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SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The D'Youville baseball team was in non-conference action Tuesday afternoon and dropped two games, 16-10 and 3-2 to Le Moyne. Game one featured a combined 10 home runs from both sides before the Saints were edged in a low-scoring affair in game two. After the doubleheader, the Saints move to 7-13 on the season.
Freshman Dillon Crook got the Saints off on the right foot with a three-run home run down the left-field line. Crook's home run, which drove in junior Craig Oliver and freshman Alec Boucher, was the first of his collegiate career and put D'Youville ahead, 3-0.
The Saints circled the bases twice more with back-to-back home runs in the top of the third inning to double their lead to six runs. Boucher also hit his first home run at the collegiate level, a two-run blast that drove in junior Ethan Hammond. On the next at-bat, junior John Rogowski., Jr. went deep to left field for his third home run of the season.
The Dolphins answered with three home runs of their own in the home half of the third inning to cut the Saints' lead down to two runs at 6-4. Freshman Chris Stefan hit D'Youville's fourth home run of the game in the top of the fourth to re-establish a three-run lead. Stefan became the third Saint of the day to hit his first collegiate home run.
The Dolphins knotted the game back up at seven with three runs in the bottom of the fourth before Oliver put the Saints back ahead at 8-7 on an RBI single in the top of the fifth. Le Moyne would go on to take their first lead of the game in the bottom of the fifth with four runs.
Trailing 11-8, D'Youville grabbed two runs in the sixth inning thanks to a bases-loaded walk from Hammond and a sacrifice fly from Boucher. A two-run home run followed by a three-run homer in the bottom of the sixth inning from Le Moyne put the Saints away for good in the opener.
Boucher (2-for-3, 3 RBI, HR, 2B) and Hammond (2-for-3, RBI, 2B) paced the Saints' offense in the opener.
The Dolphins grabbed the first runs of the game in the bottom of the third inning on a two-run home run.
The Saints were held scoreless in the rematch until the fourth inning when Boucher grounded out to first but drove in Hammond on the play. D'Youville tied the game back up at two apiece in the fifth when sophomore Jeremy Glinski drew a bases-loaded walk to drive in sophomore Alex Dzimian.
The Saints thought they took the lead in the top of the fifth inning when Boucher's sacrifice fly should've scored senior George Farid from third base but the umpire ruled Farid out, claiming he left early from third on his way home.
Le Moyne plated the go-ahead run in the bottom of the sixth and the Saints got the tying run to third base in the seventh and final inning but were unable to push the run across.
ON THE MOUND
Junior Kyle Blunt got his first start of the season on the mound in game two. Blunt's only blemish was the two-run homer in the third inning as he gave up two total hits and no other earned runs while striking out two. Freshman Mike Pasquarella (2.1 innings) and freshman Zach Penner (0.2 innings) each pitched in relief roles.
AT THE PLATE
The Saints were led by Glinski (1-for-2, RBI, 2B, 2 BB) and Dzimian (1-for-3, 2B) on offense in game two.
The Saints resume East Coast Conference play on Friday, April 8 when they travel downstate to take on St. Thomas Aquinas to begin a three-game weekend series.
