Box Score

HOBOKEN, N.J. (May 1, 2013) – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team capped off its 2013 regular season with a 2-1 win over New Jersey City University at home on Wednesday night to finish with a 23-17 overall record. Hits came at a premium in the contest, as both teams combined for five hits, and two of the three runs in the ballgame were scored without a hit recorded in each inning.

Sophomore starter Peirce Marston (Silver Spring, Md.) earned the victory in 8.1 innings pitched and struck out five batters. Marston allowed just three hits with two walks for his third win of the season and second straight 8-plus-inning outing. He allowed a run in the first inning after a leadoff walk and no hits in the frame.

NJCU's Wendell Rodriguez was equally impressive in a losing effort with seven punchouts in the complete game. Rodriguez gave up just two hits and also allowed a run in the fourth inning without the benefit of a hit by the Ducks' offense.

In the top of the ninth, NJCU started the inning with a leadoff single and a stolen base. After a groundout, Marston was lifted from the contest for junior Dan Allen (Egg Harbor Township, N.J.) who earned his sixth save this season. Allen struck out his first batter and then walked the next to set up runners on first and third with two outs. NJCU's Andrew Niech stepped to the plate and lined a shot to centerfield, but freshman Jonathan Toro (Sanford, Fla.) made a diving catch to end the game. If the diving attempt failed, the Gothic Knights would have most likely scored two runs on the play, and possibly three with an inside-the-park-homerun.

Senior Tyler Courter (Glenwood, N.J.) and freshman Jayson Yano (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) drove in both runs for Stevens in the third and fourth innings. Yano singled in the third to score Toro and Courter drove in senior Michael Donovan (Frisco, Texas) on a sacrifice fly in the fourth.

Freshman Tyler Bush (Bristol, Conn.) picked up the other hit for the Ducks with a double to lead off the eighth inning.

In all, both teams were retired in order a total of six times in the nine-inning affair.

The Ducks will wait and see if they earn a bid to the ECAC Metro Tournament at the beginning of next week for a chance to tie last season's win total of 24. The ECAC Tournament will get underway May 8.

Stevens needs just one strikeout as a pitching staff to eclipse 300 on the season. The staff currently ranks seventh in Division III in strikeouts per nine innings and would be just one of five schools to reach that total.