March 27, 2004

Box Score

Princeton, N.J. - The Stony Brook baseball team was swept by the Princeton Tigers in a double header Saturday afternoon at Clarke Field. The Seawolves fell 2-0 in the first game and Princeton rallied for a 4-3 victory in Game 2. Stony Brook falls to 8-9, while Princeton improves to 10-6 on the season.

Stony Brook was shut down in the opening game as Brett Bernard and Justin Michalek tallied the only hits off Princeton's Ross Ohlendorf, who struck out nine in a complete game shutout.

Ryan Claypool kept Princeton off the board until the fifth inning until Matt Becker took a 3-2 pitch with a runner on base over the left field wall for the games only runs.

Stony Brook jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of Game 2, as Justin Michalek singled and came around to score on Isidro Fortuna's first home run of the season.

Princeton cut SB's lead in half in the bottom of the first inning on an RBI single by Andrew Salini, but Jon Lewis kept the Tigers off the scoreboard for the next four innings. Princeton broke through in the sixth, taking a 3-2 lead on a bases-loaded walk and a sacrifice fly. The Tigers upped their lead to 4-2 in the seventh on an RBI single by Salini that scored B.J. Szymanski, who reached base with a one-out triple.

Stony Brook cut the lead to 4-3 in the eighth inning on Andrew Larsen's first home run of the season, but that would be as close as the Seawolves would get as Brian Kappel came in to record the final six outs and earn his fourth save of the season.

Fortuna and Larsen's home runs led the Seawolves attack, as all three runs came via the long ball. Lewis (2-2) took the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) on 11 hits in 7.0 innings of work.

The two teams will be back in action tomorrow morning at 11:30 a.m. for a double header at University Field.