Baseball Crushes Yeshiva in Doubleheader, 10-0 & 21-0

Patchogue, N.Y. - The St. Joseph's Golden Eagles (3-8, 2-0 Skyline) returned home from their winless Florida trip on Sunday and scored 31 runs over two games to sweep the Yeshiva Maccabees (0-9, 0-4 Skyline), 10-0 and 21-0.

Anthony Bonilla (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) led off with a double in the first for the Eagles and Joe Liberatore (Blue Point, N.Y./Bayport-Blue Point) drove him in with a double of his own. The Eagles tacked on another run in the second but were held in check until the fifth inning when Liberatore led off with a triple and was brought home by a Joe Calabrese (Westbury, N.Y./W.T. Clarke) double. Dan Diblasi (Lindenhurst, N.Y./Lindenhurst) drove in Calabrese with a base hit to center to put the Eagles up 4-0. Liberatore got up to bat again in the 8^th inning and led off the inning with a base hit. The Eagles had two men on and no outs when Calabrese drove in Liberatore. Another run scored on an error by the catcher to extend the lead to six. With two outs and two men on Thomas Rubinstein (Patchogue, N.Y./Patchogue-Medford) tripled to right center, clearing the bases. Rubinstein scored on a wild pitch ending the game, 10-0.

Robert Hyde (West Babylon, N.Y./West Babylon) was spectacular for the Eagles pitching six innings and giving up three hits with eight strikeouts. Steven Szobesky (Seaford, N.Y./Seaford) pitched two scoreless innings, surrendering one hit and striking out four. Calabrese went 3-4 with 2 RBIs and two runs scored and Liberatore went 3-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.

The Eagles didn't show mercy in game two for Yeshiva as they loaded the bases in the bottom of the first but failed to score - the only scoreless inning for the Golden Eagles in the game but in the second inning, the Eagles scored five runs on five hits.  After shutting down the Yeshiva offense once again, the Eagles loaded the bases in the third inning with nobody out and James Terry (East Meadow, N.Y./Kellenberg) cleared the bases with a triple into the right centerfield gap. The Eagles tacked on another run on a Calabrese sacrifice fly to extend the lead to nine. SJC plated one in the fourth, eight in the fifth and three in the sixth completing the 21-0 shutout.

Diblasi was nearly perfect for the Eagles on the mound surrendering just one hit over five scoreless innings with six strikeouts. Jonathan Beekman (Ridge, N.Y./Longwood) pitched two hitless innings with two strikeouts for the Eagles. Nick Lacascio (East Meadow, N.Y./East Meadow) went 3-4 with 2 RBI's, four runs scored and a walk.  Terry went 2-3 with 3 RBI's and Mike Aloisio (Westbury, N.Y./W.T. Clarke) went 2-2 with 2 RBI's and three runs scored.

The Eagles travel to take on Kean this Thursday at 3:30 p.m.