Yesterday was the warmest day of the year, with some parts of New York touching 80 degrees. It was a summer day with not a cloud in the sky and yet there was only three local teams in action.
Here’s how it went down:
Division-I:
Stony Brook beat Albany in an absolute thriller, 14-11, in Albany in a game that took three hours, 30 minutes. Shane Paradine notched the go-ahead two-run double in the 9th inning to give the Seawolves a 13-11 lead, which they would hold on to.
They actually led by 5 runs at two separate times. They led 6-1 in the fifth and 9-4 in the sixth following a solo shot by John Tuccillo. The problem was that the Great Danes offense was just getting going. They put up three runs in the seventh and four runs in the eighth with the game-tying run coming on a sac fly by Jason Bottari (Plainedge 2018). They took the lead on a wild pitch that scored Brad Malm (Pat-Med 2017). Down to their final three outs, Cole Durkan tied the game in the 9th with a solo shot of Robbie Manetta. After a single by Evan Giordano and an intentional walk, that’s when Paradine came through with the clutch double.
Brian Morrisey came up huge in relief for Stony Brook. He not only got the Seawolves out of a jam in the 8th inning with two strikeouts but also struck out the side in the ninth to record the win.
The Seawolves notched 15 hits in this game, with multi-hit games from Evan Giordano (2-for-5, 2 RBI, 3 runs), Chris Hamilton (2-for-5, 3 RBI, 2 runs), John Tuccillo (3-for-5, 1 RBI, 3 runs), Shane Paradine (2-for-6, 3 RBI, 1 run), Brett Paulsen (2-for-5, 2 RBI, 1 run). The two teams will play a double header today beginning at 12. Stony Brook improved to 5-7 with the win.
LIU fell to Merrimack College by the score of 11-5. They got an early 1-0 lead on an RBI ground out by E.J. Exposito but Merrimack immediately got that run back in the home half of the first and never looked back. They scored four runs in each of the first two innings. Jackson Svete was tagged with the loss, he went 4.2 innings, allowing 7 ER, on 7 hits and 3 walks.
The Sharks actually had 10 hits in this game, with multi-hit games from Chris Wasson and Andy Camilo.
These two teams will be back in action today for a DH beginning at 1pm.
Division-II:
Molloy trounced the College of Staten Island, 27-6 and set a program-record for hits with 24. The game was essentially over before it started when CSI showed up 30 minutes before first pitch. It was the first match up between these two teams in history.
Here’s how many runs the Lions scored in each inning
4 4 2 7 0 8 0 2 X
Here’s the players with multi-hit games
Peter Theodorellis (2-for-3, 3 runs, 4 RBI
Sean Hogan (2-for-5, 1 run, 1 RBI
Jake McCarthy (3-for-4, 4 runs, 1 RBI)
Anthony Vano (2-for-2, 2 runs, 1 RBI)
Tom Brady (3-for-3, 1 run, 1 RBI)
Garrett Scavelli (2-for-5, 3 runs, 2 RBI)
David Franchi (4-for-5, 3 runs, 2 RBI)
And they’ll be back in action today for a double header beginning at 11.
