Feb. 26, 2005

Box Score

Spartanburg, S.C. - The Stony Brook baseball team opened the 2005 season by splitting a doubleheader at Wofford's Russell C. King Field on Saturday afternoon. The games could not have contrasted more as the Seawolves pounded out 20 hits in a 13-4 Game 1 victory before almost being no-hit in a 2-0 loss in Game 2. With the split, the Seawolves stand at 1-1 on the season while Wofford moves to 4-7.

Stony Brook jumped all over Wofford in the opener, plating five two-out runs in the second inning and never looking back. A two-run double off the wall in center by Andrew Larsen plated the first two runs before Larsen came around to score on a single up the middle by Chris Sipp. Matt Devins capped the inning with a two-run homer to leftcenter.

Stony Brook scored three times in the fourth to extend its lead to 8-0. Sipp had another RBI base hit before Nick Theoharis contributed a two-run single. A Sipp run-scoring single in the sixth preceded a two-run homer by Isidro Fortuna as the Seawolves built their lead to 11-0.

Fortuna, Devins and Tom Pennino all homered to highlight the 20-hit attack as Sipp and Fortuna each tallied 4 hits. Jon Lewis (1-0) picked up the win for the Brook, throwing six shutout innings while striking out four.

It was a different story in Game 2 as Wofford starter Austin Redwine was three outs away from a no-hitter before a leadoff single in the top of the seventh by Larsen ruined his bid.

The Terriers broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the fourth with a pair of runs on a Ben Austin single and a squeeze bunt by Stephen Johnson. That would be all the scoring in the game as Wofford held on for the 2-0 victory.

Kevin Fitzgerald (0-1) took the loss. He surrendered two runs on four hits in six innings. He fanned three and walked one.

Ths Seawolves close out the series with Wofford with a single game tomorrow at 1 p.m.