Dominican Trips Up Baseball, 8-4
Box Score
BROOKVILLE, N.Y. (March 30, 2009) - Despite outhitting their opponents by a 13-11 count, the baseball team was plagued with control issues, and issues 12 walks on the afternoon as they fell to the Dominican Chargers, 8-4, in a chilly Monday afternoon non-conference baseball game.
The Chargers improve to 12-8 overall while the Pioneers fall to 7-18.
Dominican jumped out to an early 1-0 lead following two walks, a single, and another walk which plated the run.
The Chargers doubled their lead in the fourth as control problems continued for the Pioneer pitching staff. Two walks followed by a sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third for Tom Maloney, who's sacrifice fly to center scored a run for a 2-0 lead.
Dominican pushed their lead to 5-0 in the fifth as a Xavier Bonilla double scored two runs and a Mario Lopez sacrifice fly added one more.
The Pioneers were finally able to get a run on the board in the sixth as
Kyle Walker (Wantagh, N.Y.) hit a one-out single to shortstop.
Bryan Bonin (Commack, N.Y.) and
Anthony Montesano (Bellmore, N.Y.) followed with singles of their own to score Walker for the team's first run of the day.
The Pioneers scored three runs in the seventh to pull within one run, 5-4, capped by
Mike Callaghan's two-out, two-RBI double down the left field line.
C.W. Post put a runner on third with only one out in the bottom of the eighth, but could not push the run across, and three runs in the ninth for Dominican put the game away for the Chargers.
Steven Ferarra (Farmingville, N.Y.) took the loss, throwing two innings and giving up one earned run.
Brett Belsky (Brooklyn, N.Y.) tossed a strong three innings in relief, holding the Chargers to two hits and no runs.
Walker and Callaghan each went 3-for-5 to lead the offense, and
Jordan Stevens (Sound Beach, N.Y.) added two hits.
C.W. Post returns to action on Thursday, April 2, as they travel to Bridgeport for an ECC game, starting at 3 p.m.