BELMONT — The Wakefield High baseball team picked up their second road win of the season over a Middlesex League Liberty Division opponent last night with a resounding, 13-3 victory against Belmont at Brendan Grant Field.
Multiple Warriors had big days at the plate including junior Jack Pennacchia who drove in 4 runs including a 3-run homer in the 7th inning.
Senior Nicolo Labieniec hit a solo shot in the 2nd inning to extend Wakefield’s lead to 5-0.
Senior Andrew Nemec had 2 hits and an RBI; junior Aidan Bligh had a hit and 2 RBI; senior Cam DePrizio had 2 hits; senior Jayvith Chea had a hit and 2 RBI and junior Nik Dhingra added an RBI hit for a well-rounded Warrior offense.
Senior Marc Gagne got the win on the mound going 4 innings and scattering 5 hits and 7 walks while striking out 3 and allowing 3 earned runs.
Sophomore Patrick Maloney pitched the final two frames, allowing 2 hits and no runs while striking out 4.
The game was called after the Warriors put up 5 runs in the top of the 7th.
The win certainly felt good for Wakefield as they were able to enact some revenge for last season when Belmont beat them 11-0 at Walsh Field in another early-season game.
Wakefield’s home-opener scheduled for Monday against Woburn was rained out. They will stay on the road for the next two games as they travel to Melrose’s Morelli Field tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. before going to Stoneham on Tuesday, also at 4:15 p.m. The home-opener will take place on Thursday, April 17 against Burlington, 4:15 p.m. at Walsh Field.
Wakefield took advantage of multiple Belmont errors while Pennacchia’s sac fly and Chea’s infield single brought home more runs, giving the visitors a 4-0 lead.
Gagne worked around 3 walks in the 1st and got out of it with a strikeout.
Wakefield put up 4 more in the 2nd inning. Labienec’s homer made it 5-0. A sac fly from Bligh scored another run. Two walks and a single by junior Dylan McDermott loaded the bags again and walks drawn by Chea and Dhingra made it 8-0 before Belmont finally ended the inning.
Belmont got on the board with 2 in the 2nd but Gagne limited the damage, getting two groundouts to end it.
Both teams were scoreless in the 3rd and Belmont added one more in the 4th.
Maloney entered in the 5th and promptly struck out the side.
Wakefield ended the game emphatically in the 6th.
Dhingra led off with a double and later scored after a walk and an error. Nemec and Bligh followed with RBI base hits which set up Pennacchia’s home run to right field.