YAPHANK, NY – The Maritime College baseball team (20-10) concluded its non-conference slate with a 9-6 win over CCNY (5-22) at Baseball Heaven Lasorda Legacy Park on Sunday. Game two of the scheduled doubleheader was cancelled.
After CCNY jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the first, Maritime sent 10 batters to the plate in the bottom half of the inning.
Austen Bishop (Millersville, MD) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, then
Adam Mosca (Massapequa Park, NY) followed with a bases-loaded walk to tie the game.
Anthony Madigan (Greenlawn, NY) was up next, and he delivered a single that was just fair over third base, driving in two runs and giving the Privateers a 4-2 lead.
Maritime added a run in the second before increasing its cushion to 7-2 on Bishop's two-run homer to right in the fourth. It was his third home run in his last six plate appearances after a two-home run game against St. Joseph's LI on Saturday.
CCNY trimmed its deficit to 7-5 with three runs in the fifth, and the Beavers threatened again in the sixth, loading the bases with nobody out. However, after one run scored on a balk,
James Paczkowski (Oceanside, NY) stopped CCNY right there. He got two strikeouts and a groundout to end the inning, preserving the 7-6 lead.
In the bottom of the sixth, the Privateers picked up two insurance tallies on a
Ryan Rockhill (Eastchester, NY) single that knocked in
Travis Zurita (Ozone Park, NY) and
Freddy Forgione (Ronkonkoma, NY), who had both walked.
Eric Wenig (Simi Valley, CA) then worked around a one-out single in the top of the seventh to lock down his second save of the year.
With the victory, Maritime secured its fifth 20-win campaign since 2016. The only two times during that span in which the Privateers didn't win 20 games were the COVID-impacted 2020 and 2021 seasons.
Forgione reached base in each of his four plate appearances…and scored four runs. He finished 3-for-3 with a walk and a double. Rockhill was 2-for-4 with two RBIs, while Bishop went 1-for-2 with a homer, two runs scored and three RBIs. Starting pitcher
Niko Concha (Ballston Spa, NY) improved to 6-0 on the season after giving up five runs on seven hits over five innings. He struck out five and walked one.
For CCNY, Michael Chasanov went 3-for-4 with an RBI, while Eric Romero had two hits and an RBI. Jonathan Rivera also picked up a pair of hits, including a double, and scored twice. Matthew Kue (0-2) got the start for the Beavers and lasted four innings. He surrendered seven runs (six earned) on seven hits, walked four and struck out one. Jason Rodriguez recorded three strikeouts in one inning of work, and Zach Boccio retired all three batters he faced.
Game two was called after Romero, who was pitching for CCNY, was injured on a line drive back to the mound. The teams made the decision not to continue with Maritime leading 2-0 after two innings. Since the requisite four innings had not been completed, it's not an official game and considered cancelled.
On Saturday, Maritime (10-6 Skyline) visits Mount St. Mary (12-16, 7-9 Skyline) for a 12 p.m. twinbill. It will be the Privateers' final road doubleheader of the regular season.
