Baseball Takes Two from Maritime, 10-3, 14-9
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 16 | 0 |
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Maritime (N.Y.) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 11 | 3 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 1 |
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Maritime (N.Y.) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
Throggs Neck, NY| The St. Joseph's University (L.I.) baseball team picked up a Skyline Conference sweep over SUNY Maritime on the road on Saturday afternoon. The Golden Eagles breezed by the Privateers 10-3 in game one before claiming a 14-9 victory in the nightcap.
SCLI improves 15-8 on the season and sits atop the Skyline standings at 13-3 in conference play. Maritime falls to 19-10 overall, 10-6 Skyline.
Game One: SJLI 10, Maritime 3
A two-run blast off the bat of Ryan Decoursey (3-for-3, 3R, 3 RBI) put the Golden Eagles on the board in the top of the first. An RBI double from Maritime's Ryan Rockhill cut the lead in half at 2-1.
Following two scoreless innings, back-to-back solo home runs from Brian Forbes (3-for-4, 3R, RBI) and Decoursey started the top of the fourth pushing the lead to 4-1.
Three runs in each the top of the sixth and seventh put the game out of reach for the Privateers despite plating two in the bottom of the seventh.
SJLI starter Kevin Czeczotka (3-2) earned the win by going six innings and allowing just two runs on four hits and striking out nine. Maritime's Shane Sullivan was tagged with the loss after surrendering seven runs on seven hits with seven Ks in 5.2 innings.
Game Two: SJLI 14, Maritime 9
Maritime was first to score courtesy of a based loaded walk in the opening frame. But the Golden Eagles responded with three runs in the top of the third after three singles loaded the bases and with two outs, Forbes (1-for-5, R, RBI) sent a base hit up the middle scoring Joe Sanguedolce (2-for-4, 2R, RBI). A batter later, Decoursey (2-for-5, 2R, 2 RBI) singled to left pushing across two runs.
After the Privateers evened the score with a two-run bottom half of the third, SJLI's Hermes Abreu (4-for-4, 2 R, 4 RBI) belted a two-run shot to right putting the visitors ahead 5-3. That lead was quickly erased in the bottom half of the fourth when Maritime's Austen Bishop knocked a grand slam down the right-field line chasing Golden Eagles starter Charles Aurandt from the game trailing 7-5.
Three unearned runs in the top of the fifth put St. Joseph's back on top, 8-7, before a six-run sixth inning highlighted by a three-run dinger from Paul Gugliuzzo (2-for-6, 2R, 3 RBI) created some distance for the Golden Eagles, 14-7.
Maritime pushed single runs across in the seventh and the eighth, but SJLI held on for the 14-7 win.
SJLI's Michael Manzolillo improved to 3-0 on the season after allowing three runs on five with four strikeouts in 3.2 innings of relief. Jack Kelly picked his first save with two scoreless innings out of the pen.
The Golden Eagles return to Gregg Alfano Field when they host the College of Mt. St. Vincent on Sunday, April 24. Game one is set to start at 11:00 am.
