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HUMPHRIES PLATES SEVEN AS SotO BEATS QUINNIPIAC
VETERAN RF HAS BEST PERFORMANCE IN YEARS TO LEAD TEAM TO EIGHT-RUN WIN

NEW BEDFORD, MASS. (May 13, 1876) - Sons of the Ocean took on Quinnipiac at home on Saturday, and what occurred was an exciting contest in which S.o.t.O. went up early, Quinnipiac came back, and the hosts pulled away:

S.o.t.O. opened the scoring with four runs in the 1st, the key hit a two-run Single by RF Otto Humphries, and three more in the 2nd, with another run-scoring Single by Humphries bringing in the final run of the rally.

Faced with a 7-0 deficit, Quinnipiac went work and slowly closed the deficit over the middle innings by scoring in the 3rd, 4th, & 5th, the key hit being a two-run Triple by LF Frederick Olson, to make it a 7-5 game. After a scoreless 6th Quinnipiac scored on a Sacrifice Fly & a Single in T7 to tie the game 7-7.

S.o.t.O. came right back at Quinnipiac. Humphries put the hosts ahead with another run-scoring Single, and two more runs in the 7th made it 10-7. S.o.t.O. then put up a five-run rally during the 8th, with Humphries hitting a three-run, inside-the-park Home Run to put the game away.

For Humphries, the Home Run in the 8th capped off a fantastic afternoon:

• B1: 2-run Single to CF off J. Honeycutt (R)
• B2: 1-run Single to LCF off J. Honeycutt
• B5: Reached via Error by 3B J. Reed
• B7: 1-run Single to 2B off D. Palmer (R)
• B8: THREE-RUN HOME RUN (ItP) to LCF off D. Palmer (R)
• TOTAL: 4/5 (HR, 7 TB), 3 R, 7 RBI, 107 GMSC

Humphries’ seven Runs Batted In were a team record, though it wasn’t the first six-RBI game of his career. On Independence Day four years ago, Humphries hit a Grand Slam as part of a six-RBI day against Green Mountain.

Both Quinnipiac and Sons of the Ocean are 2-2 after four games.