Pictured Above: Junior Tyler Sanfillippo, who drove in three of Wagner's five runs this afternoon (Credit: Gerry Nelson Wall '81)
 
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Bridgeport, CT –  Junior 1B Tyler Sanfillippo powered the Wagner offense in support of a strong outing from starter McCae Allen as the Wagner baseball took the series finale at Sacred Heart, 5-4, on Sunday afternoon.
 
With the win, the Green & White move to 9-18 overall and 5-4 in Northeast Conference (NEC) games while the Pioneers fall to 10-19 and are also 5-4 in league contests.
 
Sanfillippo was one of three Wagner players with two hits on the afternoon as he was joined by senior 3B Will Johnson, who went 2-for-4 with a run scored and classmate Griffin Schneider, who went 2-for-5 with two runs scored.
 
Allen (2-4) worked a sharp six innings, allowing just one unearned run on five hits, while issuing three walks and striking out a season-best seven in earning his second victory of the season. Junior Nick Robino notched his fourth save of the season, tossing the final 1.1 frames.
 
Elijah Brown had three hits and scored two of the four Pioneers' runs. Anthony Porrino and Danny Glendon each had two hits with Porrino producing two of the four RBIs for SHU. Thomas Pinto (1-2) took the loss, allowing four runs (three earned) on four hits while walking two and striking out one.
 
It was a scoreless pitcher's duel over the first three innings before Wagner put up a four-spot in its half of the fourth inning.
 
Johnson drew a one-out walk before the next two batters, Schneider and sophomore Brandon Hall, each singled to load the bases. Sanfillippo got one of the biggest hits in the contest, a bases-clearing double to left field that gave the Green & White a 3-0 lead.
 
Freshman catcher Johnny Kampes then reached on a two-out fielding error by Jake Frasca at third, which allowed Sanfillippo to trout home for the fourth run in the inning.
 
In the top of the seventh, that Seahawks tacked on one more score to up the lead to 5-0 as Schneider connected on his first career home run in a Wagner uniform, a solo blast  to left field.
 
Sacred Heart staged a comeback, commencing in its half of the seventh. Brown reached on an infield single to the pitcher and came around to score the Pioneers' first run on a Porrino's first of two RBI hits that made it 5-1.
 
With two outs in the bottom of the eighth, the Pioneers scored twice to trim the Wagner lead to 5-3. Frasca and Brown had back-to-back singles before Porrino drove in his second run of the contest on a single of his own to right that plated Frasca. The next batter, Glendon, doubled, which scored Brown to cut the Seahawks' lead to two.
 
In the ninth, the Pios loaded the bases after Justin Levito singled and Justin Jordan walked. Both runners moved up on a wild pitch from Robino. before Alex Perry drew a walk to load the bases.
 
Robino struck out Isiah Daubon for the first out but plunked Frasca with a stray pitch, that closed the gap to 5-4.
 
The 2018 All-NEC First Teamer then retired Brown on strikes before getting Joe Emerson to ground out to second as sophomore Mike Ruggiero flipped the ball to senior Anthony Pecora for the final out of the game.
 
Wagner, who has now won two of three, return back home to Staten Island for the next four games, beginning on Wednesday, April 10, as the Green & White will host Rider at 6:00 p.m. at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.

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