Brooklyn, NY (Apr. 18, 2016) – The Purchase College baseball team wrapped up a series of weekend games, dropping two Skyline Conference games to Maritime College on Saturday before splitting a league doubleheader with St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) on Sunday.  The Panthers are now 11-18 overall and 6-5 in Skyline play.

VS. MARITIME
Maritime (19-9, 8-2 SKY) swept Purchase, 6-3 and 12-4, in the Skyline doubleheader Saturday afternoon on Reinhart Baseball Field. With the victory, the Privateers set the modern-day program record for team wins in a season with 19, breaking the record of 17 wins set back during the 2012 season.

Senior outfielder Paul Woodburn led the offense going 5-for-8 on the day with three doubles, one home run and five RBIs.

Sophomore Tyler Stuart started the second game on the mound, throwing five innings and only allowed three runs on three hits to go with six strikeouts for his fourth win of the season.

In game one, freshman A.J. Ammirati stranded Purchase base runners in each of the first five innings of the game. In the top of the 1st inning, Ammirati allowed two hits and a hit-by-pitch but was able to get a hitter to fly out for the third out. Ammirati only allowed one run in his 5 1/3 innings of work.

Woodburn got the scoring started with a solo home run down the rightfield line to give the Privateers a 1-0 lead after two innings. Just two innings later, Woodburn drove home another run with an RBI double to left centerfield.

Purchase battled back by scoring a run in the sixth inning on a wild pitch. Freshman Alex Poliwoda relieved Ammirati in the top of the sixth inning, entering with bases loaded and one out. Poliwoda struck out the next two batters to end the inning and strand runners on second and third base.

Purchase's Brenden LaPorte (SR/Farmington, CT) batted in two runs for the visitors with a single to left field in the eighth inning to tie the game at three, but Maritime answered back in the bottom half of the inning with four runs on four hits.  Sophomore Chris Deddo hit a sacrifice fly to right field to give Maritime a 4-3 lead.  The big blow of the inning came from Woodburn as he roped a bases-loaded single to right field for his third and fourth RBI of the game. Maritime finished the inning with a 6-3 advantage.

Poliwoda pitched the final 3 2/3 innings to secure the victory for his fourth win of the season.

In game 2, eight different Privateers tallied a RBI in the team's 12-4 win. Maritime pushed across the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the second inning on a wild pitch and an RBI groundout from freshman Jimmy Guerriero.

Purchase plated three runs in the top of the third frame on a two-run triple from Teofilo Ramirez (JR/Queens, NY) and a sacrifice fly by Nick Kulbaba (SR/Suffern, NY).

The Privateers exploded for seven runs in the bottom of the inning to take a 10-3 lead over the Panthers.
 
In the bottom of the fourth, freshman Anthony Vieto added his second home run of the season, a two-run shot, to increase the Maritime lead to nine. Purchase added their final run of the game in the top of the seventh inning.

Sophomore Anthony D'Ancona pitched the final two innings to finish out the doubleheader.

VS. ST. JOE'S
Senior Brian Luebcke dazzled in a four-hit game one shutout, fanning seven for a 9-0 St. Joe's victory.  The Bears (14-15, 5-5 SKY) fell behind early in game two, however, and mounted a last inning rally that fell short with a game-ending play at the plate that prevented the tying run and secured the split for Purchase, 6-5.

The Bears pushed across two in the first for an early lead. Thomas Pallatto capped the three-hit rally with a run scoring single.

As starter Brian Luebcke held the visitors off the scoreboard, the game remained 2-0 until the fifth when he helped his own cause with an RBI single scoring Connor Pasetti who led off the inning with a single.

The Bears tacked on three more in the sixth on run scoring singles off the bats of Michael Camerada and Pasetti, as both finished 2-for-4 in the opener.
With the Bears scoring in the final four innings to give Luebcke a healthy cushion, Luebcke completed just the second nine-inning shutout in Bears history, facing two batters over the minimum, striking out seven, walking none in the four-hitter.

In game two, Purchase opened up the scoring with one run in the second inning and exploded for five in the third to claim an early 6-0 advantage and knock Bears starter Mitch Brigando off the hill. Patrick Rucci (JR/Cortlandt Manor, NY) and Taylor Ringold (JR/South Setauket, NY) plated two apiece during the span.

Ramirez started on the mound for Purchase and held the Bears to just one hit over the first four innings. The Bears finally broke through in the bottom of the fifth after Adam Schwartz reached on a fielder's choice and Anthony Camerada laced a double to left to make it 6-1 spoil the shutout.

Still trailing 6-1 and three outs from defeat, St. Joseph's mounted a furious rally in the bottom of the seventh. Thomas Pallatto led off the inning with a single and Adam Schwartz's double put men on second and third, setting up Anthony Camerada's bases clearing double that forced out Ramirez, with the tying run on deck, down 6-3 and no out.

Michael Camerada greeted Purchase reliever Joseph Stewart (FR/Garnervile, NY) with a single and a one-out walk loaded them up for a Luebcke sacrifice fly that cut the deficit to 6-4, but brought two outs. John Condon's punched a single opposite field to load them up again and Nicholas LoPrinzi's hit a single to right easily scoring one, but Francis Rapp was nailed in a close at the plate as he raced home from second representing the tying run and Purchase escaped with a split.

The Panthers are back in action on Tuesday with a non-conference road game against Manhattanville College starting at 4 p.m.