Baseball Downs Dominican, 5-4
Box Score
ORANGEBURG, N.Y. (March 27, 2012) – The C.W. Post baseball team defeated Dominican College 5-4 on Tuesday afternoon in non-conference baseball action at Veteran's Park.
The Pioneers improve to 11-10 overall while Dominican slips to 6-16 on the season.
C.W. Post took a 3-0 lead in the first, as
Angel Pimentel (New York, N.Y.) gave the Pioneers a quick lead after reaching on a single, stealing second, and scoring on
Rich Maccarone's (Glen Cove, N.Y.) infield single. Maccarone stole second, then after two walks, scored on a single to left by
Gabriel Santos (Jamaica, N.Y.). Another run came on a groundout by
Anthony Brunetti (Bayville, N.Y.).
Dominican made it a 3-1 game as Andrew Camardella stroked an RBI double in the bottom of the inning.
C.W. Post added a run in the second on
Matt Simone's (West Islip, N.Y.) RBI groundout that made the score 4-1.
Dominican cut the lead to two as Peter Martinez doubled to drive in a run in the third.
But both pitchers settled in and held one another scoreless for the next for innings. Freshman
Joey Arena (Yorktown, N.Y.) threw 7.0 innings and gave up two runs on five hits, walking three and striking out seven. Dominican's Caleb Whiteley also threw well, going 8.0 innings and giving up four runs on six hits.
Kevin Chenicek (Levittown, N.Y.) came on in the eighth and the Chargers scored two runs off him as Camardella roped his second double of the day, a two-run hit to left center. But Chenicek got a strikeout and a popup to end the inning with the score tied 4-4.
The Pioneers went ahead in the ninth as Pimentel reached on an error, stole second, then advanced to third on an error by the catcher. He scored on Maccarone's line-drive sacrifice fly to center field for a 5-4 Pioneer lead.
Anthony Zapulla (Staten Island, N.Y.) got the save as he threw a scoreless ninth.
Offensively, Maccarone and Brunetti each had two hits to pace the Pioneers.
C.W. Post will host Caldwell on Thursday at 3 p.m. in a non-conference game.