STONY BROOK, N.Y. — In a two day back and forth affair, the Stony Brook Seawolves fell 4-3 in a 13-inning marathon matchup to the Northeastern Huskies on Sunday afternoon.
John Rizzo (0-2) took the loss on the mound for Stony Brook and went 3.2 innings, giving up one run on two hits, allowing three walks and striking out six. Dylan Henshaw was a bright spot out of the bullpen, going four shutout innings while allowing one hit.
Offensively, the Seawolves were paced by Nicholas Dromboski, who launced his first career home run. James Schaffer put together a standout effort as well, going 1-for-4 with a walk and an RBI. Mike Villani also contributed for Stony Brook, putting together zero hits in three trips to the plate while adding three walks.
HOW IT HAPPENED
- The Seawolves were trailing 1-0 in the second inning when they first put runs on the board. Dromboski put Stony Brook on the board with a leadoff home run off Rising.
- Rizzo worked around trouble in the third inning by stranding a lead-off single that eventually made it to third base by getting a ground-out to end the threat.
- After the Seawolves were held scoreless in the bottom of the third, Northeasten re-took the lead with a two-RBI single to go up 3-1.
- Stony Brook captured a single in the bottom of the seventh as the Huskies went to the bullpen. After Nick Zampieron singled to center and advanced to second, the Huskies reliever held Stony Brook scoreless by getting a pop-out to end the inning.
- Stony Brook fought back in the ninth inning and tied the game to force extra innings. Chris Carson doubled to lead the inning off and was advanced to third by a ground out from Nicholas Dromboski. Following a hit-by-pitch from Zampieron, Schaffer brought home Carson with a single and Pilla would later walk with the bases loaded to tie the game.
- After the game was paused in the 11th inning due to darkness, Northeastern came back on Sunday morning and scored on a sac-fly in the 13ih inning to take the 4-3 victory over Stony Brook.
UP NEXT
The Seawolves will return to the field to host Northeastern for the third and final game of the series at 1:05 pm this afternoon.
