PURCHASE, N.Y. - Kicking off their conference schedule, the Manhattanville baseball team swept visiting Yeshiva on Wednesday afternoon. Scoring 30 runs in the first game, the Valiants put together their highest run total since April of 2019, and the highest margin of run differential in program history. With the two wins, the Valiants now reside at 7-5, with a 2-0 record in conference play.
Game One: Manhattanville 30, Yeshiva 1 (Seven Innings)
The Valiants started off the scoring in the bottom of the first and never looked back, as Michael Musantry (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) drove in the first run of the game, with Joshua Gillison (Buchanan, N.Y./Hendrick Hudson) subsequently bringing home another baserunner on the next at-bat.
Manhattanville would put up a crooked number in the second inning, plating seven runs. Jake Parisi (Centereach, N.Y./Centereach) would drive in the first run of the inning with a double to left center, as Matt Louie (Yorktown Heights, N.Y./Yorktown) scored on a wild pitch in the next at-bat. Gregory Tashik (Midland Park, N.J./Midland Park Jr./Sr.) would hit a sacrifice fly to center field, plating another run, as the inning was highlighted by a Musantry inside-the-park home run, scoring three. Christian Amoruso (Smithtown, N.Y./Smithtown West) would double to left center to bring in the ninth run of the game, seeing the score sit at 9-0 at the end of the second inning.
Manhattanville would then score four more runs on five hits in the bottom of the third inning, leading into a seventeen-run fourth inning with the bright spot being a five-RBI inning for Jackson Branigan (Yonkers, N.Y./Archbishop Stepinac) with two doubles in his two plate appearances.
Matthew Messina (New Rochelle, N.Y./New Rochelle) would collect the win in the contest, as he went six innings, notching twelve strikeouts and only one earned run. Braden Kunda (Eastchester, N.Y./Eastchester) would make his first-ever appearance on the mound for the Valiants, striking out all three batters faced to close out the first match.
Game Two: Manhattanville 16, Yeshiva 1 (Seven Innings)
Ian Murray (Commack, N.Y./Commack) went the distance in the second game of the doubleheader, needed only 77 pitches to tally eight strikeouts.
The Maccabees took the lead early in the contest, bringing home Jesse Rosenblum from a Noam Ouanounou single to left center, making it a 1-0 ball game. Manhattanville would tie the score in the bottom of the opening stanza, as Musantry continued his hot day bringing home a runner from second base with a shot of his own to left center.
The Valiants took the lead in the bottom of the third with a Tashik double to left field, followed by another hit by Musantry bringing Tashik across the plate. Musantry made his way home from a wild pitch to put the score at 4-1.
The Valiants would add another five runs in the bottom of the next inning, thanks to two sacrifice flies. Seven more runs would come across for the Valiants in the fifth, seeing the score sit at 16-1 as the game was called.
Up Next
The Valiants return to Manhattanville Baseball Field tomorrow for one game against New Jersey City. First Pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
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