March 20, 2005

Box Score

Irvine, Calif. - A seven-run eighth inning blew open a 6-6 tie and gave Nevada an 13-6 victory over the Stony Brook baseball team on Sunday afternoon at the OCYSF UC Irvine Hardball Classic. Isidro Fortuna had an excellent day at the plate for the Seawolves, going 4-for-5 with three RBI, but it was not enough as the Brook fell to 5-8 this season.

Nevada's Brett Hayes drew a walk with the baseas loaded on a 3-2 pitch that just missed off the outside corner to open the scoring in the fatal eighth inning for the Seawolves. Jacob Butler added a sacrifice fly before Ben Mummy broke the game open with a two-run double to give the Wolfpack a 10-6 lead. Baker Krukow followed with a single to plate Mummy and Shawn Scobee belted a two-run homer to give Nevada a 13-6 advantage heading into the ninth.

The Seawolves staked starter Matt Restivo to a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning as Andrew Larsen led off the game with his team-leading sixth double of the season and came home two batters later on a single through the left side by Isidro Fortuna. Nevada answered back in the bottom of the inning as cleanup hitter Mummy blasted a two-run homer to centerfield to give the Wolfpack a 2-1 lead after one frame.

Nevada added a run on a safety squeeze in the second and another on a sacrifice fly in the third to take a 4-1 lead before the Seawolves answered in with three runs in the top of the fifth inning to tie the game at four apiece. Larsen and Fortuna pulled a repeat performance from the first inning as Larsen doubled and came home on a Fortuna single for the first run of the inning. Tom Pennino followed with an RBI double and Stephen Didsbury singled him home to tie the game at four after four and a half innings. Nevada took the lead right back in the bottom of the inning, however, as left fielder Michael Vass hit a sacrifice fly to score Mummy from third.

The top of the lineup answered for the Seawolves again in the top of the sixth inning, plating two runs with two outs to take a 6-5 lead. Larsen reached on a two-out infield single and was plated by a Matt Devins double off the left field wall to tie the ballgame before Fortuna tallied his fourth hit of the day, a bloop single over second, to give the Brook a 6-5 lead.

Nevada tied the game at six in the bottom of the seventh on an RBI double by Krukow and broke the game open with seven runs in the eighth.

Fortuna led the Seawolves at the plate, going 4-for-5 with three RBI and a run scored, while Larsen went 2-for-5 with three runs scored. Mummy was 3-for-3 with three RBI and four runs scored to lead Nevada.

Stony Brook is back in action tomorrow versus UC Santa Barbara at 2 p.m. PT.