Purchase is now 5-2 overall and 2-0 in the Skyline. Yeshiva, under the guidance of new head coach and Purchase alum Frankie Delgado, dropped to 0-10 and 0-5.  Delgado, a standout student-athlete and former pitcher for the Panthers, begins his first season with the Maccabees.

In game one, Purchase scored in six of its seven at-bats and finished with 14 hits.  Rookie ace Michael Piekarazyk (FR/Dudley, MA) went 3 for 4 with a double and two RBI.   Center fielder Aryn Giddens (SR/Queens, NY) was 2 for 4 with a triple and four RBI.

Designated hitter Robert Michael (FR/Lagrangeville, NY) posted a 2 for 3 performance with a triple and three RBI and co-captain Jonathan Lul (SR/Riverhead, NY) went 2 for 2  with one RBI.  

First-year pitcher Jacob Vazquez (FR/Cortlandt Manor, NY) earned his first career after pitching 5.1 innings with seven strikeouts and no walks.  He allowed only five hits and one earned run.  

Relief pitcher Andrew Fingerhut (FR/Smithtown, NY) came in for Vazquez to close out the bottom of the sixth.  He gave up three hits and two runs with one walk and two strikeouts.  

Jake Frankel was 3 for 4 with two doubles, two runs and one RBI to lead Yeshiva.  Elan Paul was 2 for 3 with a run batted in, while Jake Litwin, Joe Miller and Zachary Perl had one hit each.  

Brady Farkas started and took the loss for the Maccabees after allowing eight runs, five earned, in three and two-thirds innings.

In game two, Purchase led 10-0 after four and a half innings.  

Teofilo Ramirez (SO/Queens, NY), now 1-0, earned the win for Purchase after pitching a total of five innings, four of which were no-hitters.  He allowed one hit, one unearned run, and walked three.  

Purchase's hitting hot streak was led by Lul who went 3 for 4 with three RBI and four stolen bases.  His first at-bat was a single up the middle which brought Michael Sarni (SR/Shelton, CT) in to score the first run of the game.  Sarni was in scoring position after stealing second and third.  He totaled four stolen basis and went 2 for 2 with one RBI and double in game two.

Lul would go on to steal second and third as well.  A Piekarczyk RBI ground-out to second base would bring Lul home.  

Michael closed out the scoring with a three-run double in the seventh.  

Christian Knochen (JR/Cornwall, NY) pitched the final two innings for Purchase.  He allowed only one hit and struck-out two of the seven batters he faced.  

Yeshiva's single run was scored in the bottom of the fifth when Ephraim Botwinick scored from third base on a first-base pickoff error by Purchase.

In defeat, Maccabee Benjy Blumenthal drops to 0-2 on the season after giving up 11 hits and 10 runs (nine earned), with three walks.  

Purchase is back at it again tomorrow.  They are set to host SUNY Old Westbury in a conference doubleheader starting at noon.  The opening ceremony and first pitch will be in recognition of the new multi-purpose turf stadium and those that aided in its development.