PURCHASE, N.Y. - The Purchase College baseball team cruised to a pair of wins Saturday afternoon, besting Mount Saint Mary College by the scores of 19-7 and 7-4.
Game One: Purchase 19, MSMC 7 (7 inn)
The Panthers got off to a quick start in game one and never looked back in the contest.
In the first inning, the hosts totaled two runs, before each side crossed the plate in the third to make it 3-1.
The Knights then cut it to a one-run game in the top of the fourth, until the Blue and Orange exploded to the tune of eight runs in the bottom of the frame to all but seal the game early.
Now leading by the score of 11-2, the hosts proceeded to score five more in the fifth inning and three more in the sixth to push their tally to 19 in the win.
Overall, the Panthers finished with 16 hits as
Brandon Gonzalez (FY/Flushing, NY) totaled a quarter of them, going 4-for-4 with a triple, a double, three RBIs and three runs.
Joe Salerno (JR/White Plains, NY) also exploded at the plate, finishing with a game-high five RBIs and three runs on three hits, including a home run.
Trevor Zanderzuk (SR/Manorville, NY) and
Liam Daly (SO/Babylon, NY) each finished with a multi-hit game in the win.
On the mound,
Alex Doskoez (5th/Eastsport, NY) collected the victory after he went five innings. During the action, he struckout five and allowed just four runs on eight hits.
Game Two: Purchase 7, MSMC 4
Following the opening blowout, things played out much closer in the second contest of the day.
The Panthers initially struck first when Daly crossed home plate on a wild pitch in the first inning.
But the lead was short lived, as the guests hit solo homers in the second and fourth to take a 2-1 lead.
From there, the Blue and Orange righted the ship, as they answered with five runs in the fifth inning to take a commanding lead.
Tristen Abreu (SO/Mineola, NY) initially tied the contest with an RBI-single, before a three-run homer from Daly put Purchase ahead for good.Â
Later in the inning,
Patrick Reyes (SO/Plainedge, NY) crossed home plate on a double steal to push the lead to 6-2.Â
The guests momentarily made it a contest in the sixth with a two-run homer, before
Myles Scarry (SR/Levittown, NY) padded the advantage with an RBI-single in the seventh to make it 7-4.
On the mound, the trio of
Christian Miesegaes (FY/Staten Island, NY),
John Peteani (JR/Yonkers, NY) and
Jemal Betances (6th/Bronx, NY) tossed a gem.
Starter Miesegaes earned the win after he went 5.2 innings, allowing just four runs on six hits with three K's.
Peteani and Betances then combined to throw 3.1 innings of scoreless relief, allowing just one hit along the way, as the latter earned the save.Â
At the plate, Abreu, Daly, Gonzalez and Scarry each recorded multi-hit efforts.
With the results, Purchase is 12-9 overall and 4-0 in Skyline Conference games. For they Knights, they dropped to 5-13 and 2-4, respectively.Â
Up next for the Panthers is more Skyline action as the team travels to face St. Joseph's University-Long Island for a doubleheader tomorrow (4/7). First pitch is scheduled for 11 a.m.
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