Army Falls At Nationally Ranked Miami (Fla.)

Tuesday, March 17

Coral Gables, Fla.

6:00 PM

Army West Point

9-5

#17 Miami

16-6

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	Runs R	Hits H	Errors E
Army West Point	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	2
Miami (FL)	0	1	5	3	0	0	0	0	X	9	9	0

Army Falls At Nationally Ranked Miami (Fla.)

March 17, 2015 | Baseball

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March 17, 2015

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#17 Miami 9, Army 1

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CORAL GABLES, Fla. - David Thompson, the reigning national player of the week, hit a pair of home runs as #17 Miami posted a 9-1 victory over Army, Tuesday evening at Alex Rodriguez Park.

Miami, ranked nationally in the latest Baseball America poll, collected nine hits and improved to 16-6.

Mark McCants, Alex Dickerson, Jacob Page, Kris Linder all registered hits for Army, which saw its four-game winning streak snapped.

Army moved to 9-5 overall and suffered its first loss during its spring trip to Florida. Army will play Harvard Thursday at 2 p.m. at the New York Yankees Minor League Complex.

Miami, now 13-1 at its home ballpark this season, scored five runs in the third inning and won its sixth straight.

Patrick Gardner got the start for Army and threw 2.1 innings. He struck out two and allowed three earned runs. Garrison Franklin entered in the bottom of the third and completed an inning. Stu Schley took the mound in the bottom of the fourth inning and tossed 1.2 innings. Justin French came on in relief in the sixth, while Johnny Griffith threw the seventh. Matt Ball fired a scoreless eighth. Army totaled six strikeouts.

Army had a runner on in the second. McCants led off the inning with a single and took second on Alex Jensen's sacrifice bunt. Dickerson fouled off a couple of pitches before drilling a single to center on a 2-2 count to plate McCants for an early 1-0 Army lead.

Miami knotted the game at 1 in the bottom of the inning when Thompson hit his team-leading fifth home run of the season.

The Black Knights threatened in the top of the third. With two outs, Lindner singled, as did Smith, moving Lindner to third. Shortstop George Iskenderian then made a diving play of a sharply hit ball up the middle to end the inning and keep the game tied.

Miami went ahead in the bottom of the third, loading the bases with one out. Franklin entered and walked the first batter he faced before Thompson hit his second home run, a grand slam for a 6-1 Miami lead.

Army had a pair of runners on in the fourth. McCants led off the inning with a walk and Page singled before a flyout and strikeout ended the frame.

The Hurricanes added three runs in the bottom of the fourth on a throwing error and a two-run home run from Iskenderian.

Dickerson collected his second hit of the game in the top of the seventh inning but was stranded at first.

Army will play a single game against Harvard on Thursday in Tampa Fla., a doubleheader vs. the Crimson on Friday in Clearwater, Fla., and then end its trip with a nine-inning contest on Saturday in Clearwater, Fla.

GAME NOTES: Army wore its gray road uniforms for the first time this spring trip ... Miami donned special St. Patrick's Day hats ... Army center fielder Jacob Page made a great play to end the first inning, tracking a line drive to the wall ... Alex Dickerson's father, Ron, also got his first collegiate hit against Miami, off of Ron Darling ... Kris Lindner extended his hitting streak to five games ... Mark McCants had hit safely in each of his last three games ... David Monge, from nearby Pembroke Pines, Fla., got the start in right field ... Alex Dickerson recorded his first career multi-hit game.