Score Game 1: Bryant 10, UAlbany 1
 
Score Game 2: Bryant 7, UAlbany 5
 
Location: Conaty Park in Smithfield, Rhode Island
 
Records: UAlbany (4-26-1, 1-14 America East) | Bryant (19-16, 9-6 America East)
 
Short Story: The University at Albany baseball team dropped both games of Saturday's doubleheader against Bryant.  
 
Head Coach Jon Mueller: "Tough day overall. Some positives on the mound in game two to build off of."
 
Key Stats Game 1:

• UAlbany Pitchers:
  • Dylan Banner – 3.1 IP | 7 ER | 8 H | 3 BB | 4 K
  • Nicholas Jessen – 2.2 IP | 3 ER | 5 H | 2 BB | 2 K
• Chris Fisher led the offense with two hits and an RBI.
• Danny Alvarez (1-4), Josh Salandy (1-2), Ryan Ferremi (1-3), and Justin Hurd (1-3) all finished with one hit.
• UAlbany finished with six hits, three walks, and seven strikeouts.

 
Key Stats Game 2:

• UAlbany Pitchers:
  • Owen Birkman – 4.0 IP | 2 ER | 3 H | 0 BB | 4 K
  • Connor Eisenmann – 2.0 IP | 1 ER | 2 H | 0 BB | 2 K
  • Thomas Quinn – 1.0 IP | 1 ER | 3 H | 1 BB
  • Michael DiMartino – 0.2 IP | 1 ER | 1 H | 2 BB
  • Ryan Pittz – 0.1 IP | 0 ER | 0 H
• Jason Bottari led the offense, going 3-4 with an RBI and a walk.
• Chris Fisher went 2-2 with a walk and two runs scored.
• Will Binder (1-4), Justin Hurd (1-4), and Luke Fillipi (1-4) all finished with one hit each. Hurd hit a home run to left in the seventh inning.
• UAlbany finished with eight hits, five walks, and 10 strikeouts.

 
How it Happened Game 1:

• Dylan Banner started on the mound for the Great Danes, Brett Wichrowski started for the Bulldogs.
• Bryant made it a 1-0 game in the third inning on an RBI single from Carmine Petosa.
• The Bulldogs added six runs, making it 7-0, in the fourth inning. Zions had a two-RBI single, Smith had an RBI walk, Barnum hit a sac fly, Petosa had an RBI single, and Myler laid down a successful sac bunt.
• Nicholas Jessen replaced Banner with one out in the fourth.
• Liam LeVangie took the mound for Bryant with one out in the sixth.
• Chris Fisher made it 7-1 in the sixth with an RBI single to bring home Carson Dunkel.
• Bryant added three runs in the sixth to push the lead to 10-1.

 
How it Happened Game 2:

• Owen Birkman started on the mound for the Great Danes, Ken Turner started for the Bulldogs.
• Bryant made it 2-0 in the third inning. Gustin hit a groundout to first to bring in a run, Smith homered to left to make it 2-0.
• Connor Eisenman came in to start the fifth for UAlbany.
• Chase Jeter replaced Turner on the mound for Bryant with two outs in the sixth.
• UAlbany got its first run of the game in the sixth when Chris Fisher crossed home from third base after a wild pitch.
• Bryant's Petosa pushed the lead back to two runs thanks to an RBI double in the sixth.
• Justin Hurd hit a home run to left in the seventh to cut the lead to just one run again, 3-2.
• Matthew Stansky took the mound for Bryant with one out in the seventh.
• Will Feil and Danny Alvarez each put the ball in play in the seventh with runners on. Thanks to two Bryant errors, two runs crossed the plate. The final run of the inning, putting UAlbany up 5-3, came on a Jason Bottari RBI single.
• Bryant tied it in the seventh on a Smith two-RBI double.
• The Bulldogs took the lead for good the following inning. Smith hit an RBI infield single to short and Zyons hit a sac fly to right to make it 7-5.

 
Next: The Great Danes host Wagner this weekend for a three-game series. Keep up with all of the latest news, highlights, and insights on UAlbany baseball by following the team on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram and by using the hashtag #UAUKNOW.