April 6, 2008

Game 1 Box Score

Game 2 Box Score

Stony Brook, N.Y. - Junior Mike Errigo (Bayside, N.Y.) allowed no earned runs and seven hits in 8.2 innings of work as the Stony Brook University Seawolves completed a four-game sweep of the Binghamton Bearcats with a 5-2 victory on Sunday afternoon at University Field in the second game of a doubleheader. The Seawolves used a seven-run third inning on their way to a 7-6 win in game one. SBU improves to 14-11 overall and 4-0 in the America East while the Bearcats fall to 7-19 and 0-4.

Errigo (2-3) cruised through the first eight innings, allowing just five hits but ran into the trouble in the ninth as the Bearcats loaded the bases with two out on a hit, a walk and a Seawolves error. Ryan James followed with a two-run double to cut the Stony Brook lead to 5-2. Errigo then walked Joe Charron to bring Kyle Klee to the plate as the tying run. The Seawolves turned to sophomore Devin Will (Remsen, N.Y.) who struck out Klee swinging to pick up his first save. Errigo struck out seven in his 8.2 innings of work, walking four.

The Bearcats threatened to take an early lead in the fourth, loading the bases with no out. But Jeff Abrams then fouled out to first bringing up C.J. Lukaszewski who grounded it back to Errigo who threw it home for the force out and Echevarria then relayed it to first to complete the double play and end the threat.

Stony Brook carried the momentum into the fourth, striking for five runs. The Seawolves put their first two runners on and junior Steven Mazzurco (Selden, N.Y.) then bunted up the third base line and Bearcat third baseman Brian Ivan threw it away, allowing sophomore Jeremy Nowak (Cheektowaga, N.Y.) to score. Freshman Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.) then smashed a two-run single up the middle to give SBU a 3-0 lead. Echevarria followed with a RBI double to make it 4-0 and he then came home to score on a run-scoring single from junior Brian Witkowski (Lindenhurst, N.Y.).

Nowak led the Seawolves offense with three hits in four at-bats. Murphy Smith took the loss for the Bearcats, allowing five runs and eight hits in 6.0 innings.

Binghamton too the early lead in game one, getting a run in the second on a Abrams RBI single and then two more in the third on RBI singles from Joe Charron and Klee.

But the Seawolves came right back in the bottom of the third, battering Bearcat pitching for seven runs and seven hits in the inning. Mazzurco doubled to lead off and then came home on a Marino RBI single. Junior Keith Fier (Armonk, N.Y.) then bunted for a base hit and Witkowski followed with a sacrifice fly to make it 3-2.

Freshman Chad Marshall (Paris, Ontario) reached on another base hit to bring up sophomore Michael Stephan (Patchogue, N.Y.) who walked. Fier ran on the final pitch to Stephan and Lukaszewski threw it into left-field allowing Fier to come around home with the third run of the inning. Nowak doubled to drive in Marshall and junior Rob Dyer (Selden, N.Y.) followed with a three-run shot to make it 7-3 in favor of Stony Brook.

The Bearcats got three runs back in the fourth, with the help of three Seawolves errors, to cut the Stony Brook lead to 7-6. But that is as close as they would get as sophomore Jordan Purington (Westbrook, Maine) pitched two scoreless innings and then gave way to Nowak in the seventh who retired the side in order to pick up his fifth save.

The Seawolves return to action on Friday, hosting Hartford at University Field. Game time is set for 3 p.m.