(Game
1 box score)
(Game 2 box score)
3/31/07 -– The Long Island University baseball team
split a doubleheader at Longwood. The Blackbirds (4-12) fell 8-6
in the first game before taking the second game, 6-4. Senior Marcus
Wynn (Plainfield, N.Y.) had a big day, driving in four runs and
hitting a home run.
In the first game, Long Island jumped out to a 1-0 lead in the
first when senior Orlando Cruz (White Plains, N.Y.) doubled to
scored classmate Robbie Rowen (Rosendale, N.Y.), who had reached
on a single. Longwood struck back in the fourth inning, plating
a pair of runs on RBI singles by Frank Berry II and Scott Kimble.
A two-run home run by Wynn put the Blackbirds back on top, 3-2,
in the top of the fifth.
The Lancers answered right back in the bottom of the inning, when
Tyler Childress’ three-run double knocked Blackbirds starter
Rich Moran (Carmel, N.Y.) out of the game. Moran (0-4) lasted four-plus
innings, giving up six runs (five earned) on eight hits and three
walks. Longwood added three more runs in the inning off reliever
John Dooley (Deer Park, N.Y.) to take an 8-3 lead.
Long Island scored a pair of runs in the sixth on an RBI double
by catcher Chris Kievit (Wayne, N.J.) and a run-scoring single
by Wynn. The Blackbirds threatened in the ninth, with junior Dan
Pirillo (Marlboro, N.Y.) stroking a pinch-hit single to score pinch
runner Jimmy Lopovich (Staten Island, N.Y.), but that was all the
offense Long Island could muster.
In the second game, the Blackbirds once again took an early lead,
scoring three runs in the first inning. Cruz forced the first run
home by drawing a bases-loaded, no-out walk. Freshman James Jones
(Brooklyn, N.Y.) followed by hitting into a fielder’s choice,
allowing senior Trey Bell (Georgetown, Del.) to score. After Jones
was caught stealing for the second out, Wynn delivered again, this
time with another RBI single.
Longwood got on the board in the bottom of the third when back-to-back
doubles by Casey Havers and Jon Quigley plated a pair of runs.
Long Island added another run to increase its lead to 4-2 in the
fifth when Rowen’s sacrifice fly scored freshman Gerard Tingos
(Staten Island, N.Y.). Longwood cut the score to 4-3 in the bottom
half of the inning when Childress hit a ball back to pitcher Mike
Maynard (Staten Island, N.Y.). Maynard threw Childress out at first,
but Kimble scored on the play.
Long Island added a pair of insurance runs in the seventh, when
Rowen drove in a pair of runs with a double.
Maynard (2-1) pitched five-plus innings, allowing three runs on
eight hits and three walks, while striking out four. Rowen picked
up the save with two innings of three-hit, one-run ball.
The Blackbirds and Lancers will wrap up their four-game series
on Sunday, April 1 at noon.
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