Fordham Baseball’s win streak reached five this past week, the team’s longest winning streak since March 2023.

The Rams started off the weekend with a one-game series defeating Monmouth University 5-2 at home. The story of the game was graduate student Zach Karson, who tossed a career-high seven shutout innings, allowing only three hits, striking out four and walking one. Fordham started the scoring in the second inning. Sophomore Carson Chavez was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded before freshman Tommy Markey drove in two with a single, giving the Rams an early 3-0 lead.

In the third, Fordham extended the lead with a two-out RBI double off the bat of freshman Chase Hanawalt. The score would remain 4-0 until the seventh inning when junior Daniel Bucciero tacked on a fifth run with a single. Monmouth recorded two runs in the eighth inning, but added nothing more as the Rams cruised to a 5-2 win.

Next up was a weekend Atlantic 10 series sweep at the hands of Davidson College in the Bronx. With rainy weather in the forecast, the weekend began with Fordham dropping both games of a Friday doubleheader, first 10-5 and then 17-6.

Game one started off well for the Rams, as they jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two innings. In the first, Bucciero launched a two-run shot to right, his third home run of the season. Fordham added to the lead in the second when sophomore Matt Dieguez hit a single, stole second and eventually scored on a fielder’s choice by junior Tommy McAndrews.

The Wildcats quickly res-ponded, scoring one in the third and three more in the fifth, highlighted by a two-run single to pull ahead 4-3. The Rams regained the lead in the bottom of the fifth after Markey led off with a solo home run, his second of the year and Bucciero walked, stole second, then advanced to third on a throwing error and scored on a wild pitch.

However, the lead was short-lived, as Davidson tied it in the sixth with a solo homer, before the Wildcats added two in the seventh and three more in the ninth on a three-run blast to seal the 10-5 win. Fordham starter, sophomore Aidan Dowd, threw 4.2 innings and tied a career-high with eight strikeouts.

The second game was all Davidson from the start. The Wildcats stormed out to an 8-0 lead by the sixth inning. Fordham got on the board with a sac fly from graduate student Andrew Kanellis, but the game slipped further out of reach in the seventh when the Wildcats added five more runs, including a grand slam. The Rams scored four in the seventh and one in the eighth, but the deficit proved too much in the 17-6 loss.

Game three was more of the same as Davidson completed the series sweep with a 12-1 win. The Rams looked threatened early, after loading the bases with no outs in the bottom of the first on two infield singles and a walk, but back-to-back strikeouts and a pop-out followed. A four-run second inning gave the Wildcats the lead for good. Fordham got one run back in the bottom half on a sacrifice fly from freshman Taylor Kirk that scored McAndrews, who had reached on an error. Davidson added two more runs in the third to push the lead to 6-1. A six-run eighth inning broke the game wide open and triggered the 10-run rule, ending the game early at 12-1.

The 1-3 week drops the Rams back below .500 to 15-17 on the season and 7-5 in conference play. They’ll next host Columbia University for a middle of the week matinee, before another three-game A-10 series, this time at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.