Purchase, N.Y. – Purchase baseball capped the 2021 with a pair of victories over Yeshiva University on Senior Day. The Panthers took game one, which was a Skyline Conference game, 15-4, and followed with a non-league 6-1 win in game two.
Sunday's sweep pushed the PC win streak to five games. The Panthers finish the season with a 13-15 overall record and 7-11 in Skyline play.
Prior to game one, the Panthers honored seniors
Cody Hennequin (Milford, CT),
Josh Ferro (Queens, NY),
Ryan Kozersky (Mount Kisco, NY),
Brendan Rose (Brooklyn, NY),
Tighe Jorgensen (Fairfield, CT),
Michael Laskowski (Floral Park, NY),
Matthew Nilsen (Bellmore, NY),
Matthew Mulligan (Yaphank, NY) and
Dylan Flynn (Smithtown, NY).
Click the photo above to watch the ceremony.
Game One: Purchase 15, Yeshiva 4
The Panthers started strong in the opener, scoring two runs in the first and two more in the second for a 4-1 lead.
Myles Scarry (FR/Levittown, NY) singled and plated Flynn for the game's first run. Scarry later came around to score on a Jorgensen RBI single up the middle.
Rose followed in the second, taking ball four to get on and later scoring on what should have been a sacrifice fly by
James Shea (JR/Brooklyn, NY). The routine play for the Maccabee defense resulted in an error and brought Rose around to score. Scarry drove home Mulligan on a sacrifice fly to left field for the three-run lead.
Yeshiva fired back in the fourth, scoring three runs to tie the game at 4-4. The frame was highlighted by a 2-RBI triple by Charles Bendheim, who scored on the same play as a result of a Panther error.
The tie didn't last long, however, as Purchase drove in seven runs on three hits, two errors and a balk in the bottom half of the inning to take an 11-4 lead. Mulligan scored the game-winning run on a balk.
The Panthers added another run in the fifth and three in the sixth to secure the 15-4 victory.
Hennequin (2-4) went 5.1 innings in his final performance on the mound for Purchase. The veteran Panther finished with a notable five strikeouts, while giving up five hits and two earned runs.
Game Two: Purchase 6, Yeshiva 1
Flynn was the story for game two. The senior second baseman set a program record, becoming the first player to lead the Panthers in hits as well as stolen bases for four-consecutive seasons. He went 2-for-4 with one RBI and one stolen base in game two to finish with an impressive career total of 132 hits and 56 stolen bases over 104 games.
Starting on the mound for Purchase, Kozersky (1-2) picked up his first win of the season. The senior righthander went six innings, giving up one unearned run, while striking out three.
