THROGGS NECK, N.Y. – The Manhattanville College baseball team was swept on Sunday by Skyline foe Maritime College in a conference doubleheader. The Valiants fell to 10-16 overall and 4-6 in conference play following the losses.
Game One Recap: Manhattanville 8, Maritime 13
The Privateers scored seven runs in the first, putting the Valianta in a hole they would be unable to fight back from over the duration of the opener.
Maritime recorded eight base hits in the first inning to plate their seven runs, chasing
Alby Ciuffetelli (Mahopac, N.Y./Yorktown) from the game before he could record an out. A three run homer and a pair of RBI singles plated five runs before
Jackson Branigan (Yonkers, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac) received an early call from the pen when he would allow two inherited runners to score on a single and a sacrifice fly before the inning finally came to a close.
The Valiants fired back in the second as
Chris Goohs (Nesconset, N.Y./Smithtown H.S. East) hit the first home run of his career, a three-run blast that scored
Frank Delgado (West Nyack, N.Y./Clarkstown South) and
Joshua Gillison (Buchanan, N.Y./Hendrick Hudson). However, with the Valiants threatening to make it a game again, Maritime added a run of their own in the second before putting another five on the board in the third to run out to a 13-3 advantage.
Manhattanville showed some life with runs in each of the final three innings, but the ten run deficit was simply too much to overcome.
Tyler Mandel (Scarsdale, N.Y./Scarsdale) and
Marco Clara (Syosset, N.Y./Syosset) with both hit by pitches with the bases loaded in the fifth to bring home a pair of runs before Delgado beat out an infield single to score
Brian Bornkamp (North Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) with the third run of the frame. Mandel collected an RBI single in the sixth while
Gregory Tashik (Midland Park, N.J./Midland Park Jr./Sr.) drew a bases loaded walk in the seventh to account for the Valiants' offensive production.
Bornkamp went 3-for-3 with a walk in the opener, while Delgado had a pair of hits.
Jack Taggart (Levittown, N.Y./Division Avenue) was the most effective of Manhattanville's five pitchers to take to the mound, tossing three shutout innings while allowing just two hits and a walk with a pair of strikeouts.
Game Two Recap: Manhattanville 6, Maritime 12
The Valiants had a better start at the plate in the game two, but Manhattanville was unable to match the pace of the Privateer bats as five unanswered Maritime runs led the home team to a doubleheader sweep.
Manhattanville scored twice in the first, with Bornkamp reaching on a leadoff walk and coming around to score on a wild pitch. Mandel drilled his fourth home run of the season later in the inning, a solo shot that put the Valiants up 2-0. The lead was short lived as Maritime hit a pair of homers of their own in the bottom half to go up 3-2.
In the third, the Valiants used three hits and a Maritime error for a three-spot. A fielder's choice off the bat of
Michael Musantry (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) brought home Bonrkamp with the tying run before back-to-back RBI singles from
Joseph McDonald (Coram, N.Y./Longwood) and
Michael Matica (Pleasantville, N.Y./Pleasantville) gave Manhattanville a 5-3 advantage. The bottom half played out the same as it did the last time Manhattanville went in front, however, as the Privateers tied the game with a two run homer before a run-scoring wild pitch later in the inning put Maritime up 6-5.
The teams traded a run apiece in the fourth, with the Valiants getting theirs on a Bornkamp groundout which scored
Jake Parisi (Centereach, N.Y./Centereach). An RBI double by the Privateers in the bottom half of the inning reestablished Maritime's lead at 7-6.
The Valiant bats went cold over the final five innings, totaling just one hit over the remainder of the contest. Maritime capitalized with an insurance run in the fifth before blowing the game open with four runs in the seventh. Manhattanville would not get a runner on base after the fifth inning as Maritime's William Chu and Joseph Sorge combined for four no-hit innings out of the pen, striking out six. Sorge would record a three inning save with five punchouts for the Privateers.
Chris Antonelli (Yonkers, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac) made the start for the Valiants, going 3.1 innings and allowing seven earned runs on six hits and three walks, striking out four.
Sean Demo (Cape May, N.J./St. Peter's Prep) threw 2.2 relief innings, allowing three runs, while
Matthew Messina (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) closed out the game with two innings of his own, surrendering a pair of runs.
Up Next
The Valiants have a tough task ahead of them on Wednesday as they host the reigning national champions Eastern Connecticut for a single game at 4 p.m.
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