March 27, 2007

Box Score

YAPHANK, NY - Stony Brook University scored six runs in the third inning, helped by a pair of Pioneer errors, and used that to come away with an 8-4 win over Sacred Heart Tuesday afternoon.

Jeff Hanson gave SHU, 6-9, a 1-0 lead in the top of the first with an RBI single, but the Seawolves evened it with a run in the bottom of the inning. Hanson finished the game with three hits and three RBI, raising his season average to .365 with 17 RBI.

Another RBI single by Hanson in the third inning gave the Pioneers a 2-1 lead. With one out in the bottom of the inning, Stony Brook got back-to-back singles by Chris Sipp and Robert Dyer with one out. Robert Leonard then lifted a sacrifice fly to right for the second out to tie the score. Michael Tansey then singled to right and advanced to third on an error, allowing two more runs to score. Another error on a ball hit to right by Keith Fier opened the flood gates and the Seawolves led 7-2 at the end of the inning.

Chris Barthel came on in relief of starter Corey Corcoran in the fourth, and gave up a lead off triple to Brian Witkowski. He scored on a sac fly by Sipp. It was the only run Barthel gave up in four innings of relief.

The Pioneers got single runs in the fifth and eighth inning. Hanson drove in his third run of the day with a single in the fifth, and Ryan Nemcek drove in the fourth SHU run with a single that scored Rob Tencza in the eighth.

Jason Maiella and Frank Bainer had two hits apiece for the Pioneers.