Box Score UNIONDALE, N.Y. (Mar. 6, 2016) - Sophomore outfielder
Christian Todd (Staten Island, N.Y.) drove in four runs---including three on a bases-clearing double in the bottom of the first inning---as the Molloy College baseball team completed an emphatic three-game sweep of Merrimack College with a 10-2 win over the Warriors on Sunday (Mar. 6) at Mitchel Field.
Starting pitcher
Anthony Catinella (Middle Village, N.Y.) worked out of a jam for Molloy (7-3) in the top half of the opening inning before the Lions went to work against Merrimack (5-3). Starter P.J. Browne (Rutland, Mass.) surrendered a single and two walks but struck out two in the bottom half of the frame until Todd cleared the bases to stake the maroon and white out to the early edge. The Lions led 5-0 after red-shirt junior
Michael Rahn (Sayville, N.Y.) knocked in two runs in the third inning to help chase Browne from the game, but Molloy's offense was just getting started. A five-run fourth inning helped to put the game away decisively as junior
Kevin Podell (Wantagh, N.Y.) had an RBI double to start the scoring in the frame. After two more runs scored on account of errors, sophomore catcher
Jack McCarty (Huntington, N.Y.) drove in two with a two-base hit to end the Lions' scoring for the day at 10 runs, the second-most for the maroon and white this season behind a 13-run outburst versus Nyack last weekend.
The ten runs were plenty for Catinella to work with, as the sophomore tossed five innings of four-hit baseball with six strikeouts. Merrimack scored a run in both the sixth and seventh innings off of relievers, but the Molloy bullpen worked comfortably through the rest of the contest to limit the Warriors to just the two runs. Four players---Todd, Rahn, Podell and
Brian Murphy (Elmont, N.Y.)---each had two hits for the Lions, who also drew seven walks at the dish in a great show of plate discipline.
The Molloy College baseball team will next head down to Lynn University in Boca Raton, Fla. to play five games in five days, beginning with a Friday (Mar. 11) tilt against Bloomfield College at 2 p.m.
