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Staten Island. NY – The Wagner College baseball staged a late rally in the bottom of the ninth inning, cutting Stony Brook's lead in half before falling by a 4-2 count in game one of Saturday's non-conference doubleheader from the Richmond County Bank Ballpark.
With the loss, Seahawks fell to 15-29 on the year while the Seawolves improved to 26-19.
Prior to the start of game one of Saturday's Wagner recognized its 11 seniors in an on the field ceremony.
Senior
Joe Silvestrone led the way at the plate for the Green & White, going 4-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored. Five Seahawks also had a hit in the contest, including sophomore
Emil Matti, seniors
Anthony Pecora and
Will Johnson, sophomore
Mike Ruggiero, and freshman
Shamus Connolly.
Eric Ligda (0-6) went five innings in his final home start, allowing two runs on four hits while walking two and striking out three. Junior right-hander,
Ryan Lauk, came on and tossed the final four frames, giving up two unearned runs on just two hits while walking two and striking out one.
Chris Hamilton and Sean Buckhout each had two RBIs for the visiting Seawolves with Hamilton collecting a team-high two hits. Greg Marino earned the win, allowing just three hits in six scoreless innings of work to go along with four strikeouts. Sam Turcotte earned the save for Stony Brook, his sixth of the season.
The visitors got on the board first with a pair of runs in their half of the third inning. Brandon Janofsky singled to center and moved into scoring position after stealing second. Nick Grande doubled, that gave SBU runners in scoring position with one out. Hamilton sent Ligda's 0-1 pitch to center that plated home both runners.
The game remained that way until the bottom of the eighth, when Wagner cut the deficit in half, 2-1. With one out, Silvestrone singled to center that started a stretch of back-to-back base hits, with Pecora driving in Silvestrone on an RBI single to right.
In the ninth, the Seawolves tacked on two more runs in building a 4-1 lead, with the big hit coming off the bat of Buckhout, who doubled down the left field line, scoring both John Tuccillo and Brandon Alamo.
The Seahawks staged a rally in the bottom of the ninth.
Eric Lauk came on as a pinch-hitter, and walked. Connolly, who replaced Ruggiero, singled to left center to gave Wagner a pair of runners on with one out. Following a strikeout of freshman catcher,
Johnny Kampes, Silvestrone connected on his fourth hit of the afternoon, an RBI single to left that cut the Stony Brook lead to 4-2.
The Seawolves closed out the game as Matti grounded out to short with Grande flipping the ball over to Janofsky for the final out of the contest.
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