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Dowling Clinches Playoff Spot With Three of Four Against St. Thomas Aquinas
Photo Credit: Dowling Athletics Dowling will return to postseason baseball in 2015. That became official with their 1-0 victory in the second game of a DH today against St. Thomas Aquinas. Neither team could get much going on offense. Entering the bottom of the sixth, it was a scoreless pitcher’s duel between Kyle DeMeo and Matt Kostalos. Jon Cruz got the Golden Lions on the board with a bunt single to score Michael Richter to break the scoreless tie.That proved to be the only offense needed for DeMeo, who threw 6.1 shutout innings, allowing five hits, four walks while striking out five. He improved to 3-1 on the season.He was relieved by freshman Dennis Buckstein, who has been lights-out from the bullpen this season. He threw 2.2 shutout innings with one strikeout to record his thir...
Dowling Wins Three of Four From Mercy
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana 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. Le...
Dowling Continues the Home Cooking
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Don’t try to come into Dowling‘s kitchen and steal their cake. They won’t have any of it. They staved off Concordia’s ninth inning rally to hang on 5-4 for their ninth home win in 10 opportunities.David Montiverdi started for the Golden Lions and he was exceptional. He threw 8.1 innings, allowed three ER on 10 hits, walked nobody and struck out five. It was his first win of the season.After allowing an RBI double in the top of the first, Montiverdi settled down and was dominant.His offense backed him right away, tying it up in the bottom of the first and taking the lead in the second inning on an RBI single by Tyler Piccolo.RJ Going drove in two with a single in the fifth inning, scoring Anthony Ferrante and Rob Costanzo. They opened up t...
Dowling Rolls Over Adelphi
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Dowling did some spring cleaning at their home field today in the form of a 12-1 victory over fellow Division-II Long Island program Adelphi. The Golden Lions wasted no time putting up a three spot in the first. Dan Parisi singled home Jon Cruz, executed a double steal which scored RJ Going and then came around on a wild pitch by Michael Tarpey (4 IP, 6 R, 4 ER, 1 K). They added one in the second on an RBI ground by Adam Schuster. He also sparked another rally in the fifth inning when he drove in Cruz with an RBI triple. He came around to score on Going’s RBI single and he scored when Tyler Piccolo grounded out to 3b. Adelphi got on the board in the sixth inning with a sac fly by Tyler Murphy to cut the lead to 7-1. The Golden Lions broke it wide open wit...
