Suffolk Takes Two from Lasell in GNAC Baseball Twinbill
NEWTON, Mass. (4/3/14) – The Lasell College baseball dropped both ends of a doubleheader to Suffolk University, 6-1 and 9-2 as they opened their Great Northeast Athletic Conference schedule Thursday afternoon. The Lasers fell to 5-8 overall and 0-2 in the conference while Suffolk improved to 9-7-1 on the year and 4-0 in the league.
Game One – Suffolk 6 – Lasell 1
Wes Hurty (Windsor, Conn.) paced the Lasers at the plate, going 2-for-3 at the plate with a pair of singles, Billy Uberti (Newton, Mass.) singled and scored a run while Matt Sammarco (New Canaan, Conn.) singled and drove in the lone run for Lasell. Greg Sherman (Marshfield, Mass.) took the loss on the hill for Lasell, yielding six runs, five earned, on eight hits while Rob Madden (Hingham, Mass.) tossed one and a third innings of scoreless relief.
Jon Lapolla (Providence, R.I.) hit a three run homerun and walked twice to lead the way for Suffolk. The Rams got a 2-for-3 effort from Mac Jacobson (Norfolk, Mass.) with two singles, a run and an RBI and JC Collette (Amesbury, Mass.) and Jake Cintolo (Wrentham, Mass.) each singled twice as well for Suffolk. Tim Conroy (Arlington, Mass.) threw a complete game for Suffolk, allowing one run on five hits while striking out five to earn the win.
Luke Ronchi (Randolph, N.J.) doubled with one out in the top of the first and Jake Cintola was hit by a pitch before Lapolla sent a Sherman offering over the left field wall to stake Suffolk to a 3-0 lead.
Lasell got a run back in the bottom of the fourth when Uberti singled as did Hurty and when Kevin Post (Cromwell, Conn.) rapped a two-out single the Lasers had the bases loaded. Sammarco singled to drive in Uberti but a groundout ended the inning preventing Lasell from scoring anymore.
Suffolk tacked on a run in the top of the fifth inning when Jacobson was hit by a pitch before coming in to score on a Jake Cintolo single. The Rams added two more in the top of the sixth, one on an RBI double by Justin Knight (Hackettstown, N.J.) and another on a run-scoring single by Jacobson and Lasell was unable to rally, going down in order in their last two at-bats to fall 6-1.
Game Two – Suffolk 9 – Lasell 2
Hector Coscione (Newton, Mass.) doubled and scored a run for Lasell and Billy Uberti added a single as Lasell was limited to two hits in the loss. Ryan Bowen (Hudson, Mass.) was credited with the loss for the Lasers, allowing nine runs, only two earned, on 12 hits in six innings of work and Eric Howard (Newton, Mass.) threw a perfect inning in relief.
Frank Tierney (Hyde Park, Mass.) went six innings, allowing only one hit and two unearned runs while striking out three to earn the victory for Suffolk. Wyatt Stanley (Placentia, Calif.) allowed one hit and no runs in an inning of relief for the Rams. Rob Marks (Revere, Mass.) singled twice, driving in three runs and scoring twice for Suffolk while Jake Cintolo had a two RBI double and JC Collette singled, doubled and scored a pair. Justin Knight added a two RBI double and Mac Jacobson added a single and a pair of runs scored for the visitors.
Jacobson reached on an error to lead-off the game for Suffolk, advancing to second and third on consecutive groundouts before scoring on a wild pitch to put the Rams on top 1-0.
Lasell came right back with a lead-off walk by Dan Gagnon (Pomfret Center, Conn.) and a double by Coscione to give them runners on second and third with nobody out. Uberti reached on a one-out error that allowed Gagnon and Coscione to score giving Lasell a 2-1 lead.
A single by Devan Jones (Roslindale, Mass.) and a double by Collette put runners on second and third with nobody out in the top of the second. Jones came in to score on an RBI groundout by Marks but Bowen escaped the jam with a strikeout, leaving the score tied at 2-2.
Suffolk regained the lead in the top of the fourth with an RBI single by Marks and a two-run double by Knight to put the visitors in front 5-2. Suffolk tacked on four more runs in the top half of the sixth inning, using an RBI single by Marks, an RBI groundout by Jacobson and a two-run double by Cintolo that put the game out of reach.
Suffolk will continue their run of road games, visiting Anna Maria on Saturday April 5th before traveling to Albertus Magnus for a GNAC doubleheader on Sunday April 6th. Lasell is slated to host Norwich on Saturday April 5th beginning at 3:00 p.m. before heading to Johnson and Wales on Sunday April 6th.