Rams’ baseball outslugs Swampscott

LYNN ? Classical and Swampscott won’t be playing each other in football this fall, so the score in last night’s baseball game between the two schools will have to serve as a substitute.Wilfredo Feliz and Greg Rybak each hit a homer and drove in four runs to lead the Rams (6-4) to a 14-7 win over the Big Blue (6-5) in a sloppy slugfest, Friday night, at Fraser Field.Feliz launched a 2-run homer to left field in the second inning and drove in two more runs with a single in the fifth. He rode home two batters later on Rybek’s 3-run bomb just to the right of the batter’s eye in center. Rybek also drove in a run with a single in the first inning and tripled in the second.”Absolutely, this was one of our better offensive games,” Classical caoch Mike Zukowski. “It was good to see a couple of our hitters who had been slumping break out.”The teams combined for eight errors, four for each side, but Swampscott’s miscues hurt more than Classical’s. All of Swampscott’s errors led directly to runs, while Kyle Gauthier was able to pitch around a couple of the Rams’ fumbles.”The way we played and the way we hit the ball made it tough,” Swampscott coach T.J. Baril said. “Some of us didn’t come ready to play tonight, and it showed on the field.”Gauthier lasted six innings and allowed five earned runs on nine hits and two walks with four strikeouts. Sophomore Joe Rose pitched a scoreless seventh and showed off a wicked curve.”(Gauthier) battled,” Zukowski said. “He threw a lot of pitches, so we decided to give (Rose) a look in the seventh.”Nick Meninno started for Swampscott and lasted three innings, giving up six earned runs on seven hits. Tom Keenan pitched a scoreless fourth, but couldn’t get out of the fifth, in which the Rams exploded for six runs.Meninno drove in a pair of runs in the first inning with a fly ball to center that was misjudged into a triple. Classical answered with three runs in the bottom of the first, with the big blow being John Finnigan’s triple to center.Feliz’s bomb in the second inning made it 6-2, and Classical added two more in the third on singles by Ryan Hayward, Huebert Segura and Gauthier, and a balk. Swampscott rallied with two in he fifth on a walk and singles by Sean O’Brien and Mike Walsh (2-for-4).Classical’s big fifth inning gave the Rams a comfortable 14-4 lead, but the Big Blue came up with three in the sixth on a two-run single by Frank Legere and a sac fly from O’Brien.