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Dowling stayed red-hot and won three of four games from Mercy College this weekend to improve to 21-9. We covered the win on Friday night, in which Cody McParland threw seven innings and the offense racked up 17 hits.
They won the second game by the score of 10-5 on Saturday. Brendan Butler improved to 5-1, but it was not his most dominating effort of the season. He went 6.1 innings, allowing three ER on six hits and five walks while striking out five.
Andrew Sesto came in and provided 2.2 perfect innings of relief, striking out four batters.
Fortunately, the offense provided more than enough runs.
They smacked 14 more hits–Tyler Piccolo had three while driving in two runs, while Vinny Orlando, RJ Going, Dan Parisi and Michael Richter all had two hits.
Leadoff man Adam Schuster drove in three runs.
In the third game of the series, the Golden Lions won it with their arms. Dominick Danetti started and threw 7.2 innings, allowing just one ER. He struck out five while walking three.
The offense got going in the fifth inning with two runs. The first was unearned, coming on a dropped popup by the shortstop to score Michael Richter. The second run came on an RBI single by Chris Appell.
After Mercy scored one in the eighth, the Golden Lions got an insurance run in the ninth on an RBI single by Michael Rizzitello.
Dennis Buckstein threw 1.1 shutout innings for his second save of the season.
They ended up losing the final game, with Kyle DeMeo suffering the loss. The Golden Lions will return to action on Wednesday at Concordia.
