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Box Score 2 UNIONDALE, N.Y. (Mar. 5, 2016) - Mitchel Field played host to two incredible pitching performances as the Molloy College baseball team entertained its home fans for the first time in the 2016 calendar season on Saturday (Mar. 5) versus a previously unbeaten Merrimack College club. In game one, junior right-hander
Ronald Bauer (Hicksville, N.Y.) dazzled his way to a complete-game one-hit shutout as the Lions won a 4-0 decision. Game two was dominated by red-shirt junior southpaw
Bobby Kelly (Mineola, N.Y.) who threw six shutout innings to lift Molloy to a 2-0 victory. The Lions are now 6-3 on the season while Merrimack falls to 5-2 in the 2016 campaign. The teams will play the third game of the series on Sunday (Mar. 6) at Mitchel Field at 12 p.m.
In the first game, Molloy got on the board first as junior outfielder
Anthony Alberghina (Staten Island, N.Y.) doubled home
Deilyn Guzman (East Hampton, N.Y.) in the bottom of the first inning. Guzman had reached on an infield hit to lead off the frame. Alberghina would be instrumental in the offense in the third inning, as he was brought home on an RBI single by
Kevin Podell (Wantagh, N.Y.) to give the Lions an insurance run. Molloy's offense concluded its output in the sixth as senior
Nicholas Gonchar (Staten Island, N.Y.) and junior
Anthony Galanoudis (Farmingdale, N.Y.) had back-to-back base knocks to drive in the third and fourth runs in the contest. Meanwhile, Bauer was masterful as his pitch count soared well above 100 through his nine innings of work. The one blemish to Bauer's outing was a ninth-inning infield single by junior outfielder Tyler Lyne (Agawam, Mass.), who beat out a throw from deep short to reach base. Otherwise, Bauer traveled through a workmanlike performance, striking out six Warrior batters to pick up the win.
Game two featured a pitchers' duel between Kelly and Zach Schindler (Halifax, Mass.) for the first few innings until Molloy scratched across a run in the bottom of the third inning when
Angelo Navetta (Staten Island, N.Y.) poked a ball through the right side of the infield to bring Alberghina home with the game's first run. The Lions got their insurance run in the next frame as sophomore
Christian Todd (Staten Island, N.Y.) lifted a sacrifice fly to right field that scored
Brian Murphy (Elmont, N.Y.) from third base. Kelly pitched six innings of three-hit ball with four strikeouts, while Guzman picked up the save after surrendering two hits in the seventh inning. Kelly improves to 3-0 on the season while Guzman recorded his second save of the spring campaign.
