April 19, 2008
Box Score
Teaneck, NJ - Down to their final out of the game, sophomore Damian Csakai (Freehold, NJ / Freehold) laced a RBI triple to right-center, scoring classmate Kevin McDonnell (Bristol, CT / Avon Old Farms) to tie the game up at 1-1. Then after a walk, Csakai stole home when sophomore Kevin Payne (Staten Island, NY / St. Peter's) purposely got hung up in a run down.
Joe Testa (Brick, NJ / Brick) then closed out the game with a scoreless seventh to improve to 4-4. The senior lefty, fanned nine while yielding just a single unearned run on two hits and two walks over 7.0 innings of work. It marks the second-straight start that Testa has not allowed a earned run while extending his scoreless inning streak to 17.2 innings. Testa leads the Green & White in wins (4), strikeouts (50), innings pitched (55.1) and opposing batting average (.195) with a NEC-best 1.95 ERA.
In three career games against the Knights, Testa is 3-0 with 29 strikeouts, against just five walks, three complete games and a miniscule 0.43 ERA over 21.0 innings.
With the win, the Seahawks snapped a three-game losing streak in improving to 14-17 and 6-4 in the Northeast Conference (NEC) while the Knights fall to 8-25 and 3-6 in the NEC.
FDU took the first lead of the game in the bottom of the sixth on an unearned run. Vincent Pennacchio singled to lead off the frame. Pinch runner Patrick Furey moved over to third on a throwing error before Jeff Vincent brought Pennacchio around with a sacrifice fly.
Prior to that point neither team could get anything going on offense. FDU starting pitcher and Staten Island native John O'Hara was outstanding on the day, striking out a career-high 13 batter over 7.0 innings while carrying a no hitter into the fifth inning. The hard-throwing lefty also set a school-record with his 236th career strike out in the first and fanned the side in the third and sixth innings but fell to 2-5 on the year, yielding two seventh-inning runs on three hits and two walks.
The Knights had a chance to score in the bottom of the third as they had runners on the corners with one out. Testa however induced Vincent into a 4-6-3 double play to escape the first serious jam of the game.
McDonnell got Wagner's first hit of the game in the top of the fifth with a line-drive single up the middle but was stranded at second.
Freshman Jack Rice (Middlesex, NJ / Immaculata) singled in the sixth for Wagner's second hit of the game but would advance no further.
