Baseball Drops Two To League Rival St. John Fisher

4/10/2010 12:00:00 AM

PITTSFORD, N.Y. (April 10, 2010) – Junior Denis Ackermann went 3-for-6 on the day, but the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team dropped a pair of games to St. John Fisher College at Growney Stadium in Pittsford, N.Y. The Ducks, now 11-15 on the season with a 1-5 league ledger, dropped the opener 4-1 before falling in the nightcap, 4-0. Stevens will look to bounce back on Sunday, April 11, in another Empire 8 twinbill scheduled with the Cardinals.

Sophomore second baseman Tom Phillips finished with a pair of hits, while senior Mark Rasulo – who blasted a solo homerun in game one – and sophomore T.J. Alcorn recorded Stevens' only other base-knocks on the afternoon.

Game 1: St. John Fisher 4, Stevens 1
The Cardinals got to Stevens' starter Joe Finora early, scoring a pair of runs on a two-out, two-run RBI double in the first that plated senior Kevin Wing (Webster, N.Y.) – who reached on a Ducks' error.

Finora settled down however, retiring six of the next eight Cardinal batters in a pair of scoreless innings. The Mattituck, N.Y. native then surrendered a lead-off double to sophomore Teagen Barresi (Lansing, N.Y.) in the fourth, before sitting down three-straight Fisher batters to end the Cardinal threat.

In the bottom of the fifth, Wing again reached on a Stevens' error before advancing to second on a Marc Montesano (New Hartford, N.Y.) sacrifice bunt. Junior catcher Leo Fusilli (Penfield, N.Y.) plated the Cardinals' third run on an RBI single to right.

Rasulo got one run back, leading off the sixth with a solo homerun, to put Stevens on the board, but Fisher responded with a run of its own in the bottom half of the stanza on a Barresi roundtripper to left. From there senior reliever Geoff Martone (Gilbert, Ariz.) – who entered the game with two out in the Ducks' sixth – retired Stevens in order to put the wraps on his third save of the season.

Rasulo and Alcorn each finished 1-for-3, while Ackermann notched a pair of hits. Barressi went 2-for-3 with an RBI to lead the Cardinals, while Fusilli and Montesano combined for two hits, an RBI, and a run scored.

Finora allowed just one earned run, scattering six hits, while striking out four in the loss. Fisher starter Andrew Van Slyke (Rome, N.Y.) went five and two thirds, surrendering just one run on four hits en route to his third win of the season.

Game 2: St. John Fisher 4, Stevens 0
Scoreless after two, Fisher pushed the first run across in the third on a Wing's one-out, RBI double down the right field line that scored senior Jason Nevada (Rochester, N.Y.). St. John Fisher would tack on three more runs in the sixth on a Jon Gibbs (Pittsford, N.Y.) bases-loaded two RBI single and a Sean Osterman (Pittsford, N.Y.) sacrifice bunt.

Senior Dan Jurik (Vestal, N.Y.) allowed just three hits in the complete game shutout. After surrendering a lead-off single to Phillips in the first, he retired seven of the next eight batters he faced before another Phillips base-hit in the third. The Vestal, N.Y. native would not allow a hit the rest of the way however, allowing just two baserunners, retiring 13 of his final 15.

Stevens' freshman Tyler Courter allowed three runs on eight hits in five-innings of work in the loss.

Phillips went 2-for-3 to lead the Ducks offensively, while Ackermann finished 1-for-3. Montesano was 3-for-3 with a run scored, while Gibbs finished 1-for-3 with two RBI. Nevada had a 2-for-2 day with a run scored.
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