It was a mixed bag for the locals on Saturday but the peaks were rather exciting.
We had a 27-run onslaught, an incredible comeback and another impressive win on the West Coast for St. John’s.
Here’s how it went down:
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Division-I
- St. John’s defeated Cal for the second straight game, this time by the score of 3-1. With the victory, they improve to 3-2 on the season.
They trailed 1-0 early on but immediately erased that on a double steal with Jake Lazzaro scoring on the back end. The game was tied 1-1 entering the sixth inning, but Mitchell Henshaw gave them the lead with an RBI double. He wound up scoring on an RBI double by Sean McGeehan.
Joe Joe Rodriguez went six strong innings, allowing just one run on one hits – although he did walk five – to record the win. Ethan Routzahn worked around a single to record the save in the ninth. They will look for the series sweep tomorrow at 4 pm.
- Fordham fell to Grand Canyon University, 6-3, to drop to 1-5 on the season. The game was tied, 3-3, entering the 7th inning but Grand Canyon broke the tie with two runs and later added an insurance run in the eighth.
The first game of the doubleheader was cancelled due to rain, but apparently the puddles were enough to slow down the outfielders who were forced to evade puddles of water.
Jason Coules stayed hot with an RBI single in the second inning, and Jake MacKenzie singled home Jake Baker in the third inning to tie the game at 2.
John Stankiewicz got the start for the Rams and was terrific – throwing six innings, allowing just one ER. Alex Henderson was tagged with the loss. The Rams will look to salvage a W tonight at 5 pm before heading back home.
- Hofstra dropped a pair at La Salle by the scores of 4-3 and 11-3. This was particularly frustrating for them as they batted around in the first inning of Game 1 to take a 3-0 lead. Anthony D’Onofrio continued his incredible start to the season with an RBI bunt single to plate Austin Gauthier. A pair of bases loaded walks to Sean Flaherty and Alex Sica made it 3-0.
The Pride had a shutout through five innings as Jack Jett and Seamus Brazill kept the opposition off the scoreboad. La Salle scored two in the sixth but the Pride still took a 3-2 lead into the 9th inning but two hits, a wild pitch, intentional walk, another wild pitch and a strikeout followed by a walk-off single resulted in a 4-3 win for La Salle. Jimmy Joyce was tagged with the loss.
The offense for the Pride was shutout after the first inning, no player recorded multi-hits.
The second game featured much less drama. The Pride did jump out to an early 2-0 lead on a leadoff HR by Gauthier and a wild pitch that scored D’Onofrio.
La Salle bounced back with one run in the first and a six-spot in the second inning to take a commanding 7-2 lead. They added one in the third and three in the fifth and another three in the sixth to break it open. Brian Goulard and D’Onofrio each had two hits for the Pride.
With the losses, they fall to 1-5 and will look to salvage a victory tomorrow at 12 pm.
- Stony Brook held their own once against against undefeated ACC powerhouse Clemson. They lost 1-0 in 10 innings on a walk-off single by Elijah Henderson off Brian Morrissey. For the second straight game, the Seawolves got a great outing from their starting pitching. Today it was Sam Turcotte who fired six shutout innings with seven strikeouts. Unfortunately, the offense did not get him a run. They actually outhit Clemson, 8 to 4, but stranded 10 runners on base.
2B Brett Paulsen had three hits for Stony Brook and SS Stanton Leuthner had two.
They fall to 1-5 on the season, they will conclude their series against Clemson tomorrow at noon before heading home. Clemson is now 6-0.
- Manhattan fell to USC-Upstate by the score of 7-1. They drop to 1-4 on the season. Despite the loss, Sam Franco stood out – he notched three hits, a walk and scored a run in four at bats. T.J. Stuart pitched 7 strong innings but was tagged with the tough-luck loss. They will finish their weekend off with Presbyterian College at 11 am before heading back home.
- LIU was completely washed out this weekend in North Carolina. They will be back in action next Friday against Nicholls State in Louisiana.
Division-II:
- New York Tech won a laugher, 27-6, against Southern Connecticut State in Game 1 of their doubleheader.
They knocked three HRs (Ryan Kuskowski, John LaRocca and Frankie DiMartino). DiMartino’s blast was his first career knock and it was a grand slam that made it 27-6. They also drew 15 walks and were hit by three pitches. They scored eight runs in the seventh and it wasn’t even their highest scoring innings – that was 10 in the third.
LaRocca, Joseph Pesce and Ben McNeill all scored four runs. E.J. Cumbo went 4-for-5 with 3 RBI, Andrew Florides went 3-for-3 with 2 RBI.
DJ Masuck won his first game of the season, throwing five innings. Matt Bartnick closed it out with the final four innings.
In Game 2, it was much closer game. They held on to win, 5-3, with Brandon Alberto recording the four-out save to preserve the win and get Joe Murphy the W after throwing 5.1 innings.
The offense notched seven hits and drew five walks in this game. Larocca, Kuskowski and Kieran Dowd drove in the runs. Kuskowski was the only player to notch multi-hits.
They will play two today- Wilmington at noon and New Haven at 3:30 pm. The Bears are 3-0 on the season.
- Molloy won a wild one, 9-8 in 10 innings over Wilmington to improve to 2-1 on the season. They trailed 7-1 in the fifth inning but a 3-R shot by Robert Iadanza cut the deficit to 7-4.
In the sixth inning, Thomas Brady drove home Sean Hogan with an RBI single to cut it to a two-run game. Hogan then tied it up with a two-run shot in the seventh to make it 7-7. Wilmington briefly took an 8-7 lead in the 8th inning but Molloy answered back with a clutch homer of their own, by James Messina, in the ninth to send it to extras. That’s when Iadanza delivered the clutch walk-off single to score Chris Peralta.
Iadanza, Brady, Peralta and Messina all had multi-hit games. Chris Wiercinski pitched 5.2 strong innings in relief of Robert Lucano to earn the victory.
The Lions will finish out their trip tomorrow against Le Moyne at 9 am.
- Queens lost both to Shippenberg by the scores of 19-14 and 10-0 to drop to 2-2 on the season. The first game was absolutely wild as they took an early lead of 2-0 on a Lou Antos two-run double, but that lead did not last. They later trailed 5-2, but Jon Strauss‘ two-run double cut it 5-4 and Eric Roubal tied it up with an RBI single.
Shippenbberg went to work, taking a 12-5 lead in the fifth inning, but that wasn’t safe either as the Knights put up eight in the fifth and one in the sixth to take a 13-12 lead. The go-ahead run scored on a two-run HR by Lou Antos. Unfortunately, the ensuing inning featured six runs by Shippenberg and they added one in the eighth to take a comfortable 19-12 lead.
Evan Christopher was tagged with the loss, he allowed 10 ER in 1.1 IP. The Knights will finish today at 11 am, looking to salvage a victory.
