PURCHASE, NY – Sophomore
Matt Lynch (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) had three hits and three RBI's and junior
Kieran Corrigan (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) recorded his second multi-hit, multi-run game in three days for the Manhattanville College baseball team in a 10-5 non-conference win over the College of Mount Saint Vincent Dolphins Thursday afternoon at Manhattanville Field.
Senior
Jorge Castro (Yonkers, N.Y./Saunders) allowed just two earned runs in a season-high six innings for Manhattanville (13-15-1) and junior
Francisco Jaile (Hartsdale, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac) earned his first collegiate save allowing just two baserunners over the final three innings. Senior
Nick Campana (Yonkers, N.Y./St. John the Baptist Elementary) added two hits and scored two runs while junior
Luke Scoggins (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun) reached base four times in his five plate appearances. Matt Nesensohn finished 2-for-3 with two RBI's for Mount Saint Vincent (8-27).
The Valiants grabbed a 1-0 lead in the first when freshman
Luke Shaffer (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) drove in graduate student
Chris Conklin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Lakeland) with a sacrifice fly, but an error opened the door to a four-run second inning for the Dolphins. Mount Saint Vincent pushed another run across in the third following another Manhattanville error, but Castro settled down from there, allowing just two batters past second base over his final three innings of work.
Scoggins set the Manhattanville offense in motion in the third, drawing a one-out walk and stealing second base. After sophomore
Stephen Merrill (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) singled in Scoggins and Campana doubled Merrill to third, Corrigan singled in both, pulling the Valiants within one.
Lynch doubled with one out in the fourth, then stole third, preceding a walk to Conklin. On an attempted pickoff attempt, Conklin scampered down to second, beating the throw from the first baseman as Lynch crossed the plate with the tying run.
In the sixth, after walks to Lynch and Scoggins, junior
Michael Poggioreale (Thornwood, N.Y./Westlake) drove in Lynch with a go-ahead pinch-hit RBI single. The Valiants added two more in the seventh on RBI singles by Lynch and Scoggins. Lynch followed his RBI single in the seventh with a two-RBI base hit in the eighth for the final runs of the game.
The Valiants return to MACtion, weather permitting, tomorrow afternoon against Eastern in the MAC Freedom series opener. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.