Baseball Welcomes Mount Saint Mary in Regular Season Finale Trying to Clinch Tourney Berth

Game Information
Mount Saint Mary College (13-23, 7-7 Skyline) vs. St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) (19-16, 7-7 Skyline)
Date/Time:	Saturday, April 30 • 12 PM (DH)
Location:	Bellerose, N.Y.
Field:	Padavan-Preller Field
Coverage:	Live Stats: Game 1 | Game 2 Game Program
Team Links
Roster Schedule Statistics NCAA Rankings Roster Schedule Statistics NCAA Rankings
Skyline:	Standings | Statistical Leaders Preseason Poll
Series History
All-Time Series:	Mount Saint Mary leads 4-0
Last Meeting:	Mount Saint Mary won 8-2
Date | Location:	4/26/2013 | Fishkill, N.Y.
Streak:	Mount Saint Mary won 4

The Bear Facts

• The Bears and Knights enter the final weekend of the regular season in a three-tie with Purchase and two spots in the Skyline Championship up for grabs.
• St. Joseph's carries a level .500 league record at 7-7 after dropping a pair to regular season champion Farmingdale State on Saturday, but sweeping Mount Saint Vincent on Sunday to remain in contention for a Skyline Championship berth.
• The Bears lead the Skyline in batting average (.314) and hits (356). The Bears are ranked second in the league in in doubles (62), home runs (20), runs (229), slugging (.442), strikeout-to-walk ratio (2.14), fielding percentage (.969) and double plays (22).
• Brian Luebcke is putting the finishing touches on a prolific senior campaign that sees him leading the team at the plate and on the mound. The 3-time Skyline Player and 1-time Pitcher of the Week improved to 5-1 on Sunday with a complete-game 5-hitter, becoming the 6th Bear to record 100 career strikeouts. He paces the team at the dish with a .387 average and league-leading 44 RBI (28th in D3). He needs just one hit, one at bat and two doubles from tying the Bears single-season record in each category and one hit away from breaking the record in total bases.
• With a 5-for-7 day with 4 RBI on Sunday, junior Michael Camerada became the 13th Bear to join the 100-Hit Club, doing so in 99 games played. He launched his 5th home run of the season (T-3rd in Skyline) and is second on the team in batting and slugging (.623, 4th in Skyline).

Skyline Championship Scenarios

• The Bears will earn a spot in the six-team Skyline Championship in one of the three scenarios:
  1. Bears sweep Mount Saint Mary
  2. Bears split with MSMC and Purchase splits with SJC Long Island or SJC Long Island sweeps Purchase.
  3. MSMC sweeps Bears and SJC Long Island sweeps Purchase
• Additionally, the Bears can finish as high as 4th place if they sweep MSMC, Purchase sweeps SJC Long Island and Farmingdale State sweeps Maritime, creating a four-way tie at 9-7.

The Knightly News

• Kevin Duffy leads the pitching staff with 8 starts and a 4-3 record working a team-leading 49.1 innings, striking out 43. Chris Wolfe follows in the rotation with a 2-3 record over 7 starts and 33.1 innings of work. MSMC also relies on a quartet of middle relievers (Ryan Turton, James McCleary, Sean Betterly, Nick Peterson) that have combined for 3 wins and 3 saves with a 3.19 ERA over 43 appearances and 62 IP.
• Senior Matt Cahill, a second-team All-Skyline selection in 2015, is the only Knight to start every game and paces the team at the plate with a .347 average, .425 slugging with 16 RBI, also swiping a team-high eight stolen bases.
• Junior Rob Peccerillo is the top run producer with 18 RBI in only 27 games played also knocking 6 extra-base hits.

Support the Bears Fundraiser for Go4theGoal

Throughout the season, members of the Bears Baseball team wore Gold Laces as part of the Go4theGoal Foundation's Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer initiative.

Lace Up 4 Pediatric Cancer began in the fall of 2011. Since then, professional, college and youth teams have participated in raising funds and awareness for kids battling cancer, the #1 disease killer of children. To date, over 250,000 athletes have Laced Up to show their commitment to the fight against pediatric cancer.

Throughout the season, SJC Baseball has been raising funds to meet their team goal of $1000 with all proceeds benefitting Go4theGoal Foundation.

Go4theGoal's unwavering mission is to improve the lives of children battling cancer by providing financial support, developing and implementing unique hospital programs, funding innovative research, and granting personal wishes. Go4theGoal provides the best practices to patients, their families, and the hospitals and staff that care for them. Go4theGoal has been named a "Top Rated Nonprofit" by Great Nonprofits from 2012-2015.

The team had planned for Stephanie Consiglio, a sixth-grader currently battling cancer, to attend a home game as a ball girl, but unfortunately has not been able to attend a game. Her biography about her fight against cancer is below. 

To help support the Bears' efforts in the fight against pediatric cancer, contact assistant coach Mike Kondel (mkondel@sjcny.edu) to make a donation.

#CANCER MESSED WITH THE WRONG DANCER

My name is Stephanie Consiglio and I am an eleven-year-old 6th grader from Queens, New York.  I am an avid dancer that fell in love with being on stage the first time I had the privilege of performing for an audience. Dance is not something I do - dance is who I am. 

In December of 2015, I was diagnosed with cancer. The doctors found cancerous tumors in my pelvis and even though they were removed, cancer cells remained in my body. I found out about my cancer diagnosis during Christmas Week and began chemo immediately. I will never forget the moment that my parents told me I had cancer. I was confused and scared at the same time but I also knew that I wanted to keep living my life. After my first chemo treatment, I announced to my parents that "cancer messed with the wrong dancer". I made a decision that day to not let cancer keep me from doing what I love the most. That very first week, despite a surgery and very long chemo days, I went to dance every single day. I refused to sit home and let cancer take over my life. I was going to show cancer who the boss was in this relationship!

My hair began to fall out very quickly after my first chemo treatment and the thought of losing my hair was terrifying. I am a girl that LOVES her hair and I couldn't imagine what life was going to be like without it. To my surprise, I realized that losing my hair actually made me feel FREE and it gave me a lot of extra time in the morning! I worried that it would affect my dancing, but in the end I dance with my heart, not my hair and I didn't need my hair to make me look beautiful on stage since now my dancing would speak for itself. I have learned that I am imperfectly perfect just the way I am!

Throughout this whole experience, I adapted the attitude that I was going to "dance through cancer" and throughout my treatment I did not miss a single day of dance. I went to my studio 5-6 days a week and it was my love of dance and the support from my dance community that kept me going each and every day. I have really big dreams and I plan on making them come true, with or without cancer!!!!!

#cancer messed with the wrong dancer!!!!!