Hoboken, N.J. – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team scored nine unanswered runs between the third and seventh innings, racing past NJCU, 11-5, on Tuesday afternoon at Dobbelaar Field.
The Ducks finished with 16 hits, tied for their second-most in a game this season, hitting .457 for the day, their highest single-game average this year.
How It Happened
Each side put two on the board in the first inning.
Chip Krese and
Quinton Sterling each singled, then stole a base, putting two in scoring position for Stevens (19-13). With two out, a wild pitch plated Krese and moved Sterling to third, then an
Ethan Simpson single plated Sterling.
NJCU put three more on the board in the third, but
Dylan Fishbough led off the third with a long home run to center and Edward "E.J." Balewitz Jr. led off the fourth with a no-doubt shot well over the right field wall, slicing the Ducks' deficit to 5-4. In the fifth, Fishbough legged out a hustle double down the left field line, stole third, then scored the tying run on a wild pitch.
The Ducks took their first lead in the sixth, putting three on the board.
Adam Kobayashi and
Aaron Wong led off with singles. With one out, both Krese and Sterling were hit by a pitch, with Kobayashi scoring the go-ahead run on Sterling's plunk. The merry go-round continued, then culminated with a Fishbough walk (scoring Wong) and
Griffin Zitko single (scoring Krese).
In the seventh, a Wong double,
Jason Wu single, Krese walk,
Robert Savely double, and Fishbough single led to three more for Stevens as they broke the game open.
After an efficient, extended relief outing from
Dawson Guerard,
Zach DeGeorge worked a scoreless ninth to close out the win.
Inside The Box Score
- Wong, who entered the day with just three hits on the year, became just the third Duck with four hits in a game this season, joining Zitko and Sterling
- Fishbough finished 3-for-4, marking a five-game stretch in which he's .474 (9-for-19) with four extra-base hits, six runs, and five RBI
- Guerard allowed just two singles in four scoreless innings of work, lowering his ERA for the season more than a full run.
- Krese ran his hitting streak to 15 games with a 1-for-3 day
Up Next
The Ducks host King's in the opener of a MAC Freedom series on Thursday night at 6:00 from Dobbelaar.
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