Box Score

HOBOKEN, N.J. (April 14, 2013) – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team used a four-run second inning and a five-run fifth to post a 10-1 victory over Baruch College on Sunday afternoon at Dobbelaar Field. With the win, Stevens is now back over .500 at 15-14 and pounded out 15 hits on the day.

Junior Dan Allen (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) started his 3-for-4 day with a solo homerun in the bottom of the first to give the Ducks an early 1-0 lead with two outs. Allen also drove in four runs, scored once and stole a base in the ballgame.

Stevens built onto its lead in the following inning with four runs in the second on five hits. Sophomore Ryan Mannello (Staten Island, N.Y.) led off with a single to begin his perfect 3-for-3 afternoon at the dish. Fellow sophomore Brian Hennelly (Holbrook, N.Y.) followed with a double to the left-center field gap to bring home Mannello for the first run of the frame. After a single from senior Tyler Courter (Glenwood, N.J.), sophomore Gregg Nickels (Simpsonville, S.C.) laid down a sacrifice bunt to move the runners up to second and third base. Stevens loaded the bases after a hit by pitch to freshman John Sideris (Whitestone, N.Y.) for classmate Jayson Yano (Foothill Ranch, Calif.). Yano drove in Hennelly with a single and then two more runs came home on a sacrifice fly from freshman Nicholas Sieber (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and a base hit from Allen to cap off the inning.

Courter, Hennelly, Nickles and Yano all picked up two hits in the contest. Courter and Hennelly also scored twice, as did Mannello and Sideris. Yano and Sieber both finished with two RBI.

Baruch struggled against starting sophomore Peirce Marston (Silver Spring, Md.) all game and plated its lone run of the contest in the third on three consecutive hits. Marston earned the victory in six innings pitched an scattered eight hits with no walks and seven strike outs.

In the five-run fifth, the Ducks benefitted from a dropped fly ball that eventually led to all five runs in the frame. Singles from Mannello and Hennelly put two runners on with one out. Courter stepped to the plate and lifted a fly ball to right field which was dropped to prolong the inning after a strike out by Nickels. From there, Stevens put the next four runners on base by way of a hit by pitch, a walk, single and double from Allen that brought the final two runs in.

Junior Mark Poinsett (Ocean Gate, N.J.) pitched two solid innings in relief with one punch out and two hits allowed. The ninth inning was divided between freshmen Easton Obojkovits (Holmes, N.Y.) and Bridger Cohen (Chester, N.J.) and senior Craig Leopold (Edison, N.J.).

Stevens plays next on April 17 at Vassar College for a 4 p.m. start in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.