Malcolm Nachmanoff
TCU Ends Stony Brook’s Season With 8-3 Final
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Stony Brook Sea Wolves were primed to make a season-saving comeback against No. 1 seed TCU, but a three-run home run in the fifth inning by Evan Skoug broke the game open at 5-1 and effectively put a nail in the coffin of the 2015 season.The Sea Wolves mustered four hits in the game–two by Malcolm Nachmanoff and two by Toby Handley, very uncharacteristic for a team that hits .296 cumulatively.TCU starter Brian Howard, a 6’9 sophomore, struggled with his command. He walked four batters and allowed two hits over 4.1 innings. His reliever, Drew Gooch, was put in to face Cole Peragine in with two on in the fifth inning. He walked Peragine and was taken out in favor of Preston Guillory. Handley smacked a two-run hit to make the score 5-3.From that poi...
Stony Brook Erases 7-0 Deficit, Storms Back to Win America East
Photo Credit: Greg M. Cooper For the first time since the magical run of 2012, the Stony Brook Sea Wolves have won the America East title.It took an amazing comeback on Saturday, too as they defeated UMBC 16-11. They trailed 7-0 in the first inning after the bats of UMBC roughed up Ryley MacEachern.In the ensuing inning they scored a tournament record 11 runs thanks to RBI hits by Malcolm Nachmanoff and Toby Handley and a slew of walks and errors.The scoring wasn’t done after that. UMBC answered with two in the bottom of the second and that’s when Tim Knesnik came in to put out the fire. He ended up recording the victory, throwing four innings of relief while allowing three runs on six hits and four walks with two strikeouts. In the fourth, the Sea Wolves tacked on two more on ...
Stony Brook Wins Wild One over NYIT
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 ru...
Seven-Run Eighth Propels Stony Brook
Photo Credit: Stony Brook Athletics Trailing 6-5 in the eighth inning, the Stony Brook Sea Wolves exploded for seven runs against Central Connecticut State and held on to win 12-6 for their 20th win of the season.CCSU took an early 1-0 against Sea Wolves starter Nicholas DiEva. Stony Brook got even in the second on an RBI single by Jeremy Giles.They took the lead in the third inning on an fielder’s choice and an error off the bat of Jack Parenty. Stony Brook added two in the fifth on an RBI single by Robert Chavarria and double by Malcolm Nachmanoff. In the bottom of the sixth, CCSU got even with a four-run inning off reliever Aaron Pinto, with the big blow coming on a two-run double off the bat of Nick Garland. In the eighth inning, the Sea Wolves batted around and scored seven runs...
Stony Brook Tops Sacred Heart 8-4
Written by Jim Ferchland Photo Credit: Jim Ferchland The Stony Brook Seawolves have struggled 18 games into the season–as they sit at 8-10. However, the Sacred Heart Pioneers have an abundance of work to do as they sit at the bottom of the standings at 1-14. Stony Brook and the cold rain were not doing the Pioneers any favors as Stony Brook took down Sacred Heart 8-4 in 6 ½ innings. The game was shortened due to inclement weather. Stony Brook’s junior right-handed pitcher Tim Knesik made his fifth start on the mound today. He struggled through 1.1 innings and was relieved by Nick DiEva, who received the win with 2.2 shutout innings of relief. Sacred Heart’s six-foot nine-inch junior pitcher Connor Landers only pitched one inning and it was a sure nightmare. He was lit up by the Sea...
