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ST. JOHN FISHER
The nationally-ranked St. John Fisher College baseball program extended the nation's longest winning streak to 12 games with a convincing 21-5 win over D'Youville College on Wednesday afternoon at Houghton College.
Fisher jumped out to a 10-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning. The Cardinals used eight different pitchers and allowed seven hits. Freshman
Marc Iseneker was the pitcher of record for the Cardinals, working two scoreless innings and raising his record to 2-0 on the year.
Jacob Taylor,
Mike Komendowski,
Kevin Berge,
Dominick Pisciotto and
Ryan Trauger each pitched scoreless innings.
Cody Wiktorski was 3-for-4 at the plate and needed just a home run for the cycle. He drove in three runs and scored twice.
Joe Simmons singled twice and tallied three RBI.
Freshman
Malcolm Kelsey went 2-for-3 with three runs scored and three RBI.
Brad Rush picked his eighth double of the season, and 45th of his career to tie the Fisher all-time record. He also scored two runs and knocked in two more.
Chris Roeder doubled in a run in the first and scored twice.
Mike Fahy,
Cam Allen and
Nick Flemister each scored two runs, while Fahy swiped two bags.
Nate Roethel picked up his first collegiate hit – a two-run homer over the fence in right field – in the sixth inning. The Honeoye Falls native also doubled in the eighth.
Sophomore
Chris Dugan added two hits, while freshman
Frank Carnevale also singled.
Calvin Woolhiser also went 2-for-2 with a single and a double.
STEVENS
The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team put together a close to perfect all-around performance to come away with a 6-1 victory over Ramapo College on Wednesday afternoon at Dobbelaar Field. With the win, Stevens is now 10-4 overall and Ramapo is also 10-4.
Ramapo drew two walks in the first inning and had runners at the corners with two outs, but a diving catch by junior
Brian Hennelly (Holbrook, N.J.) on a sinking line drive ended the threat.
The Ducks placed their first two batters on with back-to-back singles from sophomore
Nicholas Sieber (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Hennelly. After a walk to senior
Dan Allen(Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) loaded the bases with no outs, sophomore
Jayson Yano (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) stroked an RBI single off the right-centerfield wall to bring home Sieber for the first run of the game. Stevens' next three hitters were unable to produce another run and the bases were left loaded.
In the top of the third, Ramapo attempted to score from second on a base hit to left field but junior
Ryan Mannello (Staten Island, N.Y.) threw out the Roadrunner at the plate to preserve the shutout.
Ramapo had another opportunity to tie the ballgame up in the sixth after loading the bases with two outs. Junior
Matt Buccheri (Little Silver, Md.) worked out of the jam with a strikeout to keep Stevens ahead, 1-0.
In the bottom half of the sixth, Allen staked the Ducks to a 2-0 lead with a line drive homerun to right field to begin the inning.
Stevens made its third spectacular defensive play in the seventh as freshman
Michael Mule' (Boca Raton, Fla.) entered the contest in center and immediately made an impact. Ramapo's Ian Osterman drilled a one-hopper off the right-center wall and tried to leg out a double, but Mule' denied the extra base hit with a perfect throw.
The Ducks strung together three runs in the seventh to go ahead, 5-0, after senior
Curt Lowenstein (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) reached on an error to start the rally. Sieber then singled and both runners moved up on a wild pitch. Hennelly drove in Lowenstein with a base hit to left and then Allen doubled to the gap to push Sieber home. With the bases loaded, sophomore pinch hitter
Tyler Bush (Bristol, Conn.) walked to bring home classmate
Thomas Sheridan (Staten Island, N.Y.), who entered as a pinch runner.
Mannello threw another runner out in the eight at first base after he moved to right field for the third outfield assist for the Ducks and fourth outstanding play of the game by the outfielders.
Stevens tacked on one more in the eighth on an RBI single from junior
Gregg Nickels (Simpsonville, S.C.) that plated freshman
Harrison Kaye (North Brunswick, N.J.).
Ramapo scored once in the ninth on a ground-rule double to left field.
Freshman
Zeph Walters (Diamond Bar, Calif.) started the game for Stevens and tossed four innings. Walters did not factor into the decision but struck out four batters and gave up four hits. Junior
Matt Buccheri (Little Silver, N.J.) picked up the win in three innings of relief with four punch outs.
Senior
Mark Poinsett (Ocean Gate, N.J.) fanned two in an inning of work and junior
Gary Boardman (Staten Island, N.Y.) tossed the final inning of the game and recorded two strikeouts.
In all, the four hurlers combined for 12 strikeouts which is the eighth time this season that the Stevens staff has eclipsed 10-plus strikeouts.
ITHACA
The Ithaca College baseball team picked up two more victories Wednesday afternoon in a doubleheader against Oneonta at Cornell's Hoy Field. Ithaca won the first game by a 9-4 final score with a five-run sixth-inning rally, and then scored three times in the bottom of the seventh capped by a game-winning home run for a 7-5 victory in the second game. Ithaca improved to 11-4 overall and will begin Empire 8 conference play this weekend at Stevens Institute of Technology with doubleheaders Saturday and Sunday.
Game One
The Bombers trailed early after Oneonta scored three times in the top of the third. Ithaca pulled one run back in the bottom of the inning after
Christian Brown tripled and
Matt Connolly followed with an infield single that brought home Brown. Two more runs scored in the Ithaca fourth to tie the score 3-3. Connolly doubled down the left field line to bring in
Jared Amory and
Cooper Belyea.
Ithaca took the lead in the fifth on a throwing error in the infield that allowed
Colby Gee to score from third base, but Oneonta tied it again in the top of the sixth. The decisive five-run rally in the bottom of the sixth included just three hits, two of which were RBI doubles by
Tim Henry and
Zach Cole.
Jimmy Wagner picked up the victory in relief of
Ryan Contegni, who pitched three effective innings, allowing two hits and two runs, one of which was earned. Ithaca pitchers issued six walks and hit two batters. Connolly and
Luke Stark had two hits each for the Bombers.
Game Two
Ithaca saw a two-run lead turn into a one-run deficit after a seventh-inning rally by Oneonta gave the Red Dragons a 5-4 lead, but the Bombers responded with three runs in the bottom of the seventh, including
Colby Gee's game-winning two-run homer of the left-field fence. That gave Ithaca its seventh-straight victory.
The last-inning rally was necessary after Oneonta scored three times on a bases-clearing triple in the top of the inning. Ithaca responded with a leadoff triple by
Zach Cole, followed one out later by an RBI single from
John Stanley to tie the game. After a strikeout, Gee's blast was the game-winner.
John Prendergast pitched the final two outs of the top of the seventh, both by strikeout, which ended the Oneonta rally and earned him the victory in relief. He is 5-0 on the year. Freshman starter
Logan Barer was effective after yielding one run on five hits in the first two innings. He ended up pitching five and two-thirds, with one walk and three strikeouts.
Ithaca scored its early runs in a four-run third inning. Steven Yanchus,
Christian Brown and
John Stanley all had singles and
Colby Gee had an RBI double in that inning. Stanley finished the game 3-for-4 with a run scored and two RBIs. Yanchus and Gee had two hits each.
HOUGHTON
Houghton baseball dropped its sixth-straight game, 16-9, to D'Youville at home on Wednesday.
The loss is the team's sixth-straight, all coming at the Highlanders' new field at the Kerr-Pegula Athletic Complex.
Houghton jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first. Mike Knapp grounded out to dirve in Chris McKay, before Brett Rapan doubled to score Mike Kerr.
Whatever momentum and home field advantage the Highlanders had was quickly gone in the top of the third. The Highlanders surrendered six runs on four hits and three errors to go down 6-2. The lead grew to 11-2 in the top of the fourth as the Spartans tallied six more hits and five more runs, then added two more runs in the top of the fifth to go up 13-2.
Houghton was able to pull two runs back in the bottom of the fifth. After Enrico Sukhdeo tripled, Chris McKay drove him in with a single and later scored on a wild pitch. The Spartans scored two more in the top of the sixth to go up 16-4, but Houghton scored one run each in the sixth, seventh and eighth and then scored twice in the bottom of the ninth for the final margin.
The Highlanders produced eight hits, but gave up 18 to the Spartans. Sukhdeo led Houghton with a 3-for-5 performance. McKay, Hodge and Cornell each scored two runs. The Highlanders were plagued by six errors on the night.
Alex Gowing started and went three innings, giving up six runs on five hits. Kyle Flemington pitched two innings, giving up seven hits and seven runs. Chad Muise went the final four innings, with six hits and three runs given up.