Fishkill, N.Y. – The Mount Saint Mary College Baseball team split a doubleheader with local foe New Paltz on Saturday afternoon at Dutchess Stadium. Sophomore
Liam Merlin (Reading, Mass.) singled to walk if off in extra innings in game 1 while the Mount was held to one run in game 2.
Game 1- MSMC 3 NP 2 (8 innings)
The first game of the twinbill started as a pitcher's duel as
Alexander Maher (Mineola, N.Y.) and Anthony Amoroso put up zeroes over the first two and a half innings.
After an
Anthony Rizzo (Smithtown, N.Y.) single and a
Devin Tait (Staten Island, N.Y.) walk,
Nick Rizzo (Smithtown, N.Y.) singled through the left side to drive in two for the Mount.
Neither team found the scoreboard again until the seventh inning when the Hawks rallied in the top of the seventh when Ryan Geraghty tripled in the right center gap. He scored on a wild pitch to cut the lead to one.
Following a Julian Francisco walk and a single to right from Jesse Keshner, Matt Warshaw plated the tying run on a groundout to second.
Michael DiGiovanni (Shirley, N.Y.) got a strikeout to end the threat and send the game to extra innings.
Anthony Caminitti (Mahopac, N.Y.) stranded the bases loaded in the top of the eighth inning before the Mount put a rally together in the bottom half of the inning. N. Rizzo worked a 13 pitch walk with one out as a fielder's choice and an infield single by
Michael Doxey (Highland, N.Y.) loaded the bases. Merlin singled up the middle to walk it off for the Knights.
Doxey finished the day with three hits while N. Rizzo drove in two runs and Merlin drove in one. Geraghty, Keshner and Warshaw had the lone hits for the Hawks.
Maher finished with 4.2 innings on the mound, allowing just one hit and two walks while striking out four. Caminitti earned the win with one inning of relief.
Amoroso allowed five hits and two runs in four innings of work in the no-decision while Justin Halper took the loss in relief as he allowed three hits and one run in 1.1 innings of work.
Game 2- NP 5 MSMC 1
New Paltz stuck first in the top of the first inning as Matt McGee and Dean Stalzer singled with two outs and Keshner drove him in with a double in the right center gap.
Mount Saint Mary cut the lead to one in the fifth inning when
Jaiden Bonet (Bronx, N.Y.) singled through the left side to score
Matt Barbieri (New Paltz, N.Y.). New Paltz responded with a run of its own in the sixth on a fielder's choice error with two outs.
The Hawks added two insurance runs in the seventh when McGee led off with a double, tagged on flyball and scored on a Keshner single to right field. Keshner scored on a John McCarrick single up the middle for a 5-1 lead.
Barbieri had two hits and a run scored for the Mount and Bonet had a single and a run scored while six different playres had a run scored. McGee led the way with three hits, two RBI and a run scored while Keshner had two hits and three runs batted in.
Matthew Borriello (Montgomery, N.Y.) took the loss for the Knights as he lasted four innings, allowing two runs on six hits and struck out four.
Nick Harvey earned the win in his first college start for New Paltz as he went five innings, allowing one run on four hits. Scott Wagner picked up the save in relief as he pitched two innings, allowing three hits and striking out two.
At 3-3 overall, the Mount returns to action at Dutchess Stadium on Wednesday against CCNY. First pitch is scheduled for 4:00 p.m.
