Game One Box Score
Score by Innings       1    2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9    10               R    H    E
St. Joseph's-Bklyn    0    0    0    0    0    0    1    1    0    1                3    9    2
Maritime                       0    0    0    1    0    0    0    1    0    0                2    3    5
 
Game Two Box Score
Score by Innings       1    2    3    4    5    6    7             R    H    E
St. Joseph's-Bklyn    4    2    0    0    0    0    0             6    9    3
Maritime                       2    0    2    1    2    1    X             8    11   5
 
        THROGGS NECK, N.Y. (March 11, 2012) – The Maritime baseball team split its Sunday doubleheader against non-conference opponent St. Joseph's College of Brooklyn at Reinhart Field. The visiting Bears took game one in 10 innings by the score of 3-2, while the Privateers rebounded to win the second game, 8-6, in the regularly scheduled seven innings. Despite being 3.5 innings less than game one was, game two lasted just seven minutes shorter than game one.
 
        Maritime's record moves to 5-3 on the season, while St. Joe's record goes to 5-7.
 
        Sophomore Nicholas Sarna (Massapequa, N.Y./St. Anthony's) earned his team-leading second win of the season after pitching the complete game, allowing six runs (just two earned) on nine hits with six strikeouts.
 
        Freshman Thomas Bauer (Wantagh, N.Y./MacArthur) provided the game-tying hit for the Privateers in the bottom of the fifth of game two with an RBI single that scored classmate Patrick Kirk (Brooklyn, N.Y./St. Edmund Prep.), who was on second after a double. Later that inning, Bauer would score the go-ahead run when freshman Joseph Longo (Port Jefferson Station, N.Y./St. John Baptist) drove him in with an RBI single to center. Junior Joey Semler (Kirkland, Wash./Lake Washington) (Kirkland, Wash./Edmonds C.C.) drove in a team-high three RBIs with a two-run single in the first and a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Kirk was a perfect 3-for-3 in the second game, while Longo was 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored. Senior Matt Jernegan (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) (Whitehall, Pa./Whitehall) contributed with two RBIs and a run and also squeezed the final out of the game in his glove in left field.
 
        A key play happened in the top of the sixth inning, when, with a runner on second base, a hard hit ball that was destined for center field struck the umpire and was deemed a dead ball, which was a single for the batter, but kept the runner on second base. The play could've potentially tied the game at seven or, if the runner had stopped at third on that play, could have scored on a potential sacrifice fly by the next batter, who flew out to center. The Privateers were the fortunate party, as confusion set in between coaches and spectators around Reinhart Field, but the umpires got together and eventually made the right call.
 
        Game one was moving at a quick pace and the Privateers took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning when senior Jonathan Proscia (Franklin Square, N.Y./Holy Trinity) (Franklin Square, N.Y./Holy Trinity) scored on a bad throw from the Bears' shortstop in an attempt to throw out Semler at first for what would've been the final out. Junior Christopher Myers (Middlesex, N.J./Middlesex) (Middlesex, N.J./Middlesex) was solid on the mound, throwing seven innings and allowing just one run – the tying-run in the top of the seventh on an RBI single to right by Vinny Rossi that plated Jeff Bonowicz, who led off the inning with a double. Myers allowed seven hits and struck out four.
 
        Proscia came in to pitch the eighth inning, allowing a run that was quickly responded to by Maritime in the bottom half of the inning, when he helped his own cause with an RBI groundout to second base. The game would continue on. In the top of the 10th inning, with sophomore Sal Castagnaro (Farmingdale, N.Y./St. Anthony's) (Farmingdale, N.Y./St. Anthony's) on the mound, an error, wild pitch and double to right field gave St. Joe's the lead. Despite a double by Proscia in the bottom of the 10th, the Privateers were retired and the game ended.
 
        Freshman Rob Mongiori was the leading RBI-man on the day for the Bears with three. Sophomore Joe Mendez was 4-for-8 with a run scored. On the mound, junior Chris Vargas got the win in game one after pitching just two innings, while his classmate, Joe Chiusano was on the hook in game two, allowing two runs over just 1.2 innings to close out the game.
 
        Maritime returns to action on Wednesday night, March 14, when the Privateers welcome in Bronx-rival Lehman College. First pitch of the single, nine-inning game is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Reinhart Field.