LOWELL, MA. – The Stony Brook baseball team's 2017 season came to a close on Friday with a pair of losses in the America East Conference Championship at LeLacheur Park.
The Seawolves (26-26), the No. 3 seed, fell to second seeded UMBC, 3-2, in the first game of the afternoon and then dropped a 3-0 decision to No. 5 seed Maine in the night cap.
Game One Turning Point
UMBC was able to post single runs in each the first, fourth and fifth innings to take a 3-0 lead, one that the Seawolves were unable to overcome.
Game Two Turning Point
Maine put up two runs in the third inning and that proved all the Black Bears would need.
Notes
- Senior CF Toby Handley (Whitby, Ontario) singled in the fifth and seventh innings in the UMBC game and doubled in the Maine game and ended his career having reached base safely in 39 straight games.
- Handley extended his hit streak to 19 straight games with his singles against UMBC and his double against Maine.
- Handley finished his collegiate career ranked first at Stony Brook in career triples (18), second in stolen bases (54), third in walks (116), 10th in runs scored (136) and 10th in at bats (684).
- Senior 1B Casey Baker (Ronkonkoma, N.Y.) finished his collegiate career ranked fourth in career triples (12), fifth in walks (95), sixth in RBI (130), seventh in stolen bases (32), ninth in at bats (696) and 10th in hits (220).
- Senior SS Jeremy Giles (Claremont, Calif.) finished his Stony Brook career ranked fourth in walks with 109.
- Sophomore RF Dylan Resk (Ardsley, N.Y.) blasted his 13th home of the season in the eighth inning against UMBC. He finished the season tied for fourth in single season home runs at Stony Brook.
