Old Westbury Sinks Baseball in Series-Opening Doubleheader
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Old Westbury | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 16 | 1 |
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St. Joseph's (Bklyn) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 6 |
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
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Old Westbury | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 15 | 1 |
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St. Joseph's (Bklyn) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
PATCHOGUE, N.Y. — The St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) baseball team (0-4, 0-2 Skyline) dropped their series-opening twin bill against the College at Old Westbury (2-0, 2-0 Skyline), 15-5, and 16-1, on Saturday afternoon from the SJC Outdoor Field Complex.
Game 1: Old Westbury 15, St. Joseph's 5
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The Panthers opened the scoring with six runs in the first two innings – headlined by homers off the bats of John DellOlio and Oscar Fajardo – before Nick Tapio's RBI double grabbed a pair of runs back in the Bears' half of the second.
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William DeLuca's RBI double of his own in the third cut the deficit to three, 6-3.
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Louis Lombardi came on, with two outs in the second, to pitch three scoreless innings in middle relief for freshman righty Andrew Monda (0-2), who dropped his second straight decision.
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Old Westbury further distanced themselves courtesy of Fajardo's second home run of the game in the top of the sixth, seeing their lead grow to 10-3.
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Chris Leary's double down the left-field line in the next half-inning brought in a run; the only Bear to have a multi-hit game going 2-5 at the plate.
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A bases-loaded walk to Thomas Airey brought in SJC's second run of the frame before a five-run top of the seventh extended the Panthers' lead, resulting in the 15-5 final.
Game 2: Old Westbury 16, St. Joseph's 1
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Old Westbury commanded the lead from the opening inning, carrying a 9-0 advantage into the bottom of the fifth.
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Lucas Collet's double in the Bears' half of the fifth was their first hit of the contest. He scored on a Nick Tapio sac fly, who notched three RBI over the two games.
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TJ Moussette joined Collet as the only players on the hit column with a leadoff single in the sixth.
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The Panthers sealed the 16-1 victory thanks to a four-run sixth inning and a three-run seventh.
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Matt McHugh (0-2) started on the bump for the Bears, striking out four batters, before being pulled after 4.1 innings.
Up Next
The four-game set concludes on Sunday, March 21 when the Panthers host the Bears on the campus of Farmingdale State College. The action begins at 11 am with live stats and video available on SJCBears.com.