Score Game 1: UAlbany 4, Longwood 15
Score Game 2: UAlbany 10, Longwood 7
Location: Buddy Bolding Stadium Farmville, Va
Records: UAlbany (2-4, 0-0 America East) | Longwood (2-8, 0-0 SLC)
Short Story: The University at Albany's baseball team overcame a four-run deficit to split the day's doubleheader.
Head Coach Jon Mueller: "We got off to a poor start in the first game. There were too many free passes, and we put ourselves in a huge hole. Game two we really dug in late and put together two big innings to even the day. A lot of credit to
Mark Gajowski for his outing. Just tremendous for a freshman in a big leverage spot late."
Key Stats Game 1
How it Happened Game 1
- Matthew Mariano started the game for the Great Danes and Guillermo Garcia started on the mound for Longwood.
- Longwood opened the scoring in the first on RBI singles by James Nelson and Mikey Urbaniak.
- The Great Danes answered back in the top of the second with a solo shot by Levi McAllister.
- The Lancers then scored two more in the bottom of the second on a ground out to third base, and a single by Myles Webb, making the score one to four.
- Justin Hurd brought the Danes to within two in the fourth inning with a solo shot.
- James Nelson responded for Longwood with a two-run homerun to make the score two to six in the fourth.
- Caleb Grizzard came in to pitch for Longwood with one out in the fifth inning.
- Kyle McCaffrey came out of the bullpen for the Danes in the fifth inning.
- Longwood scored four in the fifth, three of them on a homerun by Tre Keels.
- Braydon Gray came in to pitch in the sixth for Longwood.
- Ryan Ferremi drove home Cooper Loyal and Victor Mazzara on a single to right field in the sixth, making the score four to ten.
- Longwood added another run in the bottom of the sixth and three more in the eighth to go up four to fifteen.
Key Stats Game 2
- UAlbany pitchers:
- Ryan Ferremi went two for five, highlighted by a solo homerun
- Anthony Scarabino went two for four with two RBI's, highlighted by his first career homerun
- Thomas McElwee went two for four with four RBI's, highlighted by a double that drove in two
How it Happened Game 2
- Ryan Pittz started the game for the Great Danes and Alex Strickland started on the mound for Longwood.
- Longwood opened the scoring in the first on a single by Jayson Nash that brought in two runs.
- Thomas McElwee answered back for the Danes in the top of the second, driving home two runs with a single.
- A triple by Tre Keels, and a groundout to the shortstop by Carter Newman helped the Lancers take a two to four lead in the second.
- Ryan Ferremi launched a solo shot to right field, bringing the Danes within one in the third.
- In the top of the fifth Wyatt Bunch came in to pitch for Longwood.
- In the bottom half of the inning Myles Webb hit an RBI double to give the Lancers a three to five lead.
- Mark Gajowski came out of the bullpen for UAlbany with two outs in the fifth.
- Longwood added another run with two outs in the fifth, bringing their lead to three.
- Tre Keels hit a sac fly to center, scoring Bentley Yeatts and giving the Lancers a three to seven lead.
- Justin Gunter came into pitch in the eighth for Longwood.
- UAlbany tied the game in the eighth inning, highlighted by doubles from Logan Morris and Thomas McElwee.
- Anthony Scarabino hit his first career homerun to break the tie, giving the Danes a nine to seven lead in the top of the ninth.
- Ried Dittner came in to finish the ninth for Longwood with one out.
- John Vitucci then reached on a fielder's choice, scoring Ryan Ferremi and putting the Danes up three going into the bottom of the ninth.
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