Baseball Earns Berth To ECAC Metro Tournament 5/10/2010 Contact: Ben Badua
CAPE COD, Mass. (May 10, 2010) – The Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team, riding an eight-game win-streak, earned its second-consecutive berth in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Metro Tournament, after finishing the season with a 20-18 overall mark. The fourth-seeded Ducks will host fifth-seeded SUNY Old Westbury (22-21) in opening round of the single-elimination tournament. First-pitch is set for 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 12 at Dobbelaar Baseball Field in Hoboken, N.J.
The Ducks defeated the Panthers, 10-3, in a match-up earlier this season. Junior Russ Grimes went 3-for-5 with two homeruns to lead Stevens’ offensively – setting the Ducks’ single-season mark. Senior Anthony Andrews tied a single-game record with five hits and four RBI on the day, while junior catcher Denis Ackermann had a pair of hits.
Sophomore T.J. Alcorn and Mike Pagliaro combined for four hits, three runs scored, and an RBI, while senior Mark Rasulo and sophomores Corey Linden, and Sal Amato also recorded hits in the win.
Jason Kondra (East Syracuse, N.Y.), Melvin Simmons (Bronx, N.Y.), and Giovanni Jimenez (Brentwood, N.Y.) each had two hits apiece to lead Old Westbury.
Freshman Mark Poinsett moved to 4-0 on the season, going five and two thirds, surrendering just two earned runs, while Panthers’ junior starter Marvin Rosario (Lynbrook, N.Y.) fell to 6-3 on the year.
Top-seeded Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham (31-10) will host eighth-seeded Ramapo College (19-17) in Madison, N.J. in one of the day’s other quarterfinal games, while third-seeded College of Staten Island (31-10) of the City University of New York Athletic Conference plays host to Richard Stockton College (19-19) – seeded sixth.
The tournament’s final first round match up will pit second-seeded Rutgers-Newark (22-19) against seventh-seeded Rutgers-Camden (20-18).
The semifinal round is slated for Saturday, May 15. Should the Ducks advance they would face the winner of No. 1 FDU-Florham/No. 8 Ramapo, while the winner of No. 3 CSI/No. 6 Richard Stockton takes on No. 2 Rutgers- Newark/No. 7 Rutgers-Camden in the other semifinal matchup. The championship game of the 2010 ECAC Metro Tournament is scheduled for Sunday, May 16.
Last season, Stevens defeated the College of Mount St. Vincent, 4-3, in the opening round before scoring a 7-6 victory in the semifinals over Rutgers-Newark – thanks to a Grimes solo homerun in the top of the tenth. The Ducks would fall to Ramapo, 9-6, in the championship game.
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