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2/25/07
--The Long Island University baseball team suffered its
fourth straight loss to open the 2007 season, falling 7-4 at Eastern
Kentucky. Freshman Johnnie Neckar (Fort Myers, Fla.) drove in three
runs for the Blackbirds, including his first collegiate home run,
a solo shot.
Trailing 4-0, Neckar took Eastern Kentucky’s Chris Grider
deep in the top of the fifth. The freshman struck again in the
sixth inning with a one-out, bases-loaded single that brought home
senior James Adamo (Paramus, N.J.) and freshman Gerard Tingos (Staten
Island, N.Y.), who both reached on walks.
The Colonels answered back in the bottom of the sixth when Dylan
McMaine hit a solo homer off of Blackbirds’ starter Adam
Sauter (Kingsville, Md.). The freshman allowed five runs and 10
hits in his first collegiate appearance.
Long Island plated another run in the seventh to cut the score
to 5-4. Adamo drew a two-out walk off of David Owens and Tingos
drove him in with a single. Eastern Kentucky scored an insurance
run in the seventh and another in the ninth, both off senior John
Dooley (Deer Park, N.Y.), to secure the win.
Sauter (0-1) was saddled with the loss, while Grider (1-0) earned
the win. Eric Hash picked up his first save of the season for the
Colonels.
The Blackbirds will return to action with a three-game series at
Hartford, beginning with a doubleheader on Saturday, March 3 at
noon.
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