NORFOLK, Va. — The Stony Brook baseball team fell in its first two games of a three-game set at Old Dominion on Friday afternoon, with Old Dominion winning the opening contest 9-3 and the nightcap 8-3.
The hosts rattled off late runs in the first game, scoring the final six of the day after the matchup was knotted at three through five and a half.
Shane Paradine and
Evan Giordano got the Seawolves started in the third inning of game one, with back to back run-scoring hits to tie the game at two.
Matt Brown-Eiring's RBI groundout tied the game at three before Old Dominion took control.
In game two, Brown-Eiring continued his great play, driving in two of Stony Brook's runs with a RBI double in the first and an infield single that plated a run in the seventh.
STATS AND NOTES
- After reaching in both games, Stanton Leuthner's on-base streak extended to 13 games to start the season.
- Brown-Eiring has driven in a run in four consecutive games.
- With a pair of hits today, Matt Miceli recorded his first multi-hit game of his collegiate career.
- Paradine has now recorded a hit in six straight, with four of the six being multi-hit games.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"Old Dominion is an excellent team. They made us pay for just about every mistake we made today. But of course, that's what good teams do. We will look to regroup tomorrow as we continue to work on playing a cleaner brand of baseball of which we are more than capable" - head coach
Matt Senk.
UP NEXT
Game three of the series is set for Sunday afternoon, with a 1 p.m., first pitch scheduled from Norfolk.
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