring Dahill and Bill Lambert (Hanover, Mass.). Lambert would later chip in with a two-RBI double of his own in the fifth.

 

Those five hits would be all Roberge needed as he tossed a two-hitter in six innings of work, striking out five in the process. Justin Denbow (Readfield, Maine) picked up the loss, charged with all five Hawk runs.

 

Verrochi, Lambert, and Dahill each had two hits from the 1-2-3 spots in the order respectively. Newman and Dix had the two hits for the Crusaders in the game.

 

Roger Williams (21-8, 12-1 TCCC) heads to the back to the field tomorrow for a rescheduled doubleheader against Anna Maria College at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Nazarene (5-20, 2-12 TCCC) hosts UMass-Boston Thursday at 3:30 p.m.