What makes Stony Brook a dangerous team is they can play to any team’s strength. On Tuesday they were in a slugfest and scored 18 runs on 18 hits against NYIT.
They held a 5-0 lead in the top of the third with Aaron Pinto on the mound, but he struggled mightily in the third inning.
NYIT took a 7-5 lead with the big knock coming on a three-run home run by Louis Mele (3-for-6 four RBI), who now has nine homers and 40 RBI for the Bears.
The Sea Wolves responded with three in the top of the fourth on a two-run RBI ground out and a wild pitch.
They tacked on one more in the fifth, two in the sixth, four in the seventh and three in the ninth.
Jack Parenty, Casey Baker, Andruw Gazzola and Jeremy Giles all compiled three hits while Malcolm Nachmanoff drove in three runs. Parenty scored four runs and drove in three.
For the Bears, Matt DiBlase drove in four runs and had three hits.
Nick Brass recorded his second victory of the season for the Sea Wolves, he threw two innings while allowing two runs.
The Sea Wolves improve to 8-0 in mid-week games and 26-14 overall while the Bears drop to 14-26.
