STONY BROOK, N.Y. – The Stony Brook baseball team erased a two-run deficit in the top of the ninth to win the opening game of Saturday's doubleheader with Binghamton, allowing the team to split the first two games of a three-game set.
Junior
Nick Grande (Smithtown, N.Y.) hit a two-strike pitch to the outfield, scoring the game's winning run in the opener before Stony Brook could not push one across in the nightcap.
SENK'S REACTION
"We showed tremendous resilience, toughness and determination in today's first game extra inning win. We'll need to come with all those intangibles tomorrow to win the rubber match and take the series"
GAME 1 SUMMARY
- Binghamton started with a pair in the third, getting a RBI single to short and a sacrifice fly to right.
- After the Bearcats added a home run to right, senior Brandon Alamo (Artesia, Calif.) gave the Seawolves the lead with one swing: a grand slam to right.
- The home team re-took the lead in the seventh with a two-run home run and RBI double to left.
- Junior Michael Wilson (Colonia, N.J.) cut the lead to one in the ninth with an infield single to second before Alamo tied it with a sacrifice fly to center.
- Grande scored freshman Johnny Decker (Coeymans Hollow, N.Y.) on a single to right to give Stony Brook the lead for good.
GAME 2 SUMMARY
- Binghamton scored all five of its runs in the middle innings, with two coming in the fourth and three in the fifth.
- The Bearcats hit a two-run single in the fourth and then a two-run home run in the fifth to accompany an RBI groundout.
STATS AND NOTES
- Grande has reached in 24 consecutive games after getting on base in both games today.
- Alamo's five-RBI performance is the first such game for a Seawolves player this season and the first since Wilson did it against Binghamton on March 17 last season.
- Junior Sam Turcotte (Toronto, Ontario) collected his third win of the season with a scoreless ninth and 10th innings in game one.
- He has struck out 12 batters in his last 6.2 innings in relief.
- Stony Brook has won seven of the last nine meetings with its SUNY foe.
UP NEXT
The teams meet in the rubber game of the three-game set tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. The time was moved up due to incoming weather to the Vestal, N.Y. area.
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