Bomber Bats Batter Stevens To Earn Baseball Split
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The baseball team (8-9, 2-2 Empire 8) split Saturday's doubleheader with visiting Stevens Institute of Technology (5-16, 2-4 Empire 8) winning game two 13-3 after dropping the opener 8-5.
The Bombers pounded out 25 hits in the two seven-inning games, led by senior first baseman Trevor Wolf (Lansing/Freeville), who went seven for eight on the day. Wolf had a double, triple and two singles in the nightcap, driving in three runs after singling three times in the opener. He raised his season average from .339 to .406 and his career mark is now .370.
Sophomore Pat Lemmo (Westhill/Syracuse) earned his first career win, throwing 5.2 innings of one-hit relief in game two. Lemmo (1-0) entered the game with the bases loaded and Ithaca trailing 3-2. He got out of the inning with a strikeout and groundout and wound up facing two batters over the minimum, allowing just a single and a walk. Lemmo struck out two batters and induced 12 ground ball outs.
Ithaca exploded for nine runs over the first three innings of the nightcap. Wolf singled in a run in the first and freshman designated hitter Colby Gee (Dryden/Freeville) hit a sacrifice fly. After the Ducks scored three second-inning runs to take the lead, junior second baseman Matt Keller (Pelham/Pelham) singled in the tying run in the bottom of the inning before coming around to score on a wild pitch and Wolf and senior right fielder Matt Streich (East Greenwich/East Greenwich, R.I.) added run-scoring doubles. Streich finished with two hits and scored a pair of runs.
Freshman shortstop Tim LoCastro (Auburn/Auburn), who scored two runs, triped in a run in Ithaca's three-run third inning. Senior center fielder Rob Zappia (Greece Athena/Rochester) hit an RBI double and sophomore catcher Kevin Primm (North Babylon/North Babylon) hit a sacrifice fly.
Keller finished with two hits, two runs batted in and two scored. Primm hit one of Ithaca's three triples.
In game one, Ithaca rallied from a 5-0 deficit with a sixth-inning rally before Stevens scored three times in the top of the seventh. The Bombers, who were held to four hits over the first five innings, pounded out five hits and took advantage of two Duck errors to knot the score. Streich led off with a double and scored on a single by third baseman David Ahonen (Victor/Farmington), a graduate student. Two batters after Wolf singled, Gee tripled in a pair of runs. Ithaca scored the tying and go-ahead runs on a pair of two-out throwing errors.
Wolf had three of Ithaca's 11 hits. Ahonen singled twice.
The two teams wrap up their weekend series Sunday at Freeman Field. The doubleheader has been moved up to a noon start.
Game one box score
Game two box score