Kyle Garrison
Disappointing Day for Three Division-II Teams
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky Friday was a bitter day for Adelphi, LIU Post and Dowling, who all had their seasons end prematurely in the conference tournament. After upsetting the No. 1 seed Pace, Adelphi was defeated on Thursday and faced elimination on Friday. They staved off elimination with a 7-2 victory against New Haven in which John Thompson threw 6.1 strong innings to record his second win of the season. John Fogarty had three hits and Rob Vani drove in two runs. They advanced to face Stonehill for the second time in as many days and it did not go well. They were defeated 14-3 with 13 of those runs coming in the third, fourth and fifth innings. Kyle Garrison suffered his fourth loss of the season, he threw two innings and allowed six ER. The offense smacked 10 hits but couldn&...
Tyler Murphy’s Two-Run Double Gets Adelphi Back on Track
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Down 3-0 in the seventh inning to NE-10 rival Southern Connecticut State and staring at a fifth consecutive loss, the Adelphi Panthers mounted a four-run comeback capped by a two-run eighth inning double by Tyler Murphy to turn disaster into triumph.Eric Hassell and Kory Cassara began the eighth-inning rally with consecutive singles to set the stage for a sac bunt. Ray Triano got it down, and the third baseman threw it away which allowed Hassell to score the Panther’s second run.Murphy came up as a pinch-hitter and he promptly ripped a double to right-center field to give the Panthers the lead. Senior Mike Cranston came on and immediately was faced with thwarting a rally. He allowed a lead off single and the next batter bunted him into scoring position. Th...
Pace Uses Two Huge Innings to Down Adelphi 11-1
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHko9YOIjxs]The good news is the Adelphi pitching staff held Pace scoreless in the final seven innings. The bad news is they allowed 11 in the first two innings for the team’s second consecutive blowout loss.Pace put up five in the first against Panther’s starter Kyle Garrison and six in the second off a combination of him and Michael Ceparano. They got outplayed in all three facets of the game, with the offense putting up one run on seven hits while the defense committed three costly errors–a huge one on a pop fly in the first inning by Tyler Murphy and another one a botched ground ball by Mike Stack. Pace batted around in the first two innings and Cf Andrew Coffey had three hits, scored two runs and drove in two. John Kukura also ...
