May 15, 2010

Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score

Stony Brook, N.Y. - Senior Robert Dyer (Selden, N.Y.) hit a walk-off RBI single with one out in the eighth inning to lead the Stony Brook University baseball team to a 3-2 victory over the Hartford Hawks in the first game of an America East Conference doubleheader on Saturday at University Field. Sophomore Tyler Johnson (Chatsworth, Calif.) then tossed a four-hitter and the Seawolves pounded out 17 hits on their way to a 13-3 win in game two. Stony Brook is now 24-22 overall and 13-6 in the America East.

The Seawolves trailed 2-1 entering the seventh and final inning of game one but freshman William Carmona (Hempstead, N.Y.) smashed a line-drive home run over the left-field fence with one out to tie the game at 2. Mike Amendola led off the eighth with a single for Hartford but Stony Brook starter Nick Tropeano (West Islip, N.Y.) then bare-handed Andy Drexel's bunt and fired to second to cut down Amendola.

Senior catcher Justin Echeverria (Uniondale, N.Y.) then picked Drexel off first for the second out before Tropeano walked pinch-hitter Bobby Gorski. But Tropeano got Rodger Wilmot to ground into a fielder's choice to get out of the inning.

Sophomore Pat Cantwell (West Islip, N.Y.) then led off the bottom of the eighth with a single to left and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt from junior Chad Marshall (Paris, Ontario). Hartford starter Mike Thatcher intentionally walked junior Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.) to bring up Dyer, who drilled a single up the middle to score Cantwell with the winning run.

Tropeano (7-3) earned the win for the Seawolves, striking out nine in his 8.0 innings of work. It is his fourth complete game in his last five starts. Thatcher took the loss for Hartford, allowing three runs on seven hits in 7.1 innings.

Hartford grabbed the early lead with an unearned run in the second but senior Michael Stephan's (Patchogue, N.Y.) solo home run in the bottom of the inning tied the game at one. Hartford took the lead back in fifth on an Amendola RBI double.

The Seawolves jumped to an early lead in the game two, scoring three runs in the first. Marshall drove in the first run with an RBI double and Stephan then capped the inning with a two-run home run to center.

SBU used the home run ball to put the game away in the third. Dyer and freshman Maxx Tissenbaum (Toronto, Ontario) each hit solo shots while freshman Tanner Nivins (Kitchener, Ontario) hit a three-run shot.

Stony Brook added an unearned run in the fourth and then scored four in the fifth highlighted by run-scoring doubles from Dyer and sophomore Sal Intagliata (Franklin Square, N.Y.). Dyer went a combined 5-for-9 in the doubleheader to become the fifth player in program history to record 200 career hits.

Johnson earned his eighth win for the Seawolves, allowing just five hits and no earned runs. The right-hander is one win from tying Drew McDowell `94 and Jon Lewis `06 for the most single season wins by a Stony Brook pitcher. Cantwell had four hits in the doubleheader and now has a 20-game hitting streak.

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