Box Score STONY BROOK, N.Y. — The Stony Brook baseball team will look to claim its first series win of the season on Sunday.

Central Connecticut State evened the series at a game apiece with a 5-3 victory on Saturday at chilly Joe Nathan Field.

Chris Hamilton's two-out, two-run double in the ninth brought the tying run to the plate, but Dylan Sabia entered and retired Brett Paulsen for the game's final out.

Stony Brook starter Sam Turcotte surrendered three runs on six hits and two walks while striking out five in 5 2/3 innings.

All of the damage against Turcotte came in the fourth.

Brad Hipsley drove in the Seawolves' opening run in the bottom half of that inning with a groundout that plated Shane Paradine.

Trailing 3-1, Stony Brook then threatened in the seventh, placing a pair of runners on base. But with his 101st pitch, Blue Devils right-hander Brandon Fox coaxed an inning-ending flyout from Hamilton.

Brian Morrisey had stranded a pair of baserunners inherited from Turcotte (0-2), but ultimately surrendered a pair of runs in the eighth — in his third inning on the mound — as Central Connecticut State opened a four-run lead.

Fox logged eight innings and tossed 119 pitches. He lowered his season ERA to 0.43 in three starts with the Blue Devils. The lone run against him was unearned.

"I'm disappointed and frustrated," Stony Brook coach Matt Senk said. "The kid did a nice job of mixing pitches, but I still felt like we could have done more than we did offensively."

Turcotte's ERA rose to 3.32.

"Sam came out throwing the ball well," Senk said. "That one inning for away from him."

Evan Giordano extended his streak of reaching base to open the season to 12 games.
 
Stony Brook (3-9) and Central Connecticut State (3-7) play the rubber game of their three-game series on Sunday at 1 p.m. at Joe Nathan Field.

"We're looking forward to coming back Sunday and winning the series, because that's what it's all about," Senk said.