MYRTLE BEACH, SC – The Manhattanville College baseball team fell to the Johnson and Wales University Wildcats 7-5 in the third game of their 2019 Spring Break Trip Saturday, March 2.
For Manhattanville (1-2), junior
Matt Lynch (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) reached four base three times, going two-for-three with two walks and classmate
Peter Iannarilli (West Nyack, N.Y./Clarkstown South) launched his first home run of the season, reaching base three times in all, scoring twice. On the mound, freshman
Tyler Viscusi (Wappingers Falls, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham) threw 3.2 scoreless innings of relief in his first collegiate appearance, allowing four hits while striking out four and not yielding a single walk.
Manhattanville struck first with three in the top of the second inning. The first four batters of the inning all reached, with Iannarilli scoring on a single by fellow junior
Stephen Merrill (Poughkeepsie, N.Y./Roy C. Ketcham). After sophomore
Hathaway Roper (Stratford, Conn./Bunnell) scored on a wild pitch, with one out, senior
Luke Scoggins (Merrick, N.Y./Sanford H. Calhoun) singled home freshman
Zachary Feinstein (Stamford, Conn./Westhill), but that was all for Manhattanville, as the next two batters each struck out, stranding the bases loaded
Johnson and Wales (5-1) tied the game in the bottom half of the inning, with two runs coming home on a Colby Greenhalgh triple. The Wildcats added four more runs on four hits in the bottom of the fourth, opening a 7-3 lead
Iannarilli trimmed the lead to 7-4 with his four-bagger in the top of the seventh. Still trailing 7-4 with two out and nobody on in the ninth, the Valiants drew three straight walks to load the bases. Feinstein then reached on an error that plated sophomore
Luke Shaffer (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) and pushed the tying run into scoring position, but the Valiants couldn't extend the game any further, again stranding the bases loaded to end it.
Manhattanville wraps up its South Carolina trip tomorrow with a 9 a.m. first pitch against the Fredonia State Blue Devils.