Stevens Sweeps; Elmira and SJFC Fall

Stevens Sweeps; Elmira and SJFC Fall

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STEVENS
Senior Marc Calleo delivered three hits in the opener to propel the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team to 5-1 and 4-1 victories over DeSales University on Wednesday.
 
Stevens is now 10-9 on the season while DeSales is 6-9.
 
Game 1: Stevens 5, DeSales 1
                                                                                       
The Bulldogs put a run on the board in the top of second after an RBI double to right by Jay Maletz plated Carlos Urena who had reached on an infield single and swiped second. Senior Peirce Marston settled down after that, not allowing another hit and only two more baserunners reached base.
 
The Ducks answered with a four-run rally in the top of the sixth. Calleo led off with a double to left center, moved to third on a groundout and then came around to score on a sacrifice fly by junior Jayson Yano. The visitors would then stage a two-out rally with freshman Alex Detweiler reaching on an infield single and sophomore Harrison Kayestole second as a pinch runner. Fellow sophomore Michael Mule' singled through the box to bring Kaye around to break the tie. Singles by senior Ryan Mannello and juniorTyler Bush loaded the bases, which brought up pinch hitter Nick Sieber. The junior broke out of his slump with a two-run single to right field to score Mannello and Mule'. Stevens tacked on an insurance run the following inning by capitalizing on a wild pitch to score Calleo.
 
Mule' had two hits while Calleo went 3-for-3 with two doubles and two runs scored. Marston tossed a seven inning complete game, surrendering three hits allowing just the one run while fanning six.
 
Chris Polaski started for the home team and threw five innings of three hit ball, walking two and striking out four to in the no-decision.
 
Game 2: Stevens 4, DeSales 1
 
In almost a carbon copy of game one, the nightcap saw the host Bulldogs score a run in the top of the second. This time, Urena reached an error and once again stole again to enter scoring position before getting knocked in by Colby Kulig's RBI single down the right field line. The Ducks knotted the game at one after a single by junior Jonathan Toro plated Bush who had hit a double down the right field line.
 
Stevens took the lead for good in the top of the fourth after Yano was hit by a pitch and came around to score on a Detweiler double. The guests doubled their lead the following inning after Yano drove in classmate Zeph Walters who had walked and moved into scoring position on a wild pitch.
 
DeSales threatened in the top of the sixth, after Urena and Kulig each slapped single through the right side and successfully executed a double steal with only one out. But junior Danny McIntyre got a little defensive support from senior Gregg Nickels who entered at third base as a defensive replacement earlier in the inning. Maletz lined a drive to third that Nickels snared and stepped on the bag for an unassisted double play. Stevens manufactured an insurance run in the top of the seventh after Toro led off with a single, stole second, moved to third on a groundout and finally came around on a sac fly by Walters.
 
Sophomore Bret Viola got the win in relief, tossing two and two thirds innings of one hit ball while allowing only one hit. Junior Ryan Patterson sealed the victory, tossing a perfect inning for his third save. Walters, Yano and Detweiler each had one RBI each, while Yano stole two bases.
 
Kulig had two hits for the Bulldogs.

ST. JOHN FISHER
The St. John Fisher College baseball team dropped an 11-1 decision at University of Rochester on Wednesday afternoon.   With the loss, Fisher falls to 6-11 on the year.
 
Rochester scored four runs in the bottom of the first to take the lead for good.   The Yellowjackets added one in the second, two in the fourth and three in the seventh to pull away and capitalized on five Fisher errors.
 
Fisher's lone run came in the fifth inning with Victor Konstantinovsky singling and scoring two batters later on a sacrifice fly from Mike Roman.
 
Six different players singled for Fisher with Malcolm Kelsey's triple in the second inning representing the team's lone extra-base hit of the day.
 
Nine different players pitched for Fisher. Troy Loparco, Terry Engels, Kevin Berge, TJ Polito and Ryan Smith each pitched scoreless innings for the Cardinals.


ELMIRA
Playing at Dunn Field for the first time in an official NCAA game, the Elmira College baseball team (0-6) would fall to visiting University of Pittsburgh at Bradford (1-6), 9-2. 
 
Elmira took an early 1-0 lead in today's game, as Hayden Rothenberg '17 scored on a Mike Burghardt '18 sacrifice fly in the bottom of the first inning.  The Elmira run was the definition of a manufactured run as the Soaring Eagles crossed home plate without registering as much as a single hit. 
 
Rothenberg was hit by a pitch to open the inning and would steal second base shortly after, his fifth stolen base of the season.  On Elmira's next at-bat, Bryce Plante '18 would ground out to the pitcher, but the groundout would advance Rothenberg to third base, putting him in scoring position. 
 
From there, Burghardt would hit a sacrifice fly to center field on a 3-2 count, scoring Rothenberg for the game's first run.
 
The Panthers responded the following inning with a one-out, two RBI single to centerfield by Bobby Sorokas.  Sorokas' two-run single would be all Pitt-Bradford would get as Elmira's starting pitcher, Zack Stone '18, shut down the side by forcing a fly out and striking out a Panther batter to end the inning.
 
Elmira's Joe Kidd '18 would lead off the bottom of the second inning and would see the count go to 0-2 in a hurry thanks to a called strike and a foul ball.  However, Kidd hung tough in his at-bat and eventually worked a walk.  After a pair of outs, and two failed pickoff attempts, Kidd would steal second base and reach third on a wild pitch.
 
With Kidd on third, Matt van Muelken '18 stepped to the plate and delivered an RBI infield single to even the game at 2-2.  van Muelken's infield single was a hot shot up the middle that Pitt-Bradford starting pitcher Ryan Chamberlain would put leather on, but the hard hit ball was too much as van Muelken beat-out the throw allowing Kidd to score.
 
The game remained tied at 2-2 through the third inning but a pair of two-out Pitt-Bradford singles would put the Panthers back on top 4-2.  From there, Elmira would be held to just two hits in the final six innings while Pitt-Bradford tacked-on five additional runs to seal the Panthers' 9-2 victory.
 
Elmira's Dylan Bellinger '17 had solid day at the plate, going 2-for-4 with a single and double.  Burghardt also had a noteworthy afternoon, going 1-for-3 with a double as well as an RBI sacrifice fly.
 
EC starting pitcher, Stone, tossed four full innings, registering four strikeouts while allowing four runs on 89 pitches. Nick Sampogna '18 came in for relief duty and would throw two-plus innings, allowing three hits and zero runs.