April 14, 2002

Final Stats

Stony Brook, N.Y. - Dwayne Whitaker's homer in the bottom of the seventh inning made a winner out of righthanded hurler Anthony Stutz as Stony Brook (14-13, 4-4) posted a 2-1 victory in game one of a doubleheader against Binghamton. Binghamton (12-21, 5-3) bounced back in the nightcap behind the strong pitching of Mike Weglinski to earn an 8-2 win and a split of the weekend series with the Seawolves.

Game one was a pitcher's duel between Stutz and Binghamton's Jacob Thiel. The Seawolves got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third when Lee Lipschutz doubled to lead off the bottom of the inning. Two batters later, R.J. Etzel singled him home for a 1-0 lead. The Bearcats evened the score at one in the top of the fourth on a T.J. Kowalchuk RBI single that scored Tyler McGonigal.

Both pitchers then settled down and pitched scoreless baseball until the bottom of the seventh. Whitaker led off the Seawolves' seventh by driving a Thiel fastball over the center field fence for his sixth homerun of the season to help Stutz improve to 2-2 on the year. Stutz went seven innings, giving up one run on five hits and striking out seven. Thiel was the hard luck loser, giving up two runs on four hits in six innings of work.

Binghamton wasted no time in jumping on the Seawolves in game two. The Bearcats touched up starter Dan Hoffman for two runs in the first before Hoffman was lifted after only retiring one batter. Ray Zimmerman came on to put out the Binghamton rally to keep the score at 2-0 but a Kowalchuk RBI double off Zimmerman in the third scored Tony Berube for a 3-0 advantage. Rich Graham got the Seawolves back in the game in the bottom of the inning, blasting a two-run homer over the left field fence that cut the BU lead to 3-2.

That would be as close as Stony Brook would get as Binghamton added two runs in the fifth and put the game away in the sixth by scoring three runs with two outs. A Shawn Collyer homer was followed by a two-run double by Kyle Loucks later in the inning to extend the lead to 8-2. Weglinski went the distance for Binghamton yielding only two runs while scattering seven hits and striking out four. Tim Collar finished 2-3 at the plate with three runs batted in and Kowalchuk finished with three hits and two RBI.

Stony Brook is back in action on Tuesday when it travels to Wagner. First pitch is 3:30 p.m.