Baseball Wins Twice at Maritime

Throggs Neck, NY| The St. Joseph's College baseball team took two Skyline Conference wins on the road at SUNY Maritime on Saturday afternoon. The Golden Eagles scored early en route to a 10-4 win in game one before exploding for 15 hits in the 13-1 run-rule shortened game in the nightcap.

The Golden Eagles improve to 13-7 on the season with a 12-5 conference record. The Privateers slide to 11-8 overall, 8-5 Skyline.

Game One: SJCLI 10, Maritime 4

St. Joseph's sent eight Golden Eagles to the plate in the opening frame highlighted by a two-run homerun from Phil Krpata (2-for-3, 2R, 4RBI) and jumped ahead 5-0.

Krpata struck again in the second with two RBI double in the left-center gap. A couple of bases-loaded walks followed producing two more runs and extending the SJC lead to 9-0.

Maritime got on the run with a pair of runs in the bottom half of the second moving the score to 9-2.

Both teams went quietly in the middle innings before a Ryan Decoursey (1-for-3, R, 2RBI) sac fly scored Justin Stromski (0-for-0, R)who walked earlier to start the sixth. The Privateers answered with a run of their own in the bottom half of the inning when Phil Russo doubled down the leftfield line scoring Freddy Forglone who reached on an error.

Maritime went on the string together four hits in the bottom of the seventh to put up their final run of the game but ultimately came up short as SJC came away with the 10-4 win.

SJC's Kevin Czeczotka earned his fourth win of the season after allowing three runs off four hits with six strikeouts before giving way to Thomas Crispyn allowed one run on three hits with a K in an inning of relief.

Maritime's Niko Concha suffered the loss allowing nine runs on six hits with two strikeouts.

Game Two: SJCLI 13, Maritime 1

The second game of the doubleheader opened up quietly going scoreless through the first two innings. The Golden Eagles managed to score first courtesy of RBI singles from Charles Rainone (3-for-5, R, 2RBI) and Decoursey (3-for-4, R, 4RBI). The Privateers took advantage of an SJC throwing error and got on the board with an unearned run, 2-1.

St. Joseph's widened the gap after a two-run home run off the bat of Tyler Sanderson (4-for-5, 4R, 3RBI) went over the leftfield fence. Decoursey blasted his own two-run tater to right-center moving the score to 6-1.

Sanderson, Rainone, and Decoursey all knocked in runs in the top of the sixth before a three-run home run from Paul Gugliuzzo (1-for-2, 3R, 3RBI) in the seventh capped the scoring at 13-1.

Daniel Deckert went the distance allowing just one run on two hits while striking out five.

Maritime's Chris Simone took the loss allowing four runs on six hits with three Ks in four innings of work.

The two face each other again in the final match-up of the regular season on Sunday, May 2 at Gregg Alfano Field. Game time are set for 11:00 am and 1:30 pm.