Box Score May 21, 2016
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
STONY BROOK, N.Y. -- On a day when the Stony Brook baseball team honored the five four-year members of the 2016 senior class, the Seawolves split a doubleheader with visiting Albany at Joe Nathan Field on Saturday afternoon.
The Seawolves' (24-25, 13-9 AE) fell to the Great Danes (21-28, 9-14 AE) 1-0 in the first game and bounced back for a 4-0 victory in the second game.
Stony Brook honored the senior class of Johnny Caputo (Toronto, Ontario), Tyler Honahan (Parker, Colo.), Tim Knesnik (Milford, Pa.), Chad Lee (San Dimas, Calif.) and Jack Parenty (Wantagh, N.Y.) prior to the first game on Saturday.
Caputo capped his regular season career as a Seawolf with three hits in the second game to go along with two runs scored. Honahan also was able to pick up his 20th career win and fifth of the season after he tossed 4.0 shutout innings of work in game two.
Freshman LHP Joe Baran (West Hazelton, Pa.), junior RHP Connor Doyle (Maspeth, N.Y.) and sophomore LHP Cole Creighton (Levittown, Pa.) joined Honahan in the shutout. The trio combined to hold Albany to just three hits over the final five innings.
Quoting head coach Matt Senk
"Another excellent job by our pitching staff and it was an extremely hard luck loss by us in the first game, but I'm proud of the way the guys came back in the second game. Now we turn out full attention to the tournament and we look forward to going out there and playing our best baseball of the year."
Game One Turning Point
With the score tied at zero in the fifth inning, Albany took advantage of a first and third situation and pulled off a double steal. Kyle Sacks took off for second and after a throw to second, Kevin Donati headed for home and beat the throw.
Game Two Turning Point
Stony Brook broke its scoring drought in the second inning. After leading the bases, junior CF Toby Handley (Whitby, Ontario) walked with the count 3-2 that forced Caputo in from the third. The run would prove to be all the Seawolves needed in the 4-0 victory.
Notes
- Senior LHP Tyler Honahan (Parker, Colo.) appeared in his 61st game as a Seawolf in game two.
- Honahan picked up his 20th career win in game two.
- Junior RF Casey Baker (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) collected at least one hit in each game on Saturday has now reached base safely in 20 straight games.
- Sophomore 3B Bobby Honeyman (Massapequa, N.Y.) had at least one hit in each game on Saturday and has now reached base safely in 13 straight games.
Up Next
The Seawolves will be the No. 3 seed in next week's America East Conference championship held at Lowell, Ma. Stony Brook will face No. 6 seed Maine at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday afternoon.
