Photo Credit: David Cohen
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Game 17 | March 20, 2019
Wagner College Seahawks (4-12) vs.
Saint Peter's University Peacocks (0-13)
Staten Island, NY | Richmond County Bank Ballpark
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Staten Island, NY – The Wagner College baseball team is back in action this afternoon as the Seahawks welcome the Saint Peter's University Peacocks to the Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George. First-pitch is slated for 3:00 p.m.
PROBABLE PITCHING MATCHUPS:
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SO |
BB |
| March 20, 2019 |
Wagner |
TBA |
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Saint Peter's |
TBA |
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// The Series:
» Wagner and Saint Peter's will be squaring off for the 40th time with the Seahawks holding a 26-13 series advantage.
» The Green & White holds a four-game win streak over the Peacocks, earning a 9-2 victory back on April 11, 2017 in Jersey City, NJ.
» The last time Saint Peter's earned a victory over Wagner was back on April 16, 2013, when the Peacocks defeated the Seahawks, 12-8, also in Jersey City.
// Head Coach Jim Carone Picks Up Career Win No. 175...
» In Sunday's Northeast Conference (NEC) weekend finale, the Seahawks blanked Mount St. Mary's, 4-0. The win, the fourth of the season for the Seahawks, marked the 175th career coaching victory for two-time NEC Coach of the Year,
Jim Carone.
» Carone is just one of two Wagner bench bosses to ever accumulate 175 or more wins, joining former Seahawk head coach, Joe Litterio, who amassed a program-record 240 career wins in 12 seasons on Grymes Hill.
ALL-TIME CAREER COACHING RECORD
| Coach |
Years |
Wins |
Losses |
Ties |
Pct |
| Joe Litterio |
12 |
240 |
372 |
2 |
.393 |
| JIM CARONE |
8 |
175 |
213 |
1 |
.451 |
| Herb Sutter |
16 |
149 |
128 |
7 |
.537 |
| Rich Vitaliano |
8 |
120 |
208 |
3 |
.367 |
// 350 Conference Wins For Wagner...
» When the Seahawks put the finishing touches on a 4-0 shutout victory over the Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers, the triumph gave the program its 350th all-time Northeast Conference (NEC) win.
» In 29 years of conference action, Wagner has posted a 350-357-0 all-time mark.
// Seahawks Sweep NEC Weekly Honors...
» The Wagner baseball team swept all three weekly Northeast Conference (NEC) honors as senior shortstop
Anthony Pecora (Player of the Week), junior right hander,
McCae Allen (Pitcher of the Week), and freshman left-handed pitcher
John LaPointe (Co-Rookie of the Week)
were all recognized by the league it was announced on Tuesday afternoon.
» With Tuesday's announcement, this marks the third time in program history that Wagner has had players home honors in all three weekly categories. Back on May 22, 2017, former Seahawk outfielder,
Anthony Godino (Player of the Week), current left-hander
Neil Abbatiello (Pitcher), and junior Freddy Sabdio (Rookie) each garnered weekly honors from the league.
// Joey Triples....
» In the series opener against the Mount on Friday afternoon, senior outfielder,
Joe Silvestrone, went 2-for-4 with two RBIs and a run scored. His two hits were both triples.
» Silvestrone became the first Seahawk to record two triples in the same contest since former Seahawk, Ed Sudol, did so against Lafayette back on March 29, 2007.
// Three Out Of Four...
» In Wagner's March 13 contest up at Fordham, senior shortstop
Anthony Pecora came within a home run of completing the cycle while finishing 3-for-5 with a run score in the Seahawk victory.
» The Mamaroneck, NY native led off the game with a double, added a single in the seventh and tripled in the eighth.
» He was one of three Seahawks to score a run in the victory, joining senior CF
Joe Silvestrone and junior 1B
Tyler Sanfillippo.
// About Saint Peter's:
» Saint Peter's is looking to halt a 13-game losing falling 9-7 against Albany on Tuesday afternoon.
» The Peacocks are looking for its first-win since defeating Siena in the final game of the 2018 season, 8-7.
» John Gavura leads the team with a .333 batting average. Nicholas Sciubba has scored a team-high 12 runs thus far this season.
» Steve Epstein has appeared in seven games this season, the most on the Saint Peter's pitching staff. He has also posted a 2.45 ERA while logging 14.2 innings. Edwin Feliciano has struck out a team-best 14 while walking a team-high 20 batters.
Wagner in 2018:
» The Green & White Seahawks are coming off a magical season, in which the ball club rewrote several records, including setting the new benchmark for wins in a single-season (38) and conference victories (21).
» Wagner rattled off two separate, nine-game winning streaks (March 10-25 & March 29-April 11), outscoring its opponents by a combined 151-to-66.
» The Seahawks concluded the 2018 season winning 13 of its final 17 contests to claim a share of the 2018 Northeast Conference (NEC) regular season championship, the first time program has done so since 2009.
» Wagner went 13-1 in home contests (7-0 at Richmond County Bank Ballpark at St. George) while leading the entire NCAA with 23 road triumphs a season ago.
» In the NEC, Wagner led the circuit in ERA (4.15) while finishing the regular season with a league-best .974 fielding percentage. The club ranked second in hits (505), total bases (751) and stolen bases (61).
» Individually, Wagner had a program-high six all-league selections, four of which being named to the First Team, which includes rising senior left-hander,
Neil Abbatiello, junior reliever,
Nick Robino and classmate,
Freddy Sabido, who returns as the team's leader in most offensive categories.
» Head Coach
Jim Carone, who embarks on his eighth season, was named NEC Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, becoming the first Wagner baseball head coach to win the award multiple times.
» Robino was named
2019 Collegiate Baseball Pre-Season All-American, powered by Diamond Sports and announced by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper back on December 18, 2018.
» Wagner was picked
third in the preseason coaches' poll that was announced back on February 1.
