LOWELL, MA. – For the second straight year, junior 3B Bobby Honeyman (Massapequa, N.Y.) proved to be the hero for the Stony Brook baseball team in game one of the America East Tournament after he provided the walk-off hit to give the third-seeded Seawolves a 4-3 victory over No. 6 seed Hartford at LeLacheur Park on Wednesday afternoon.
 
Honeyman, who won game one last season with a home run in the ninth inning, singled home sophomore RF Dylan Resk (Ardsley, N.Y.) from third in the bottom of the 10^th inning on Wednesday.
 
The Seawolves (26-24) advanced to play second-seeded UMBC on Thursday. Hartford (20-29) dropped to the losers bracket and faced Maine on Wednesday night in the first elimination game of the tournament.
 
Freshman DH Michael Wilson (Colonia, N.J.) also provided some heroism with a two-out, two-run home run in the seventh inning to give Stony Brook a 3-2 lead.
 
Junior RHP Aaron Pinto (West Covina, Calif.) picked up the win, his fifth of the season, after he tossed 3.0 innings of work and allowed just one run on one hit with four strikeouts. Freshman RHP Brian Herrmann (Northport, N.Y.) went 7.0 innings and allowed just two runs on three hits in the no-decision.
 
Turning Point
After Stony Brook's first two batters were retired in the bottom of the 10^th inning, Resk and junior LF Andruw Gazzola (Corman, N.Y.) both singled before Honeyman sent a 2-2 pitch into right center field that scored Resk with the winning run.
 
Quoting Head Coach Matt Senk
"That was a great college baseball game. I can't say enough about Hartford and how hard they played and so did our guys. That made for a great game. Their (Hartford) starting pitcher was terrific and so was ours. It was kind of a throwback game. It was great to be a part it and great to be on the winning side."
 
"This is two years in a row that Bobby (Honeyman) has come out and got the game-winning hit in the first game of the tournament so I was happy to see him coming up in that situation."
 
Notes

• Senior CF Toby Handley (Whitby, Ontario) singled in the sixth inning and has now reached base safely in 37 straight games.
• Handley extended his hit streak to 17 straight games with his single in the sixth inning on Wednesday.
• Freshman DH Michael Wilson (Colonia, N.J.) homered in the seventh inning. It was his fifth home run of the season.
• Freshman RHP Brian Herrmann (Northport, N.Y.) equaled his longest outing of the season by going 7.0.
• Junior RHP Aaron Pinto (West Covina, Calif.) earned his fifth victory of the season and the eighth of his career.
• Junior LF Andruw Gazzola (Coram, N.Y.) doubled in the ninth inning and singled in the 10^th to extend his hitting streak to nine straight games and extend his reached base streak to 13 games in a row. 

On Deck
Stony Brook, the No. 3 seed will take on second-seeded UMBC on Thursday at 12:30 p.m. at LeLacheur Park in Lowell, Ma.