Fisher's Bats Hard at Work Against Houghton; Stevens Beats John Jay
ST. JOHN FISHER v HOUGHTON
The St. John Fisher College baseball team took two from Houghton College on Friday afternoon at Dugan Yard. With the wins, Fisher improves to 20-12 on the season while the Highlanders fall to 13-15. The two teams will meet again at 1 p.m. tomorrow for another doubleheader.
In the first game, Sean Badger pitched a gem and just missed a no-hitter by allowing a hit with two outs in the seventh inning, the final inning of the game because of the doubleheader. Badger improved to 5-1 by throwing a complete-game, two-hit shutout with nine strikeouts.
At the plate, Fisher was just as impressive, as Ben Bostick also narrowly missed a milestone. Bostick led off the game with a double, and followed that up with a triple in the next inning, hitting the top of the left field fence, short of a home run by a few inches. By the third inning, Bostick added a single that drove in two runs and was just a homer short of the cycle. In the fifth, however, Bostick powered a ball to right field that got caught up in the wind for a fly out. He finished 3-for-4 with two runs scored and two RBI.
Bostick, Chris Roeder, Mike Fahy, Nick Flemister and Mike Roman all had multiple hit games for the Cardinals. Roeder, like Bostick, drove in two runs. Fahy finished with three hits as well, along with scoring three times and driving in a Fisher score. Sean Osterman and Brad Rush had the Cardinals’ other RBI, finishing with one apiece.
The bats were not shy in the second game for Fisher, as Roeder, Fahy and Rush all finishing with three hits each. Roeder scored three times while driving in a pair of RBI while Fahy crossed the plate twice and drove in another run. Rush finished with two RBI and a run scored while Flemister was 2-for-3 with two RBI and two runs scored.
Tim Coykendall had a deep double to left field to drive in two runs of his own. Fisher collected 15 hits in the game and gnereated run with 10 RBI.
Adam Pettinella earned the start and the win, moving to .500 on the year (2-2), throwing five solid innings, giving up three runs while scattering nine hits and fanning three Highlanders.
Kieran Murphy relieved Pettinella, coming in for the sixth and throwing the final two innings, giving up no hits or runs while taking down three Houghton batters on strikes.
STEVENS v JOHN JAY
The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team improved to 19-16 this season with a 16-4 rout of John Jay College on Friday night in Hoboken. Stevens recorded 17 hits in the victory that goes down as a road contest although the game was played at Dobbelaar Field.
Neither team posted a run until the Ducks did so in the third inning and would go on to score in five of the next six innings, including five runs in the sixth and sixth runs in the eighth to account for a majority of the Ducks' offense.
Three members of the team compiled three hits under the lights and combined for eight runs batted in. Senior
Michael Donovan (Frisco, Texas) led the way with a 3-for-5 effort that included two doubles, three RBI and two runs scored. Fellow senior
Tyler Courter (Glenwood, N.J.) also drove in three runs and scored twice with two doubles as part of a 3-for-6 night at the dish.
Junior
Dan Allen (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) was the third Duck with three hits in four trips to the plate. Allen also scored twice, picked up two RBI and stole a base in the win.
Freshman
Jonathan Toro (Sanford, Fla.) swiped four bags and scored twice in three official at bats, while classmate
John Sideris (Whitestone, N.Y.) was a perfect 2-for-2 at the plate with two runs scored off the bench. Another freshman,
Nicholas Sieber (Shrewsbury, Mass.) smacked a solo homerun in his lone hit of the ballgame.
Sophomore
Gregg Nickels (Simpsonville, S.C.) brought two runs home on a double off the bench, while junior
Curt Lowenstein (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) stole two bases with a base hit in four trips to the plate.
On the mound, freshman
Robert Robbins (Tallahassee, Fla.) lifted his record to 4-0 this season in six innings pitched. Robbins struck out seven hitters and scattered three hits with three earned runs in the outing. Freshman
Easton Obojkovits (Holmes, N.Y.) and senior
Craig Leopold (Edison, N.J.) combined to throw the final three innings in the game with three strikeouts.
Stevens is back on the diamond Saturday night at 6 p.m. for a doubleheader against Utica College. The two teams will square off on Sunday at 12 p.m. for Duck Country and Senior Day to wrap up Empire 8 Conference play for the Ducks.