Box Score

Brooklyn, NY (Apr. 13, 2012) – Mercy rule, anyone?

Purchase baseball destroyed NYU-POLY, 32-10, totaling an astounding 36 hits and 32 runs in a single game Friday afternoon. The rescheduled twin bill matchup, now split into two single games, resumed Friday at Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn and the Panthers wasted little time jumping all over the host Fighting Blue Jays.

Purchase scored three in the first, five in the second, four in the third, four in the fourth, two in the fifth, five in the sixth and nine in the seventh as the game was finally called after seven full innings. NYU-POLY managed a pair of runs in the second and consecutive four-run frames in the five and the sixth, but the damage was well done by that point.  

Ace Matt Paz* (JR/Bridgeport, CT) got the win for the Panthers, going 5 1/3 innings, striking out nine.

But it was the offense that stole the show.

First baseman Phil Georges (JR/Brooklyn, NY) finished a double shy of the cycle, blasting a home run and a triple on an afternoon when he went 4 for 4 with a game-high eight RBI. He was removed late in the game as head coach Bill Guerrero emptied his bench.

Kevin McQuade (SR/Mamaroneck, NY) tallied a game-high six hits, while teammates Michael Sarni (JR/Shelton, CT), Frank Fiumara* (SR/Port Chester, NY), Jonathan Lul (SO/Riverhead, NY) and Georges each registered four hits apiece. Lul, a reserve, had a breakout game in a rare start.

The red-hot Colin Morris (JR/Bridgeport, CT) added five hits and four RBI. Sarni finished second to McQuade, netting six RBI from the leadoff spot. Every Panther recorded at least one hit in the drumming.

Purchase and NYU-POLY will complete the originally scheduled doubleheader next Friday in another single game.