POMONA, N.Y. (Apr. 28, 2021) – Despite home runs from graduate student Anthony Murphy (Peekskill, N.Y./Peekskill) and sophomore Justin Glennerster (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph by the Sea), the Mercy College baseball team dropped a 6-5 decision in 10 innings to ECC foe No. 20 St. Thomas Aquinas College on Wednesday afternoon.
The Mavericks (14-8, 10-4 ECC) see their six-game winning streak come to an end, while the Spartans (17-2, 11-2 ECC) remain in first place in the ECC standings.
Murphy went 1-for-4 with his fourth home run of the season and Glennerster went 1-for-4 with his first collegiate home run. Sophomore Nolan Giblin (Syracuse, N.Y./Jamesville Dewitt) went 1-for-4 with a team-high two RBI and senior Cain Ruiz (Valley Stream, N.Y./Cornerstone University) went 2-for-4. Junior Charles Lebron (Brooklyn, N.Y./Franklin Pierce University) went 1-for-3 and graduate student Miguel Ortiz Sanchez (Bronx, N.Y./Monroe College) went 1-for-5. Freshman Ryan Rozinski (Middletown, N.J./Middletown North) made the start and went two innings with no runs allowed. Junior Austin DeRosa (Seymour, Conn./Seymour) pitched a scoreless inning of relief and freshman Gaetano Pennisi (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph by the Sea) pitched 0.2 innings with one run allowed to take the loss.
STAC was led by Brian Donnelly who went 1-for-5 with a home run. Angelo Baez pitched a scoreless 10th inning to earn the win.
Mercy scored a run in the top of the first to take a 1-0 lead Ortiz Sanchez singled and later scored on a Francisco Paulino (Haina San Cristobal, Dominican Republic/Monroe College) sacrifice fly.
The Mavericks added another run in the second to take a 2-0 lead. Ruiz singled and to lead off the inning and scored on a Giblin sacrifice fly.
Mercy made it 3-0 in the fourth when Giblin singled to center field to bring home junior Nikko Liguori (Branford, Conn./Franklin Pierce University) who had reached on a hit by pitch earlier in the inning. STAC made it 3-1 in the fourth when they scored a run on a sacrifice fly.
The Mavericks tacked on two more runs in the fifth when Murphy and Glennerster both homered to make it 5-1.
The Spartans scored a run in the fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth innings to tie the game at 5-5. After Mercy went down in order in the tenth, the Spartans scored the game-winning run in the bottom of the 10th on a Joseph Scamardella RBI single to earn the 6-5 win.
Head Coach Chris Schoen and the Mavericks resume action on Friday, April 30th when they host Lincoln at 12 p.m.