Brooklyn, NY
(Apr. 9, 2018) – Purchase College baseball (14-11, 6-4 Skyline) collected 6-2 and 7-12 Skyline Conference road wins Sunday to sweep the St. Joseph's College (Brooklyn) Bears (2-21, 1-7 Skyline).
Sophomore third baseman
Patrick Wallace (Manorville, NY) paced the Panther offense on the afternoon. He went 8-for-9 (.889) with three runs and three RBI.
Game 1: Purchase 6, St. Joe's 2
Purchase broke the scoring ice off SJC starter Daniel Egan in the top of the fourth inning.
Jackson Hill (SO/Brooklyn, NY) doubled to right field to score Wallace.
In the sixth, Hill gave Purchase a 2-0 lead with a single through the right side. Teammate
Gregory Walsh (JR/Bethpage, NY) took ball four with the bases loaded to forced in the Panthers' third run and
Dylan Flynn brought the lead to 6-0 with a 2-RBI double to left field. Wallace closed out the scoring for the inning with a RBI single.
St. Joe's responded in the bottom of the ninth frame off Panther starter
Cody Hennequin (FR/Milford, NY). Michael Gonzalez doubled to right field, RBI, and later came around to score on a Kevin Reyes single to right field.
Hennequin (2-0) picked up his second win of the season for Purchase. He fanned four batters over 8.2 innings of action on the mound.
Game 2: Purchase 7, St. Joe's 2
Both teams got on the board in the first inning of game two. In the top of the frame, Wallace doubled to left field to score
Matthew Mulligan (FR/Bellport, NY) and
Brian Cunningham (JR/Westbury, NY), and later came around to score on a
Matthew Villalobos (JR/Brooklyn, NY) RBI double to left center field.
SJC answered back with two runs in the bottom half of the inning.
Leading 3-2, the Panthers tacked on another four runs over three innings. In the second, a Flynn sacrifice fly out to left field pushed
Nick Tuozzola (JR/Milford, NY) across, and in the fourth Flynn and Walsh both batted in a run. Cunningham batted in an insurance run in the sixth to secure the 7-2 Purchase victory.
Cunningham (5-0) earned the win for PC. He pitched a complete game, allowing just two runs (1 ER) and striking out four over seven innings.