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Box Score 2 BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. (May 9, 2014) - On Friday afternoon, the Molloy College baseball team fell to top-seeded Dowling College in the East Coast Conference Championship Tournament in its first game, 12-3. That loss forced the Lions to play second-seeded St. Thomas Aquinas College in the deciding game to see which squad would faceoff with Dowling tomorrow in the title contest. The Spartans held the Lions to no runs in that deciding game as Molloy was eliminated from postseason play by the final score of 4-0. Molloy finished its 2014 campaign with a 20-24 overall ledger.
Game 1: Dowling 12, Molloy 3 In the first game for the Lions this afternoon, Dowling scored four times in the first and twice in the second to grab an early 6-0 lead. Molloy scored in the bottom of the second inning when junior catcher
Kyle Van Duyne (Sayville, N.Y.) blasted a two-run homer to left center. Freshman DH
Ronald Bauer (Hicksville, N.Y.) scored on the two-run shot.
The Golden Lions would add another four runs in the third and fourth frames. Molloy plated its third and final run of the contest in the bottom of the fifth when sophomore first baseman
Nicholas Gonchar (Staten Island, N.Y.) reached via an error, which allowed freshman second baseman
Brian Murphy (Elmont, N.Y.) to touch home plate. Dowling scored an additional two runs and eventually locked down the 12-3 victory.
Game 2: St. Thomas Aquinas 4, Molloy 0 In the deciding game to determine which team would play Dowling in the Championship game tomorrow, the Lions and the Spartans showed the crowd a pitchers' duel through the first six innings. In the bottom of the seventh, St. Thomas Aquinas scored all four of its runs to take the lead. STAC starting pitcher Matthew Petro stymied the Lions' bats, giving up just three hits.
This now concludes the 2014 season for Head Coach
Joe Fucarino and the Lions. Please stay tuned to MolloyLions.com and @MolloyLions for all the baseball program's offseason news and notes.
