Schneeberg's Homer, Walk-Off Salvages Baseball's Skyline Split of Maritime

UNIONDALE, N.Y. — A five-run seventh-inning comeback, highlighted by Sean Schneeberg's (Columbia, Tenn./Del Oro) walk-off single, gave the St. Joseph's University, N.Y. (Brooklyn) baseball team an 8-7 win and doubleheader split over SUNY Maritime College on Sunday afternoon. The junior also hit a game-tying home run earlier in the contest.

A five-run SJBK rally in the sixth inning of game one forced extra innings before Maritime scored six in the bonus inning to claim an 11-5 win.

How it Happened (Game 1)

The Privateers hit the Bears for four in the second. Mike Santoriello (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph by the Sea) kept the visitors off the board over the next three innings.

Trailing 5-0 in the sixth, the Bears tied the contest courtesy of three bases-loaded walks, Justin Biordi's (Howard Beach, N.Y./Scholars' Academy) sacrifice fly, and TJ Moussette's (Centereach, N.Y./Newfield) double to right-center field.

A scoreless seventh forced an eighth inning, where a bases-clearing triple sparked Maritime's six-run stanza and an 11-5 win.

How it Happened (Game 2)

The visitors scored in each of the first two innings before Schneeberg's two-run homer over the left-field fence tied the affair at two.

The Privateers regained the advantage with a three-run top of the fifth. Chris Leary's (Floral Park, N.Y./Floral Park Memorial) two-bagger trimmed the Bears' deficit to 5-3 in the bottom half of the frame.

Maritime tacked on a pair of seventh-inning runs, giving them a 7-3 lead. The navy and gray's comeback bid began when a pair of runs crossed the plate on Leary's single. They came within a run on Collet's RBI single up the middle, 7-6.Serving as the game-winning run, Collet scored on Schneeberg's opposite-field knock to give the Bears the 8-7 win and doubleheader split.

For the Bears (Game 1)

• Schneeberg went 2-for-4 with a double and a run scored.

• Justin Biordi went 2-for-3 with an RBI.

• Leary, Mike Medina Jr. (Selden, N.Y./Newfield), and Matt Arcati (Brooklyn, N.Y./Williamsburg Prep) all had base hits.

• Santoriello struck out five in six innings. Sean Henris (Commack, N.Y./Commack), who pitched the final two innings, was dealt the defeat.

For the Bears (Game 2)

• Schneeberg finished 3-for-4 with a run scored and four RBI.

• Leary also went 3-for-4 with three RBI.

• Medina had a pair of hits and a run scored in three at-bats.

• Moussette and Louis Lombardi (Brooklyn, N.Y./St. Edmund Prep) each finished 1-for-3 with a run scored.

• Jake McDonald (Lynbrook, N.Y./Lynbrook), who came on to pitch for starter Justin Conaty (Brooklyn, N.Y./James Madison), picked up his first win of the season.

Up Next

The Bears and Manhattanville College will play Saturday's rained-out doubleheader on Monday, April 3 at 1 p.m. Live stats and video will be available on sjbkathletics.com/live.