April 18, 2007
Box Score
Staten Island, NY - Seton Hall extended Wagner's losing streak to five games with a 6-3 victory in non-conference action earlier today at Dr. Bill Willetts Field. With the win the Pirates improve to 18-16 while the Green & White move to 8-21.
The Seahawks scored the fist three runs of the game, only to see the Pirates come back with six unanswered runs.
In the bottom of the second, senior Matt Mastrianni (Ringoes, NJ / Hunterdon Central) scored on a two-out error by the third baseman to give Wagner a 1-0 lead. The Seahawks pushed their lead to 3-0 in the next inning when sophomore Peter Delleani (Manalapan, NJ / CBA) crushed his team-best seventh home run while bringing in senior Joseph DiGeronimo (Hawthorne, NJ / Hawthorne), who had singled through the left side to lead off the frame.
Seton Hall scored one run in the top of the fourth parlaying a hit batsman, a walk and a pair of groundouts into a run to make it 3-1. The Pirates took the lead in the fifth inning when they scored five runs and batted around.
Robert Hine walked to lead off the inning and moved to second on a balk. He scored on an error on the next play to cut the lead to 3-2. Casey Hines then singled through the left side and advanced to second on the throw to give Seton Hall a second and third no-out situation. After a strikeout John Walsh belted a three-run home run over the left field wall to put the Pirates up for good at 5-3. Seton Hall added another run a pair of hits later in the inning to push their lead out to 6-3.
The Seahawks loaded the bases up in the bottom o the fifth on a single from freshman Vin Avella (Matawan, NJ / CBA) sandwiched between walks from Delleani and Mastrianni but Seton Hall starter Sean Black quelled the two-out rally with a strikeout.
From that point both teams' offenses ceased to exist as the bullpens were lights out.
Wagner relievers sophomore Kevin Rush (Metuchen, NJ / Metuchen) and freshman Buddy Cipoletti (West Islip, NY / St. John The Baptist) struck out three over 4.0 scoreless innings. Unfortunately for the Seahawks, the Pirates were just effective out of the pen allowing just three baserunners the rest of the game.
Black, a second-round pick by the Washington Nationals a year ago, struck out 10 while giving up three runs, two earned, on five hits to improve to 2-3 on the year. Dan McDonald pitched a perfect ninth for his fourth save.
Freshman Matt Watson (Howell, NJ / Howell) struck out three and fell to 1-3 after giving up four earned runs in 5.0 innings.
DiGeronimo and Avella each had a pair of hits to lead Wagner.
The Green & White return to NEC-action with a game at Quinnipiac on Friday at 3 pm.
