POMONA, N.Y. —The Stony Brook baseball team (13-21, 5-10 CAA) was defeated by Manhattan College (11-25, 4-5 MAAC) this afternoon after the Jaspers tallied four runs in the ninth inning, including the game-winning two-out knock to take a 13-12 victory over the Seawolves at Clover Stadium.
The Seawolves jumped on the early mistakes by the Jaspers as junior Evan Fox led the game off by reaching for the 34th consecutive time this season after getting hit by a pitch. Then, Senior Shane Paradine reached on an error after a Seawolf foul-out. Junior Matt Brown-Eiring drove in the first run of the game and a few batters later, senior Brett Paulsen sent home Paradine on a sacrifice-fly. Sophomore Matt Miceli would end the rally by bringing in junior Derek Yalon and Brown-Eiring to give the Seawolves a 4-0 advantage.
The Seawolves sent out senior Brandon Lashley to make the midweek start. The right-hander tossed two scoreless innings and struck out two batters this afternoon. Lashley kept his composure in each inning by stranding two runners on base to keep the Jaspers off the scoreboard.
Stony Brook tacked on another run in the second, third, and three runs in the fifth inning to take the early 9-2 lead by launching a home run in each inning. Graduate Evan Giordano sent his team-high eighth home run of the season and 30th of his career in the second inning, becoming one of just six players in program history and one of three players in their Division I program history to reach 30 career home runs.
Sophomore Cade Thompson entered the game in the third and surrendered a run (unearned). After allowing the bases to load, Thompson retired the final batter in the inning on a fly-out to junior Derek Yalon, keeping their five run lead.
In the next inning, Yalon smacked his second home run of the season and fifth of his career. After the Jaspers tallied a run in the fourth to make it a 6-2 game, the Seawolves responded with three runs in their next turn at the plate. Brown-Eiring launched his 17th home run of his career, a two-run shot to left field, and Miceli tabbed an RBI knock, giving the Seawolves a 9-2 lead.
The Jaspers did not go away quietly as they scored two runs in the fifth and five runs in the sixth to tie the game at 9-9. But, Stony Brook answered in the top half of the ninth inning by dropping three runs on Manhattan.
Leading the charge in the inning was Yalon leading off with a single followed by first-year student Jason Campo advancing Yalon to third base on a double. Coming up clutch was sophomore Anthony Gentile and first-year student Joseph Delanzo registering RBI knocks to give the Seawolves the 12-9 advantage. Unfortunately the Jaspers came back with four runs in the bottom half of the ninth inning to take the 13-12 victory.
STATS AND NOTES
- Paulsen has a hit in 17 of his last 18 games after going 1-for-2 this afternoon.
- Miceli earned a career-high three hits by going 3-for-3 at the plate with a career-best three RBI.
- Fox has now reached-base in all 31 games this season after leading the game with a hit-by-pitch.
- Eight different pitchers took the mound this afternoon (Lashley, Thompson, Montgomery, Sharkey, Pattermann, Foster, Vicioso, and Johnson).
- The 23 players that saw in action today was a new season-high for Stony Brook.
- The 27 combined runs this afternoon is a season-high in any game this year for Stony Brook. It was the most runs they scored since March 21 when the squad scored 14 runs in the victory over LIU.
- The Seawolves are 7-6 all-time against the Jaspers.
UP NEXT
The Seawolves will return to the diamond this weekend in Elon, N.C., to take on Elon University in a three game set. The matchup on Friday is set for 6 p.m., while Saturday's first pitch is slated for 4 p.m., and Sunday's start is scheduled for 1 pm.
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