The College of Staten Island men’s baseball squad scored a pair of powerful conference victories, coasting for a 19-4 and a 10-3 victory over CUNYAC-rival John Jay College in action earlier this afternoon at the CSI Baseball Complex. The wins upped the Dolphins overall marks to 17-6 overall and a perfect 5-0 mark in the CUNYAC, while John Jay dipped to 5-21 and 3-5, respectively.
In game one, the hits and runs came early and often for CSI as the Dolphins raced to a 13-1 advantage after just three innings. After CSI starter Pat Gale goy the Bloodhounds down in the first, CSI took the lead via a Taylor Perez wild pitch that scored Henry Roman. The Dolphins left two on base in that inning, but followed by plating a pair in the second thanks to a passed ball and an RBI-ground out by Steve Hession.
After John Jay touched Gale for a run in the top of the third, CSI erupted for 10 runs on 10 hits, aided by a pair of Bloodhound errors in their third inning turn. An RBI-double by Thomas DeWaters got the run going, while Hession followed with a two-RBI single. Devon DiCasoli and Mark Glennerster also added RBI doubles as Perez labored through the complete-game loss for John Jay.
CSI Scattered 24 hits in the opener, adding five runs in the fifth inning and another in the sixth to put the game completely out of reach. Roman posted a two-RBI double to highlight the scoring in the fifth, while a Joe Cassano single in the sixth plated Matt Oetting.
Gale earned the win, tossing six innings, allowing two runs (one earned), allowing five hits while fanning six. Perez took the loss for John Jay, giving up all 19 runs (14 earned). For CSI, Roman and DeWaters combined to go 6-for-9 with five RBI and four runs scored.
In the second game of the twinbill, John Jay put up a fight and the game was neck-and-neck for the first half of the contest.
CSI opened with a four-run eruption in the second inning to take a 4-0 lead and giving starter Paul Ciccazzo a nice cushion. Back-to-back doubles by Cory Sullivan and Sal Todaro got CSI on the board, and then with two outs, a DeWaters single and Roman double added more tallies.
John Jay would not go quietly, and put a scare into the Dolphins by posting a three-spot in the fourth inning to get to within 4-3. The Bloodhounds scattered five of their game’s nine hits in the inning including a pair of RBI-doubles by Steven Kendrick and Luis Guzman.
Now nursing a one-run lead, CSI struck again in the fourth off of John Jay’s Chris Camacho. A Glennerster double led the inning off, and after advancing a base, was scored by a Hession sac fly. Later a two-RBI double by Tom DiPietro gave CSI a 7-3 cushion. CSI added another trio of runs in the sixth to put the game out of reach. Another DiPietro double highlighted that affair as well.
Ciccazzo escaped with the win, tossing all seven innings, allowing three runs (two earned) on 9 hits, fanning three. Camacho took the loss, allowing 10 runs (seven earned), on 13 CSI hits, turning back four via the K. Roman, DiPietro, Sullivan, and Glennerster all added multi-hit games for the Dolphins.
CSI and John Jay will complete their three-game set tomorrow at American Legion Field in Brooklyn at 12 Noon for a single contest.