Baseball Takes Two from Farmingdale, 4-1, 4-2

Farmingdale, NY| The St. Joseph's College baseball team picked up a pair of Skyline Conference wins over Farmingdale State College on Saturday afternoon.

The Golden Eagles took game one 4-1 before completing the sweep with a 4-2 win in the nightcap and improve to 8-5 on the season with a 7-4 conference mark. The Rams fall to 8-5 overall, 8-3 Skyline.

Game One: SJCLI 4, FSU 1

The Golden Eagles struck first with a run in the top of the fourth. Anthony Raucci (0-for-3, R) worked a walk with one out prompting FSU to make a pitching change and the first batter Joe Wolf saw was Ryan Decoursey (2-for-4, R, RBI) who belted a double to the right-center game allowing Raucci to score.

The Rams managed to tie the score when pinch-runner Peter Del Gals scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the fifth.

The Golden Eagles took advantage of a Farmingdale defensive miscue in the top of the sixth that set up a 2 RBI single by James McAleavey (1-for-3, 2RBI) putting SJC back ahead 4-1.

St. Joseph's tacked on another insurance run in the top of the seventh and Kevin Czeczotka retired the Rams in order to secure the win.

Czeczotka earned his second complete-game win allowing just one run on three hits with eight strikeouts.

FSU's Wolf was tagged with the loss allowing two runs on three hits with a pair of strikeouts in 2.1 innings of relief.

Game Two: SJCLI 4, FSU 2

SJC attacked FSU starter Joe Marino early for two runs in the top of the first. Paul Gugliuzzo (2-for-5, 2R) doubled to start the game and came into score on an RBI single up the middle from Phil Krapata 1-for-4, 2R, RBI). Two batters later, Charles Rainone (1-for-3, RBI) drove a double to center bringing home Krapata for the 2-0 lead.

Farmingdale got a run back in the bottom on the second when Nolan White doubled in Vincent Napolitano who doubled to start the inning,

More Farmingdale defensive blunders led to a two-run top of the fifth for the Golden Eagles to widen the gap, 4-1.

The next three innings went scoreless before FSU's Peter Minneci singled in Bobby Pollock to move the game to its final 4-2.

SJC's Daniel Deckert improved to 2-3 on the season allowing just one run on four hits with two strikeouts in seven innings of work, Elliot Robles provided an inning of scoreless relief before giving way to Anthony Cinquemani while picked up his second save of the year.

The Golden Eagles will now host the Rams for a pair at Gregg Alfano Field on Sunday, April 18. Game times are slated for 11:00 am and 1:30 pm.