Box Score UNIONDALE, N.Y. (Apr. 2, 2015) - On Thursday, the Molloy College baseball team defeated Dominican College, 8-2 at Mitchel Field in Uniondale, N.Y. With the win, the Lions improved to 11-12 overall, while the Chargers fell to 4-10.
Molloy plated its first run of the game in the third inning when sophomore
Anthony Alberghina (Staten Island, N.Y.) doubled to left center, driving home junior
Deilyn Guzman (East Hampton, N.Y.). In the fifth, the Lions scored three runs to take a 4-0 lead. Guzman singled in senior
Kyle Van Duyne (Sayville, N.Y.), followed by freshman
Angelo Navetta (Staten Island, N.Y.) singling in Alberghina and Guzman.
Dominican scored two runs in the seventh and eighth innings to cut its deficit to 4-2. Molloy then scored four insurance runs in the bottom of the eighth to take an 8-2 advantage. Van Duyne recorded a two-run single to bring home freshman
Jack McCarty (Huntington, N.Y.) and junior
Michael Rahn (Sayville, N.Y.). That base hit was followed by a two-run single off Alberghina's bat. He plated Van Duyne and sophomore
Brian Murphy (Elmont, N.Y.).
On the mound, junior
Shea Spitzbarth (Staten Island, N.Y.) went all nine innings for the complete game, giving up two runs (one earned) on four hits. He notched 10 strikeouts. Spitzbarth is now 2-1 with a 2.40 earned run average. He now has 42 strikeouts in 30 innings.
Head Coach
Joe Fucarino and the Lions return to the diamond on Saturday to host Nyack College in a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.
