Cutrone and McKenna Extend Streaks, But Baseball Tripped Up At Staten Island
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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St. Joseph's (Bklyn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 |
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Staten Island | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | X | 4 | 6 | 0 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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St. Joseph's (Bklyn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
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Staten Island | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | X | 7 | 9 | 2 |
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.—The St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) baseball team concluded a busy five-game weekend dropping both ends of a doubleheader, 7-3 and 4-0, to interborough rivals College of Staten Island on Sunday afternoon at the Tomas D. Morales Field.
Seniors Thomas McKenna (Bellerose, N.Y./St. Francis Prep) and Chris Cutrone (Levittown, N.Y./Island Trees) continued their consistent hitting to pace the Bears (11-14) at the plate collecting three hits each. Cutrone extended his hitting streak to a team season-high-tying 12 games with a double while McKenna belted a double and triple and pushed his streak to nine games. Sophomore Francis Rapp (Baldwin, N.Y./Oceanside) also knocked three hits on the afternoon.
The Dolphins (12-9) took control of both games from the outset, scoring four runs in the second inning of the opener and building 5-0 lead before the Bears could get on the board with a solo run in the fifth when McKenna knocked a one-out double, advanced on a wild pitch and scored on a Brian Luebcke (Astoria, N.Y./Woodside, N.Y.) grounder.
Staten Island extended their lead to 7-1 entering the Bears final at bat and St. Joseph's made some noise in the seventh loading the bases with no outs, but the Dolphins surrendered a run—McKenna's second of the game—in turning a double play and Nicholas LoPrinzi (Howard Beach, N.Y./St. Francis Prep) delivering another run with a two-out double, but that would be all the scoring for the Bears.
In game two, a solo blast from Elijah Rodriguez to lead off the first would prove to be the difference as the hosts scored a pair of runs in the frame to jump out to an early lead and tacked on two more runs in the sixth on a Joe Palmeri two-run homer. The Bears knocked an equal six hits in the contest but couldn't push anyone across in suffering just their third shutout of the season.
St. Joseph's will return to action facing Maritime College on Wednesday, April 15 (a game originally scheduled for Thursday) for a single game in Throggs Neck, N.Y. starting at 7 p.m.