Baseball Pitcher – Elmira
Nick Sampogna, Junior – Verplanck, NY/Hendrick Hudson
 
Nick Sampogna '18 earned the victory on the mound for Elmira in Saturday's 10-4 victory over Utica College in EC's home- and conference-opener at Dunn Field. He finished with a game-high nine strikeouts and allowed just one run on two hits in 5.0 innings of work. After giving up the lone run in the top of the first, he allowed only one batter to reach base safely on an infield single over his remaining four innings. The junior righty set down the Pioneers in order in the second, third, and fifth innings, and in both the third and fifth, he struck out the side. Sampogna's nine strikeouts tied his career high, and he did so on just 69 pitches.