BRIDGEPORT, CONN. – Stony Brook baseball team's hot bats kept going and sophomore RHP
Bret Clarke (Royersford, Pa.) tossed his best outing of the season on Sunday afternoon at the Ballpark at Harbor Yard to give the Seawolves an 11-5 win to secure the four-game series sweep over Sacred Heart
Clarke allowed just one earned run in 7.0 innings for work and struck out a season-best nine for his first victory of the season, while Saturday's hero sophomore RF
Dylan Resk's (Ardsley, N.Y.) blasted his third home run of the series as one of the Seawolves' (15-14) 13 hits. Sophomore 2B
Brandon Janofsky (Jackson, N.J.) recorded three hits on the afternoon and freshman DH
Michael Wilson (Colonia, N.J.) drove in a game-best three runs.
Turning Point
Stony Brook jumped out early on Sacred Heart (7-22) with two runs in each the second and third innings. The Seawolves plated the two runs in the second on three hits, including an RBI single by sophomore 2B
Brandon Janofsky (Jackson, N.J.). The two runs in the third were both driven in by freshman DH
Michael Wilson (Colonia, N.J.) on a two-out single.
Quoting Head Coach Matt Senk
"The guys finished the sweep of the series by continuing to have quality at bats, solid defense and strong pitching. The weekend was a full team effort"
Notes
- Stony Brook banged out double-digit hits for the sixth straight game with 13 hits in today's win.
- The Seawolves extended their winning streak to seven games.
- Sophomore LF Dylan Resk's (Ardsley, N.Y.) homered in the fifth inning. It was his third of the series, seventh of the season and the ninth of his career.
- Sophomore Dan McEvoy (East Moriches, N.Y.) homered in the 8th inning. It was the first of his collegiate career.
- Sophomore 2B Brandon Janofsky (Jackson, N.J.) collected three hits on Sunday for his third three-hit game of the season.
- Sophomore RHP Bret Clarke (Royersford, Pa.) picked up his first victory of the season and the seventh of his career. He struck out a season-best nine in the win.
- Senior 1B Casey Baker (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) improved his reached base streak to 13 straight games by reaching safely on Sunday.
- Senior CF Toby Handley (Whitby, Ontario) extended his reached base streak to 16 straight games by reaching safely on Sunday.
On Deck
Stony Brook begins a seven-game road swing next week that gets underway at Marist on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. before heading to UMass Lowell for a three-game America East Conference series on April 14-15.
