April
17, 2002
NYIT BEARS TOP FAIRLEIGH
DICKINSON UNIVERSITY 15-12
Geroni hits two homers for Knights.
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Score
Old Westbury, NY:
Bryan Goelz homered and drove in four runs and Anthony St. George
homered as the Bears came back from a 7-3 deficit in the sixth inning
and hung on to defeat the Knights 15-12. The Bears improved to 23-9 on
the season. Fairleigh Dickinson University fell to 3-24 overall.
Jesse Thomas started
the scoring for the Knights with a two run homer over the center field
fence. The Bears answered
with three runs in the bottom of the inning.
Brian Goelz led off the inning with a walk and moved to second on
Mike Gaffney’s single. Goelz scored on the next play as the throw to
first on Brian Goldberg’s double play ball went into the Bears dugout.
Goldberg moved to second on the two base error and scored on Tom
Merkle’s RBI single. With the bases loaded Vincent Galea walked,
scoring Merkle for a 3-2 Bears lead.
The Knights tied the
game at 3-3 in the third when Jesse Thomas got his second hit of the
day, a single up the middle. Thomas
stole second, moved over to third on an infield single and scored on a
fielder’s choice.
The Knights took a 5-3
lead fifth on Pat Geroni’s two run homer and then went up 7-3 in the
top of the sixth, scoring on a passed ball and a wild pitch.
The Bears came back in
the bottom of the sixth and tied the game in dramatic fashion. Bryan
Goelz reached on a fielding error by the second baseman and went to
second on Mike Gaffney’s third hit of the day, a single. Goelz and
Gaffney stole second and third, with Goelz eventually scoring on a
passed ball. Tom Merkle singled home Gaffney and Anthony St. Goerge
homered to deep straight away center field for the second consecutive
day, tying the game at 7-7.
The Knights took an 8-7
lead in the top of the seventh as Matt Nugent reached on an error,
eventually scoring on a fielders choice.
Kevin Perrucci scored in the bottom of the seventh, tying the
game 8-8 after he was hit by a pitch, advanced to second on a wild
pitch, advanced to third on a passed ball and was driven in by a Brian
Goelz RBI groundout.
Ed Gillespie came in on
relief in the seventh and pitched 1.2 innings of shut out baseball,
effectively keeping the Bears in the game. Gillespie would earn his
second victory of the season as the Bears exploded for seven runs in the
bottom of the eighth, capped off by a Brian Goelz two run homer.
Gillespie loaded the bases and gave up a bases clearing double to Tom
McLaughlin before striking out Lenny Armenti to end the top of the
ninth.
The Knights next travel
to Connecticut for a three-game NEC series at Quinnipiac over the
weekend.
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