LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Stony Brook baseball team fell in game three of their three game set with Cal State Northridge today, Feb. 19, 8-4.
Former First-Team All America East recipient and preseason All-CAA Honorable Mention graduate student Nick DeGennaro tossed five innings, allowing three hits, two earned runs, and didn't surrender a walk in his first start since February 25, 2022 at South Florida.
Stony Brook (0-3, 0-0 CAA) wasted no time by putting the pressure on the Matador defense in the first inning. Junior Evan Fox, who was 31-for-33 in stolen base attempts last season, put himself into scoring position after drawing a walk and then stealing the bag.
After Senior Matt Brown-Eiring advanced Fox to third base on a fly-ball, the squad would capture their first homerun of the season as senior Shane Paradine belted the ball over the left field fence, giving the Seawolves a 2-0 lead.
The Matadors would score a run back in the bottom of the first. But, DeGennaro did not allow the CSUN offensive to get into any rhythm as he allowed just two hits and one run over the next four innings.
CSUN got to the Stony Brook bullpen in the sixth and scored two runs in the inning. The Matadors would go on to score four more in the eighth to take the victory 8-4.
STATS AND NOTES
- DeGennaro returned to the bump after missing most of last season. The graduate was stellar for Stony Brook, allowing just two runs, four hits, no walks, and struck out three in his season-debut.
- Paradine blasted his ninth home run of his career and also drew a walk to reach base twice this afternoon.
- Brown-Eiring went 1-for-4 this afternoon. For the weekend, the junior finished the weekend with a .400 batting average and on-base percentage of .450.
- Sophomore Matt DiStefano made his first start of the season and recorded two hits in his four plate appearances.
- Freshman Matthew Wright made his first start for Stony Brook and captured two hits in the eight spot.
- Freshman Eddie Smink recorded the loss in his collegiate appearance.
- Junior Ryan Micheli made his first start of the season behind the plate.
- Junior Quinlan Montgomery finished the final 0.2 innings for Stony Brook, making his first apperance out of the pen this season.
UP NEXT
The Seawolves will return to the diamond next weekend in Troy, Alabama, to take on Troy University in a three game set. Game one of the series on Feb. 24 is set for 6:00 p.m. It will be the first meeting between these programs in history.
