Baseball Sweeps Purchase in Final Skyline Series
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Purchase St. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | X | 7 | 10 | 1 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
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Purchase St. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 1 |
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | X | 10 | 13 | 2 |
Patchogue, NY| The St. Joseph's University (L.I.) baseball team wrapped up its Skyline Conference schedule with a doubleheader sweep of SUNY Purchase at Gregg Alfano Field on Saturday afternoon.
The wins move the Golden Eagles to 18-11 on the season with a 15-5 Skyline mark. The Panthers slide to 11-21 overall, 7-11 Skyline.
Game One: SJLI 7, Purchase 1
The Golden Eagles got started early with a run in the bottom of the first. Designated hitter John Lynch (3-for-3, R, 3RBI) singled through the right side scoring Paul Gugliuzzo (2-for-4, 2R, RBI) who bunted for a base hit earlier in the inning.
A Purchase field error allowed for RBI singles from Ryan Decoursey (1-for-3, R, 2RBI) and Lynch in the bottom half of the third extending the SJC lead to3-0.
SJLI gave one back in the top of the fourth, but sent eight Golden Eagles to the plate in the fifth highlighted by a Lynch RBI triple to center and put the game out of reach at 7-1.
St. Joseph's starter Kevin Czeczotka (W, 4-2) picked up his fourth win of the season allowing just one unearned run on three hits while striking out five in six innings of work. Ryan Foran tossed a scoreless seventh with one strikeout.
Purchase's Myles Scarry was tagged with the loss allowing seven runs on 10 hits in a complete-game effort.
Game Two: SJLI 10, Purchase 3
After two scoreless innings, the Golden Eagles batted around for seven runs on seven hits including a two-run home run from catcher Hermes Abreu (1-for-3, R, 2RBI). A sac fly off the bat of Brian Forbes (2-for-4, R, 2RBI) and a solo blast from Decoursey (4-for-4, 2R, 2RBI) widened the gap to 9-0 after four innings.
Purchase got on the board with an unearned run in the top of the fifth.
SJLI got the run back in the seventh via a sac fly from John Thatcher (RBI) that scored Nick Vicino (2-for-5, 2R, RBI) who doubled to start the inning, 10-1. The Panthers pushed a couple of runs across in the top of the ninth, but reliever Anthony Cinquemani retired the final two outs via the strikeout to secure the 10-3 victory.
SJLI's Charles Aurandt (W, 4-0) got the win allowing just one hit with five strikeouts.
The Golden Eagles close out the regular season on Sunday, May 1 when they host Lehman College at 12:00 pm.
