LAKE CHARLES, La. — Freshman
Colton Book made an impressive opening debut, going five scoreless innings in relief to earn his first collegiate win as the Stony Brook baseball team earned its first win of the 2022 campaign, a 7-3 decision over McNeese State to set up a rubber match on Sunday.
The freshman relieved
Josh O'Neill, who went four in the start, and allowed just one hit on 55 pitches, striking out four.
After McNeese started the scoring for the second straight game, for the second straight game, the Seawolves responded. Stony Brook scored four runs in a row, highlighted by a three-run fourth.
Stanton Leuthner and
Matt Brown-Eiring paired up for back-to-back scoring plays to give the visitors the lead for good with a RBI single and double, respectively.
Cole Durkan added an RBI in the sixth with an RBI, ground-rule double and Brown-Eiring legged out a run-scoring triple to make it a 6-3 game in the eighth.
Evan Giordano put the exclamation point on it, shooting a ball over the left-center field wall for his first home run of the year.
STATS AND NOTES
- Giordano's homer is the 10th of his career and eighth over the last two years.
- Durkan recorded his fourth multi-RBI game over the last two seasons and fifth of his career.
- Brown-Eiring's pair of RBI is his first multi-RBI performance of his career.
- O'Neill went four innings in the start, his first since March 8, 2020. He struck out four, allowing three earned and five hits.
- After no extra-base hits last night, Stony Brook ripped off five, with two doubles, two triples and a homer.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"What a performance by
Colton Book in his first collegiate appearance. He protected the lead in a huge way and allowed us to add on runs that we failed to do yesterday. It's tough to write it up any better for Colton! Also, I'm very proud of our hitters in making the adjustments necessary to make us a much better offense today. Especially
Shane Paradine,
Stanton Leuthner and
Matt Brown-Eiring on their three-hit day, as well as Matt and
Cole Durkan combining for four of our seven runs with two RBI each." - head coach
Matt Senk.
UP NEXT
Tomorrow's rubber match will feature
Shane Helmstadt and Grant Rogers, with first pitch scheduled for 12:30 p.m., on Sunday.
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