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Box Score 2 Written by Joshua Soto (SJC-LI Sports Information)
Patchogue, NY| The St. Joseph's College (L.I.) baseball team swept a pair of games in its non-conference matchup against the City College of New York on Wednesday night at Gregg Alfano Field. The Golden Eagles are now 18-10 on the year and the Beavers fall to 4-30 on the season.
Game 1
The Beavers got the scoring started early when Rob Mandich singled home a run in the bottom of the first.
The Golden Eagles answered back in the top of the third, when Dan Campanelli came up to bat with the bases loaded with no outs, when he hit a sacrifice fly to right field to drive in a run.
Nick Girardi helped the Golden Eagles take the lead with an RBI to make the score 2-1.
Michael Ferrufino singled up the middle up to drive in Girardi to make it 3-1. Sullivan and Libertelli would drive in two runs each to extend SJC's lead 7-1. Gehring Montoro reached on error to drive in Libertelli for the eighth run of the inning for the 8-1 lead.
In the bottom of the fourth CCNY scored another run with a Joseph DeCarlo doubled to left field to score Mandich.
In the top of the fifth, with runners on first and third,
Ryan Walsh singled to score
Tyler Crafa. Montoro would later triple into the left center field gap to score in two additional runs for the 11-2 lead. Campanelli tacked on to the Golden Eagles runs column with a RBI ground out for the 12-2 lead.
In the bottom of the fifth, Michaek Siklas reached on a fielder's choice and two runners would score after a wild throw to inch back 12-4. The Beavers would drive in four more runs after a pair of RBI singles to cut their deficit by six 12-6.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Beavers tacked on two runs after a two-run triple by Siklas, to make the score 12-8.
In the top of the seventh, Anthony Aloisio and Walsh would both score on wild pitches to regain SJC's six run lead 14-8.
In the bottom of the ninth,
Adam Brisman came in to seal the Golden Eagles' 14-8 victory.
Nick Mannarino received the start for the first game, going three innings, striking out one batter and allowed two hits.
Austin Turner received his first collegiate win, coming in relief tossing five innings, striking out eight batters and giving up seven runs.
Gehring Montoro went 2-for-4 driving in three runs and scoring one, Andrew Libertelli went 2-for-3 driving in two runs and scoring three runs.
Game 2
Matt Burnett got the second game started with a leadoff single, he would then move into scoring position stealing second base. Anthony Schuler singled to left field to put runners on the corners for Mike Griffo who was credited with an RBI, Schuler would score on the play after an overthrown ball by the first baseman for the 2-0 lead.
In the bottom of the second, Burnett came up to bat with runners on the corners, Tyler Costa scored with as Burnett grounded out for the RBI. Schuler knocked in another run with his second hit of the contest as St. Joseph's took a 4-0 lead.
The Golden Eagles added an insurance run, in the bottom of the fifth, with Burnett scoring on a wild pitch for the 5-0 lead.
The Beavers were retired in order through five innings, but finally broke through the hit column, with a solo homerun from DeCarlo to cut their deficit by four (5-1).
Matt Hess came into the game in the seventh inning to close out the 5-1 victory for the Golden Eagles.
Nick Girardi struck out the first 11 batters in-a-row and was perfect through four innings. Brandon Lubrano tossed two innings and struck out four batters.
The Golden Eagles capped off their conference schedule with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 30 when they take on Purchase at 12 PM.
