Rockville Centre, NY- The Molloy baseball team split a doubleheader with the St. Thomas Aquinas Spartans Saturday afternoon at Mitchel Field. STAC won the first game, 6-2, and Molloy won the second game, 13-12. The Lions moved to 13-7 overall and 9-2 in ECC, while the Spartans moved to 16-2 overall and 10-2 in league play.
 
Game One: STAC 6, Molloy 2

• STAC plated two runs in the top of the first to take a 2-0 advantage.
• Sophomore David Franchi hit an RBI single to left to make it 2-1 in the second.
• The Spartans scored one run in the fifth, and three in the seventh to increase their lead to 6-1.
• Franchi added an RBI single in the ninth to cut the away team's lead to 6-2.

Game Two: Molloy 13, STAC 12

• STAC tallied one run in the first and six in the second to go ahead 7-0.
• After the Spartans took an 8-0 advantage in the top of the third, seniors James Messina and Peter Theodorellis hit RBI singles to make it 8-2.
• The away team added two runs in the fourth to increase its advantage to 10-2.
• The maroon and white used an eight-run fifth to even the score at 10. Senior Jake McCarthy and junior Robert Iadanza hit two-RBI doubles to cut the lead to 10-6. Iadanza and junior Vincent Pecora scored on wild pitches, and senior Sean Hogan hit a two-RBI single to knot the score.
• In the sixth, redshirt junior Thomas Brady hit an RBI single through the left side to put Molloy up 11-10.
• STAC scored two runs in the top of the seventh to retake the lead, 12-11.
• Hogan hit an RBI triple to tie the score, and senior Matt Overton won the game with an RBI single to right field.
• Sophomore AJ Verga struck out three batters in three innings pitched to improve to 1-0 on the season.

Up Next
The Lions host D'Youville tomorrow, April 25. The game with the Saints in scheduled for 11:00 a.m. at Mitchel Field.