Joe Silvestrone was one of five Seahawks to bat over .300 for the month of March, as he finished the second month of the 2019 season batting .324 in 17 games. Silvestrone tied for the team-lead with 13 runs (along with fellow classmate Anthony Pecora), while pacing the club with 22 hits. Nine of his 22 hits came via the extra base variety, as he also tripled a staggering four times in the month, highlighted by a two triple outburst back on March 15 against Mount St. Mary's in the Northeast Conference (NEC) lidlifter. The Manalapan, NJ native recorded a hit over his first nine games to start the month, batting to the tune of .324 with seven runs scored. The veteran Seahawk outfielder posted multi-hit games in six of the 17 games in March. On March 24-25 at Central Connecticut, he powered the offense, batting .500 (5-for-10) with a team-high four runs scored, a triple, a home run and a total OPS (on-base + slugging percentage) of 1.571, thanks to slugging 1.000 in the three-game set. In the series finale against the Blue Devils, Silvestrone brought Wagner to within two as he clubbed his team-tying third home run of the season, which marked his seventh career round tripper in a Seahawk uniform and the fourth home run the former Freehold Township product has recorded in league contests.
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