April 24, 2010

Box Score

Albany, N.Y. - Sophomore Pat Cantwell (West Islip, N.Y.) hit a go-ahead RBI double with one out in the ninth inning to lead the Stony Brook University baseball team to a 3-2 victory over the Albany Great Danes in the first game of an America East doubleheader on Saturday afternoon at Varsity Field. The Seawolves then scored nine runs over the final two innings on its way to a 10-2 win in the second game. Stony Brook is now 16-17 overall and 6-2 in the America East.

Game one was scheduled to be seven innings but went to extra innings after the Seawolves tied the game at 2 in the sixth on a sacrifice fly from junior Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.). The contest went to the ninth still tied but freshman Travis Jankowski (Lancaster, Pa.) walked with two outs and then scored on Cantwell's double to center.

Freshman William Carmona (Hempstead, N.Y.) then pitched around a one-out single in the ninth to secure the victory for the Seawolves and pick up his third save of the season. Sophomore Nick Tropeano (West Islip, N.Y.) picked up the win, allowing just one earned run on three hits in 8.0 innings while striking out 10.

The Great Danes jumped to the early lead in game one on an RBI single from Pete DiResta. Albany then added a run in third on a sacrifice fly from Kyle Crean. SBU sliced the lead to 2-1 in the fourth on a run-scoring single from Carmona.

The second game of the day was changed to a seven-inning game because game one went to extra innings. The Seawolves scored a run in the first inning of game two as Cantwell led off with a single and eventually came home on a wild pitch.

Albany tied the game in the fourth on a DiResta RBI single and then took the lead in the fifth on a run-scoring single from Brendan Rowland. But the Seawolves rallied to take the lead with four runs in the sixth highlighted by a two-run double from freshman Tanner Nivins (Kitchener, Ontario).

The Seawolves then tacked on five runs in the seventh to put the game away. Nivins drove in the first two runs of the inning with a two-run single before Carmona drove in the final three runs of the inning with a three-run home run.

Sophomore Tyler Johnson (Chatsworth, Calif.) earned the win for the Seawolves, allowing two runs on six hits in 6.0 innings. Carmona went 3-for-4 with four RBI while Nivins had two hits and four RBI.

The teams will wrap up their four-game series with a doubleheader on Sunday. First pitch is set for 12 p.m.