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From the Cheap Seats: Grayson
leads the way for Tigers Strong pitching and timely hitting helped the Princeton University baseball team to an 8-3 season opening victory over Old Dominion, at Norfolk, Virginia. Jason Quintana '00 and David Boehle '03 combined to yield just seven hits and two walks, and Mark Grayson '02 went 1 for 3 with a double, a stolen base, and three walks to pace the Tiger offense. Grayson led off the game, and the Tiger season, with a walk, and promptly stole second base. After advancing to third on a Pat Boran '02 ground out, Grayson scored on a sacrifice fly off the bat of first baseman Andrew Hanson '01. The lead was short lived. After getting the first two outs in the home half of the second inning, Quintana surrendered a single, a walk, a bloop hit just over the head of Hanson, and a sharply hit single to left field that put Old Dominion ahead 2-1. The Tigers reclaimed the lead in the top of the third. Jay Mitchell '00 laid down a bunt single to get things started and Grayson drew his second walk of the night. Boran knotted the game with a single to left field, and when Hanson was hit by a pitch, that set the table for cleanup hitter Max Krance '01, who drove a double to the wall in center field that scored Grayson and Boran. Catcher Buster Small '00 drew a bases loaded, two out walk that stretched the Princeton lead to 5-2. Though Old Dominion managed a run in the fourth, Quintana held the Monarchs at bay during the fifth and sixth innings. In the seventh, Boehle, a freshman making his Tiger debut, entered the game and hurled a 1-2-3 inning. The Tigers extended their margin in the eighth behind a double by Grayson, Krance's third RBI, and a two RBI single by Mickey Martin '01. Boehle pitched two more scoreless innings to seal the victory and earn his first save. By Matt Golden '94
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