April 16, 2005

Box Score

Vestal, N.Y. - The Stony Brook baseball team was swept by Binghamton in a doubleheader with the Bearcats on Saturday afternoon, falling 4-3 in 10 innings in Game 1 before losing 8-2 in Game 2. With the losses, the Seawolves fall to 12-19 overall, 2-3 in the America East, while Binghamton improves to 11-15-1, 2-3.The sweep was BU's first in 31 years over a Seawolves team that had won six of the last seven meetings.

Binghamton's Matthieu Bergeron won the opener with a two-out hit in the bottom of the 10th inning, and then the lefty slugger added a three-run home run in the nightcap. Bergeron, who leads the America East in home runs (8), RBI (33) and slugging percentage (.742), delivered a two-out double to the wall in right center in the bottom of the 10th inning, scoring Justin Smucker with the winning run. Smucker had drawn a walk with one out, and came all the way around from first to end the game.

The Seawolves jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI groundout by Will Brumfield and a sacrifice fly by Chris DiBiaso. After being tied up at two in the third, the Seawolves took the lead again in the sixth on another sacrifice fly, this time by Matt Devins, to take a 3-2 advantage.

Jeff Monaco tied the game again at three in the bottom of the seventh inning on a solo home run before Bergeron won the game in the tenth inning.

Matt Restivo (3-3) took the loss for the Seawolves as they used six pitchers in the opener. Chris Sipp went 2-for-3 at the plate to lead the Seawolves offensively.

In the nightcap, Binghamton scored four runs in the fourth inning and four more in the fifth en route to an 8-2 win. Smucker smacked an RBI triple to get things started in the fourth, and BU scored three more unearned runs after a Stony Brook throwing error. One inning later, Bergeron connected for his eighth round-tripper of the season - a deep blast over the right field wall.

DiBiaso singled home Tom Pennino to give the Seawolves a 1-0 lead in the second inning and Matt Devins hit a solo home run in the sixth to account for the Seawolves runs in Game 2.

Pennino went 2-for-3 with a run to lead the offense, while Brian Murtagh (3-3) was tagged with the loss.

The two teams close out their three-game set with a nine-inning affair tomorrow at noon.