Two Splits on Sunday; Stevens Wins

Two Splits on Sunday; Stevens Wins

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UTICA v ITHACA
Ithaca College and Utica College split their doubleheader at Utica on Sunday with Ithaca claiming an 11-0 win in the opener, and Utica earning a 3-0 victory in the nightcap.

Ithaca 11, Utica 0
Juniors Benji Parkes and Ryan Contegni combined to toss a three-hit shutout, while the offense produced 19 hits.

Parkes picked up his second win of the season in seven solid innings of work. He gave up just two hits with two walks and struck out six Pioneers. Over his last two starts, Parkes has not given up an earned run over 16 innings with 15 strikeouts.

Contegni surrendered one hit over the final two innings of work and fanned two.

Junior Zach Cole and sophomore Trevor Thompson each drove in three runs at the plate, while senior Brian Burns had two RBI on a pinch hit single in the eighth inning.

Cole went 2-for-4 in the opener with a triple, walk and run scored. Thompson batted 2-for-6 with a double and two runs scored.

Six other Bombers collected two hits apiece in game one – seniors Christian Brown and Matt Connolly, junior Zach Pidgeon, sophomores Josh Savacool and Joey Randazzo, and freshman Domenic Boresta.

Ithaca scored in five of its nine at bats, highlighted by a five-run sixth inning.

Utica 3, Ithaca 0 – Game Two Final
Utica junior Ryan Watson (Deerfield, NY/Whitesboro) tossed a complete game shutout in game two to earn the Utica College baseball team the split on Sunday.

The Pioneers opened up the scoring first in game two with one run in the bottom of the first off a Brandon Thomas (West Winfield, NY/Mount Markham) RBI single.  Thomas Woodburn (West Islip, NY/West Islip) reached on a fielder's choice, stole second and then scored on Thomas's base knock through the right side.

UC worked another run in the third inning as Woodburn crossed the plate for the second time off a throwing error by the second basemen as Utica moved to a 2-0 lead.

Utica put up an insurance run in the sixth with back-to-back hits by Thomas Dinnen (Cortlandt Manor, NY/Walter Panas ) and Andrew Hobika, Jr. (Clinton, NY/Clinton) to edge a 3-0 lead headed into the final frame.  Dinnen singled up the middle and came all the way around to score on Hobika's triple down the right field line.

Watson improved to 2-1 on the mound as he tossed his second complete game of the season.  He allowed just five base runners on three hits and two base on balls and he remains atop the Empire 8 Conference in earned run average.
 

ST. JOHN FISHER v ELMIRA
The St. John Fisher College and Elmira College baseball programs split its doubleheader on Sunday.   Elmira won the first game, 1-0, before the Cardinals rallied in the bottom of the sixth for a 3-2 win over the Soaring Eagles in the nightcap.
 
Game One – Elmira 1, Fisher 0
Elmira and St. John Fisher battled it out in game one, a nine-inning game, as just one run decided the outcome of today's contest.  EC starting pitcher Conor Bawiec '18 showed how important he will continue to be for Elmira's pitching staff for the rest of the season as the Lebanon, PA native held the Cardinal offense scoreless while allowing just three hits in nine innings of work as he picked up his first collegiate win. 
 
Of the nine innings Bawiec pitched, only four innings saw Cardinal batters reach safely and only two of those innings had a Fisher runner in scoring position. 
 
Elmira's batters found themselves in a similar situation as Fisher's starting pitcher, Terry Engels, held the Soaring Eagles to just three hits.  However, the difference maker today was that Engel allowed extra base runners by hitting two Elmira batters and walking one other, a mistake that would prove to be very costly in the fifth inning.
 
Brian Wehmeyer '17 led-off the top of the fifth inning by reaching safely as he was hit by a pitch for a second time in today's game.  Coach Corey Paluga looked to put the pressure on Fisher's defense as he had Rochester, NY native,Brandon Davis '17, pinch run for Wehmeyer.
 
With no outs and Davis on first, Bryce Plante '18 reached safely on an infield single, putting a pair of runners on base forDennis Rudolph '18.  Rudolph would lay down a sacrifice bunt to advance Davis and Plante an extra base, putting both runners in scoring position for Nate Hanner '18.
 
Working with one out and the go-ahead run on third base, Hanner would put the ball in-play to the right side of Fisher's infield, forcing the Cardinal second baseman to make a split decision whether to make a play at the plate or register a guaranteed out at first.  To the delight of Elmira, a play at the plate did not occur as the Fisher second baseman threw Hanner out at first, but not before Davis crossed home plate to put the Soaring Eagles on top, 1-0.
 
The Cardinals nearly answered the in the bottom half of the fifth inning as they put runners on second and third with two outs.  However, Bawiec would get out of the inning unscathed as he got the Fisher's next batter to fly out to center field for the final out.
 
Over the next three innings, Bawiec allowed just one base runner as he kept Elmira's one-run lead intact.  However, in the bottom of the ninth, Bawiec would run into trouble as two Fisher batters reached safely on an error and a walk with just one out.
 
With runners on first and second, Bawiec looked to close the door on a potential Cardinal rally and did so by getting the next two batters to line out and ground out, sealing a 1-0 win for the Soaring Eagles, Elmira's second win of the season.

Terry Engels went the distance for the Cardinals, striking out six over nine innings, while allowing just three hits and one walk.  Fisher, however, only tallied three hits in the game, one from Victor Konstantinovsky, Matthew Cahill and Calvin Woolhiser.

Game Two – Fisher 3, Elmira 2
Trailing 2-1 with two outs in the bottom of the sixth, Fisher rallied to take the lead.  Back-to-back singles from Malcolm Kelsey and Mike Roman put the go-ahead run on base and freshman Tyler Troccia delivered, lining a two-run double to left.
Starting pitcher Marc Iseneker, who struck out a career-high 12 batters, while allowing just three hits, earned the win, going six innings, with Ryan Smith picking up the save.  After Iseneker walked the first two batters in the seventh, Smith saved the game, recording the final two outs with the bases loaded.

Sophomore Nate Roethel singled and scored Fisher's first run of the game.


STEVENS v Rutgers-Camden 
Junior Jayson Yano fired seven innings of one run ball while going 2-for-4 at the plate to help the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team knock off Rutgers University-Camden on Sunday.
 
The Ducks hit the 20 win mark for the fourth straight season, moving to 20-10 while Camden is now 17-12.
 
Stevens started off the scoring quickly, putting the first run on the board in the top of the first. Junior Jonathan Toro led off with a ground-rule double down the left field line and moved to third a sacrifice bunt by senior Gregg Nickels. Sophomore Zeph Walters came up and singled to center to plate Toro.
 
The visitors tacked on another run in the top of the fourth when junior Nick Sieber singled with one out, swiped second base and moved over to third on a single. Senior Ryan Mannello reached on a fielder's choice which was able to score Sieber from third to give the Ducks a 2-0 edge. Yano helped his own cause in the top of the fifth, when a bases-loaded infield single to the pitcher scored Toro who had led off with a single.
 
The Scarlet Raptors put up their only run of the afternoon on only one hit in the bottom of the seventh when Pedro Perez led off with a double. He moved to third on a groundout and home on another groundout, this time by Zach Ellin. The hosts threatened in the bottom of the ninth, but junior Ryan Patterson retired two straight hitters with men on first and second to set a school record with his eighth save of the season.
 
Toro went 3-for-5 with two runs scored while Walters and Yano each had two hits. Yano allowed six hits over his seven innings while fanning eight and not allowing a walk.
 
Joe Theckston had three hits for the Rutgers-Camden, while Kevin Terifay tossed four shutout innings in relief allowing just one hit.


CANTON v Alfred State
Jeremy Baez (Bronx, NY) produced five hits and 3 RBIs but the SUNY Canton baseball team dropped a pair of games, 3-2 and 9-7 to host Alfred State College on Sunday.
 
Game 1
Baez got the Roos on the board in the top of the first on an RBI single that scored Wilson Matos (Brooklyn, NY), who drew a one out walk and stole second earlier in the inning. Alfred State evened the game at one in the third inning.
 
Neither team would plate a run for the next five innings as the teams combined to leave 21 runners on base in the contest. In the second extra inning of the contest Baez came through with a n RBI single to score Seth Douglas (Reedsburg, WI).
 
With the game on the line Alfred State came through. After a lead-off walk Juan Rosa (Naguabo, Puerto Rico) came on and struck out the first batter. He then hit three consecutive batters as the Pioneers tied the game at 2-2. With one down and the bases still loaded the Roos got the lead runner on a force out at the plate but a two out single gave the hosts a 3-2 victory.
 
Rosa got the loss on the hill tossing two-thirds of an inning. He struck out one batter.
 
Game 2
The Roos scored three runs in the third and fourth innings to lead 3-2 midway through the fourth. Matos scored in the third when Douglas reached on an error. Two more runs came across in the next inning when Chris Roenbeck(Plattsburgh, NY) reached on another Pioneer error.
 
Alfred State had a big bottom of the fourth bringing across seven runs to open up a 9-3 advantage after four. SUNY Canton chipped away at the lead with three in the fifth and one in the sixth. Brandon Welch (Constable, NY) scored ona wild pitch and Christian Nazario-Cruz (Naguabo, Puerto Rico) plated Travis Schnidler on an RBI triple to right. Matos would bring home Nazario-Cruz in the ensuing at-bat with a single to left. Baez drove in his third run of the day to scoreMatt Hall (Palmyra, NY) in the sixth.
 
Robbie Osterer (Ottawa, ON) took the loss sprinkling five hits and five earned runs over 3.2 innings. He struck out three and walked four.