Baseball Celebration
Sid Rochlani
8
FDU-Florham FDU-FLOR 15-19
15
Winner Stevens STEVENS 23-13
FDU-Florham FDU-FLOR
15-19
8
Final
15
Stevens STEVENS
23-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
FDU-Florham FDU-FLOR 0 0 0 3 1 0 4 0 0 8 11 1
Stevens STEVENS 1 0 2 2 2 8 0 0 X 15 15 1

W: Sibbach, Erik (4-4) L: Dominick Galeotafiore (1-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Homer-Happy Baseball Slug Past FDU-Florham, 15-8

Hoboken, N.J. – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team crushed a season-high six home runs and put multiple runs on the board in four innings in a 15-8 win Friday night from Dobbelaar Field.

Even before the game began, Stevens (24-13, 12-7) got good news when DeSales beat Lebanon Valley, clinching a MAC Freedom Tournament berth for the Ducks.

How It Happened
Sterling started the carousel with a one-out solo shot in the first and Fishbough went deep in the third ahead of a Chip Krese triple + Sterling RBI single, putting the Ducks up 3-0.

FDU-Florham got in on the home run party in the fourth, tying the game with a three-run shot, but Adam Barrington followed a Tyler Wilke hit by pitch with another round-tripper in the bottom of the inning, putting the Ducks back on top, 5-3.

After the Devils got a run back in the top of the fifth, a Sterling single and Griffin Zitko two-run shot in the bottom of the inning, gave the Ducks another three-run cushion, 7-4, which grew substantially in the sixth.

Walks to Vinnie Stigliano and Sterling bookending a Krese single loaded the bases for Zitko who promptly unloaded them, breaking the game open with a grand slam. After Garret Wolf reached on a fielding error, Edward "E.J." Balewitz Jr. made it 13-4 with another no-doubt shot to right-center. After Barrington singled and Fishbough doubled, Stigliano singled in Fishbough and pinch-runner Ethan Simpson, capping the eight-run outburst, putting the Ducks up 15-4.

The Devils scored four times in the seventh, but drew no closer, as the Ducks improved to 16-2 against their in-state conference rival in the last 18 meetings.

Inside the Box Score
  • The six home runs matched the school record for home runs in a game, tying the mark set against Old Westbury on May 2, 2012.
  • Krese went 2-for-5 and extended his hitting streak to 20 games, the program's longest since Adam Sandt hit safely in 24 straight in 2006. The junior also ran his on-base streak to 24 games and collected his 16th multi-hit game of the season
  • Sterling, who's hit safely in his last 14 games, was a perfect 3-for-3 at the dish
  • Zitko became the fourth Duck to hit multi-home runs in a game this season, joining Fishbough, Barrington, and Krese
  • The school record holder for wins, Erik Sibbach went six innings with five strikeouts, picking up career victory No. 25
Up Next
The Ducks wrap the series with a doubleheader in Madison on Sunday, starting at 12:00 PM.

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