April 18, 2006
Box Score
STATEN ISLAND, NY - Poor defense and missed opportunities plagued Wagner in today's 6-4 loss to NYIT. Five Seahawks errors led to four unearned runs which provided the difference as the Green & White fell to 7-24 while the Bears improved to 16-11.
With no score in the top of the third, the Bears plated a run on a Johnson single up the middle and a second run on an errant throw by senior Nick Papa (Freehold, NJ / Freehold) to make it 2-0. NYIT scored two more unearned runs in the top of the sixth to jump ahead 4-0.
The Seahawks got those two runs back in the bottom part of the inning. Junior Ed Sudol (Wallington, NJ / Wallington) led off with a single to center field. Papa then followed with his second hit of the game. After a strikeout, junior Joseph DiGeronimo (Hawthorne, NJ / Hawthorne) walked to load the bases before pinch hitter sophomore Dan Morvay (Jackson, NJ / Jackson Memorial) singled through the right side to make it 4-2. Freshman Chris Drechsel (Cranford, NJ / Cranford) then walked to load the bases up again, but classmate Pete Delleani (Manalapan, NJ / CBA) was coaxed into a double-play to end the threat.
The Bears scored two runs, one unearned, in the top of the seventh to push their lead back to four at 6-2.
The score would stay that way until the bottom of the ninth when Sudol blasted his first home run of the season, a two-run shot, to right-center to cut the lead to 6-4. However, it was too little too late as Wagner would get no closer.
Papa led the way going 3-5. Sudol was 2-5 with two runs and two RBI and DiGeronimo extended his hitting streak to eight games, the longest by a Seahawk this season, going 1-3 with two walks to round out the top offensive performers for the Green & White.
Freshman Kevin Rush (Metuchen, NJ / Metuchen) gave up one earned run in 2.2 innings and was the tough-luck loser, falling to 0-3 on the season. Redshirt-junior Andrew Bailey (Haddon Heights, NJ / Paul VI) struck out two in 2.0 innings, while improving his season-opening scoreless streak to 8.2 innings.
NYIT's Chris Perez struck out three and gave up two runs in 5.1 innings of work to improve to 5-2 on the season.
The two teams will meet again on Thursday, April 20 at 3:30 pm in Old Westbury, NY.
