Score: UMBC 13, UAlbany 9
Location: Varsity Field in Albany, N.Y.
Records: UAlbany (3-12-1, 0-3 America East) | UMBC (10-9, 3-3 America East)
Short Story: The University at Albany baseball team fell, 13-9, in the final game of the weekend series against America East foe UMBC.
Head Coach Jon Mueller: "We really struggled on the mound today and unfortunately our defense escaped us, we've been pretty good in that category. We're going to have to move on and learn from this. We told the guys, we don't talk about losing, we talk about learning, and this was a good learning experience for them. Unfortunately, we weren't able to come out with a victory this weekend, but we'll look forward to next weekend with NJIT."
Key Stats Game 1:
- UAlbany Pitchers:
- Will Binder and Owen Silliman led the offense with two RBIs each. Binder went 2-4 with a home run a walk, and two runs scored. Silliman went 2-5 with one run scored.
- Victor Mazzara and Devan Kruzinski also finished with two hits each. Each of them recorded a double, with Mazzara scoring twice and Kruzinski scoring once.
- Will Feil (1-5), Jason Bottari (1-5), and Chris Fisher (0-4) all registered an RBI.
- Dan Tauken (1-4) and Carson Dunkel (1-1) each hit a double.
- Danny Alvarez recorded a hit in one at-bat.
- The Great Danes finished with 13 hits, three walks, six strikeouts, and left eight men on base.
How it Happened:
- Thomas Quinn started on the mound for UAlbany, Jayden Shertel started for UMBC.
- UMBC struck first in the second inning. Justin Taylor singled up the middle to score Dawson Baracani and Tony Krueger. Then, Leewood Molessa singled up the middle to score Ian Diaz and Taylor later scored on a passed ball, making it 4-0.
- Matthew Mariano started at mount for UAlbany in the third inning.
- In the third inning, UMBC made it 5-0 on a sac fly to right field from Justin Taylor.
- UAlbany got on the board in the bottom of the third. Owen Silliman singled to center field to score Will Binder and Victor Mazzara. Later, Jason Bottari singled to center field to score Will Feil to make the score 5-3.
- In the bottom of the fourth, Devan Kruzinski singled a bunt to score Tyler Pugliese. Later, Feil grounded out to score Mazzara to make the score 5-5.
- To start the fifth inning, UMBC's Taylor singled to left field to score Diaz, giving the retrievers a 6-5 lead.
- UMBC's Matt Ryan singled up the middle early in the top of the fifth to score Taylor.
- Michael DiMartino rotated in to take the mound midway through the fifth inning.
- In the top of the sixth, Christian Easley singled to shortstop to score Anthony Swenda. The Retrievers then pushed the lead to 11-5 on a three-RBI double from Molessa.
- Matt Clarke came in to pitch in the bottom of the sixth for UMBC. After recording one out, he was replaced by Ben Craig with runners on first and third.
- In the bottom of the sixth, Kruzinski scored on a wild pitch, to make it 11-6. He originally reached base on a double.
- Kyle McCaffrey took the mound for UAlbany in the top of the seventh.
- In the top of the seventh, UMBC's Trythall scored on an error after a pickoff attempt to first base. Later, Krueger singled down the line to score Swenda, making it 13-6.
- Cam Fuer took the mound for UAlbany to start the eighth.
- Sam Daniels took the mount for UMBC in the bottom of the eighth.
- To close out the eighth, Will Binder hit a home run to left field to score Carson Dunkel.
- Ryan Pittz took the mound for UAlbany in the top of the ninth.
- Rob Dorn took the mound at the bottom of the ninth for UMBC.
- The Great Danes added a run in the bottom of the ninth thanks to a sac fly from Chris Fisher.
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