Baseball Falls To Quinnipiac in Conference Doubleheader |
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4/24/06 -– The Long Island University baseball team dropped a Northeast Conference baseball doubleheader against Quinnipiac on Monday afternoon at Bobcat Field in Hamden, Conn. The Bobcats won game one 3-2 in eight innings and took game two, 7-0 in a darkness-shortened five-inning game. In game one, Anthony Amatucci (Toms River, N.J.) led off the inning with a single down the left field line and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Marcus Wynn (Plainfield, N.J.) singled, also on the left side, and Amatucci advanced to third. Sophomore Bryan Burke (Lindenhurst, N.J.) brought Amatucci home on a left side single to make cut the margin to 2-1. Frank DiMasi (Staten Island, N.Y.) led off the top of the seventh with a pinch-hit homer to left center to tie the game at 2-2. With the bases loaded in the eighth inning, QU’s Jeff Mainetti singled to bring home Kevin MacIlvane for the 3-2 victory. The Blackbirds game one starting pitcher Mike Maynard (Staten Island, N.Y.) allowed two runs, one earned, on nine hits in seven innings. Senior Pete Orsi (Brooklyn, N.Y.) relieved Maynard allowing one run on three hits. In game two, Quinnipiac scored three in the bottom of the first. The home team added two more runs in the bottom of third with a two-run double by John Delaney to stretch the lead to 5-0. The Bobcats tacked on two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to build a 7-0 lead. Game play was suspended after four and a half innings. Junior Rich Moran (Carmel, N.Y.)
threw three innings, giving up five runs, four earned, on six
hits. He
struck two,
walked two, and falls to 2-7. |