April
21, 2002
Baseball Splits
Doubleheader at Quinnipiac
Knights win opener 9-6, in 10
innings.
Box
Score
Hamden,
Conn. –
Fairleigh Dickinson scored three times in the top of the tenth inning in
game one of a doubleheader at Quinnipiac, to pull out a 9-6 win.
Quinnipiac won the night cap 13-2. The Knights moved to 5-25
overall and 4-14 in NEC play.
In game one, FDU scored six runs in the
top of the first, only to have QU claw back and tie the game after five
innings. However, the Knights scored three times in the top of the tenth
inning and pulled out a 9-6 win over Quinnipiac.
The Knights got to Quinnipiac pitcher
Chris Gresh early in the first game, highlighted by a three-run blast
from Pat Geroni. The Knights seemed to have the game well in hand after
posting a half dozen runs before the hosts even came to the plate.
Quinnipiac battled back, scoring twice in
the first, once in the third and three times in the fifth. Steve
Silverstein had the big hit in the fifth inning, a two-run triple. Dan
Abrahams then tied the game with a run-scoring single.
The hosts nearly won the game in the
bottom of the seventh. With the winning run on third base, Keith Avery
lined a shot back up the middle that just tipped off of the glove of
pitcher Robert Roll. Second baseman Tom McLaughlin snared it and
forced out a runner at second base for the third out.
Fairleigh Dickinson then touched Buddy
Bengel for three runs on three hits in the top of the 10th. Pat Nugent's
RBI double gave the Knights the lead, and Travis Alderman followed with
a two-run single.
Junior
pitcher John Melillo tossed a nine inning complete-game, allowing just
five hits, helping Quinnipiac salvage the split.
Behind a 10-hit attack and Melillo's
fifth win of the year, Quinnipiac cruised to a 13-2 win in the nightcap.
Quinnipiac came out with a flurry in the
second game, scoring at least one run in each of the first five innings.
Avery, D'Elia and Albert Marano each had two hits in the contest.
Pinch hitter Rob Cicarini smacked a
pinch-hit two-run home run in the eighth inning for the Knights.
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