STONY BROOK, N.Y. — Evan Giordano and
Cole Durkan called game.
With one out in the bottom of the 10th, the two seniors launched back to back home runs to turn a one-run deficit into a 7-6 victory at Joe Nathan Field on Saturday afternoon to clinch the series victory.
Giordano started the Stony Brook scoring in the 2nd inning, grounding a single through the left side to make it 1-0 to the hosts.
After UMass Lowell took the lead,
Evan Fox sent his second home run of the season over the left-field wall to tie the game at two.
The River Hawks would retake the lead in the sixth with a pair of runs and the Seawolves would take it right back in the bottom half, with
Shane Paradine's two-run double tying the game and
Matt Brown-Eiring driving a triple into the gap to make it 5-4.
A seventh-inning sacrifice fly would tie the game at five apiece, sending the game into the 10th.
It would be a three-homer inning, as Lowell took the lead with a long ball to left in the top half before Giordano and Durkan ended it with a pair of homers in the bottom.
STATS AND NOTES
- Durkan's homer is the second walkoff of his career, adding to a walkoff squeeze bunt on May 9, 2021. It is his second home run of the campaign and seventh of his collegiate stint.
- The hit extended his hitting streak to a team-high seven games.
- Evan Fox and Brett Paulsen brought their's to six. Paulsen is 9-for-24 (.375) during the stretch while Fox has amassed a 7-for-22 (.318) clip.
- Giordano belted his second of the year and 11th of his career. He totaled a 3-for-4 day that was the first 3-hit day of the season.
- He's now 6-for-11 (.545) over his last three games with five runs driven in.
- The three home runs are a season high in a game this season and Stony Brook's 13 hits were tied for the most this season.
- O'Neill picked up career win number three and his second of the year.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"What a great college baseball game. Obviously it's great to end up on top but that was two teams really competing and it was a lot of fun to be a part of. It doesn't get much better than that. We have a tried and true approach here with our hitting and they're starting to come around. We go out against really tough pitching by always scheduling a tough non-conference and these guys work hard. We talk to them all the time. Between our approach as a program to hitting and the adjustments we make in game, Coach Martin helps out a great deal with that, you get some really positive results" - head coach
Matt Senk.
"That's definitely our most exciting win of the year. I'm enjoying whatever I can do to help the team win right now. I was talking to Coach Senk before the game and I thought I was catching the ball inside and late in the zone, so I've been really trying to catch the ball out in front so I can pull it a little more instead of getting jammed" - senior third baseman
Evan Giordano.
"I was having some mechanical problems with my swing all day and I knew [with the submarine pitcher coming in] that the ball was going to run away and I just had to stay compact to the ball and stay with it" - senior centerfielder
Cole Durkan.
UP NEXT
Stony Brook looks for the series sweep tomorrow, as the River Hawks and Seawolves battle at Noon at Joe Nathan Field.
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