March 29, 2008
Game Two Box Score
Game One Box Score
Staten Island, NY - The Wagner Seahawks posted a come-from-behind 2-1 game two victory over Maine after losing game one 6-2 at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark. With the split the Seahawks move to 6-10 while the Black Bears are 6-12.
In game two, Maine struck first in the second inning. Myckie Lugbauer doubled to right field to lead off the inning. After advancing to third, he scored on a Kevin McAvoy sacrifice fly. The Black Bears had a chance to add to the lead but were stymied with runners on the corners when freshman LHP Jack Rice (Middlesex, NJ / Immaculata) induced a grounder to short, ending the frame.
The run looked like it would hold up as Maine RHP Kevin Scanlon cruised through the first four innings, facing just one over the minimum. That all changed in the fifth.
Freshman Seth Boyd (Perth Amboy, NJ / Perth Amboy) walked with one out before moving to second on a single to left off the bat of junior Chris Drechsel (Cranford, NJ / Cranford). Sophomore Kevin Payne (Staten Island, NY / St. Peter's) doubled to right, scoring Boyd while tying the score at 1-1. Freshman Brian Martutartus (Carlsbad, CA / La Costa Canyon) gave the Green & White the lead at 2-1 with a sacrifice fly to center that scored Drechsel.
That would be all the Seahawks would need on the day. Junior RHP Andrew Huebner (Hatfield, PA / North Penn) entered in the sixth and threw 2.0 shutout innings of relief in recording his second save of the year.
Huebner was helped out by Drechsel, who threw a runner out trying to steal in the sixth before gonig over the dugout rail to make an incredible catch in the top of the seventh.
Rice moved to 3-0 to start his collegiate career, yielding just one run on four hits and two walks over 5.0 innings.
Scanlon (0-2) was the tough-luck loser, striking out eight and yielding two runs on three hits and two walks over 6.0 innings.
Maine out-hit Wagner 6-3 but stranded five runners, compared to just two for the Green & White.
In game one, the Seahawks struck for two first-inning runs only to see the Black Bears put up a four spot in the second on their way to a 6-2 victory.
Sophomore Damian Csakai (Freehold, NJ / Freehold) led off the game with a single to the shortstop. Boyd followed with a walk. After a strikeout, sophomore Vin Avella (Matawan, NJ / CBA) was hit by a pitch to load up the bases. Freshman Matt Logan (Wall, NJ / Wall) brought Csakai and Boyd home with a single through the right side to put Wagner in front 2-0.
Maine answered immediately, loading the bases with no outs in the second. Sophomore RHP Kyle Morrison (Middlesex, NJ / Immaculata) then got the next two batters out before Tony Patane laced a bases-clearing double to left field. Billy Cather capped the scoring with a RBI single up the middle to extend the lead out to 4-2.
Morrison then settled down, facing the minimum 12 batters over the next 4.0 innings before running into trouble in the seventh. Maine loaded the bases with one out. The Black Bears would push two more runs across on a hit batsman and a sacrifice fly to provide the game's final 6-2 score.
Wagner had its chances, stranding seven while matching the Black Bears with six hits.
Maine's Joe Miller (3-1) picked up the complete-game win, striking out eight while scattering eight hits and two runs over 7.0 innings. Morrison (0-2), struck out five and gave up six runs over 7.0 innings while recording his first complete game of the year.
Drechsel led Wagner on the day going 2-5 with a run on the offensive end while throwing out 4-of-6 would-be base-stealers while Csakai had two hits and Boyd scored twice. Cather paced the Black Bears with two hits and two RBI on the day.
The two teams will complete their four-game set with a doubleheader tomorrow at 12 pm at the Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
