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Staten Island, NY - Central Connecticut earned up a sweep of today's doubleheader with Wagner at Richmond County Bank Ballpark with a 4-3 wire-to-wire win in game two.

With the victories, the Blue Devils improve to 17-17 and 10-9 in the Northeast Conference (NEC) while the Seahawks fall to 14-22 and 7-8 in the league.

CCSU opened the scoring with three first-inning runs, before holding off a number Wagner rallies en route to securing at least a split in the teams' four-game series.

In the top of the first inning, Central Connecticut used a two-out rally to assume an early 3-0 lead. After a pair of ground outs, JP Sportman singled, before Tyler McIntyre walked. Chris Renzoni then plated both runners with a bloop double down the left field line. After moving to third on a passed ball, Renzoni scored on on Josh Ingham's infield single to cap the scoring.

Wagner immediately answered with two runs in bottom part of the frame to trim the deficit to 3-2. Juniors Ian Miller (Downingtown, PA / Bishop Shanahan) and Chris Smith (Tampa, FL / Freedom / Ellsworth CC (IA)) led off with singles, before sophomore Nick Dini (Monroe Township, NJ / Monroe Township) drew a four-pitch walk. Miller then scored on a double-play grounder, before Smith crossed the plate thanks to a wild pitch.

The Blue Devils got one of those runs back in the top of the third inning. Sportman singled to lead off the inning, before McIntyre followed with a double. One out later, Ingham chased home Sportman with a sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 4-2.

As was the case in the first inning, the Seahawks responded in the bottom part of the frame. Freshman Ben Ruta (West Windsor, NJ / West-Windsor Plainsboro South) delivered a two-out single to score Dini, who had earlier reached with a one-out double.

After yielding a third-inning run, freshman RHP Mike Adams (Egg Harbor, NJ / Holy Spirit) settled down and allowed just one hit the rest of the way while providing arguably the play of the day. With no outs and Jeff Osak at first following a leadoff walk, Adams started the rarely seen 1-6-3 double play on Connor Fitzsimons' sacrifice bunt attempt. He then exited the inning with a nasty three-pitch strikeout of Nick Palmisano following a DelaCruz double.

He would allow just one runner to reach the rest of the way and retired the final eight batters he faced en route to notching his first career complete game.

Unfortunately for the Green & White, CCSU RHP Dominic Severino also settled down and retired the side in order in the bottom of the fourth before exiting in the fifth after Chase Gray's (Toms River, NJ / Toms River South / Seton Hall) two-out single. Reliever Brendyn Karinchak entered and picked off Gray to quell the Wagner threat.

The next time up, senior Jayson Keel (Starkville, MS / Starkville / Holmes CC) greeted Ingham, the Central Connecticut closer, with a single to right field. Ruta then bunted Keel over to second, before Ingham got the second out of the frame via a strikeout. Sophomore Tommy Mazurkiewicz (Neshanic Station, NJ / Somerville) then crushed a ball that had extra bases written on it to deep left field, only to be robbed at the wall by a leaping grab by Osak.

The Seahawks would again threaten in the seventh inning when Miller reached via a one-out infield single. Unfortunately, the Green & White centerfielder was picked off for the second out, before Ingham fanned Smith to end the game.

Miller notched his team-leading 15th multi-hit game in defeat, finishing up 2-for-4 with a run. Keel also had a solid game, going 2-for-3 while Gray extended his hitting streak to 11 games with his aforementioned fifth-inning single.

Adams (1-5) was the tough-luck loser, striking out three while yielding four runs, three earned, on six hits and three walks over a career-high 7.0 innings.

Sportman went 2-for-4 with two runs while Ingham and Renzoni added two RBI to pace CCSU on offense.

Severino (3-1) earned the win, allowing three runs on six hits and three walks with one strikeout over 4.2 innings of work while Ingham notched his seventh save with 2.0 scoreless innings of relief.

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Photography by Dave Saffran