BASEBALL SPLITS WITH CALDWELL COLLEGE
Courtesy of Matt McLagan, Caldwell College SID
Parsippany, NJ (4/10/08) The Dominican College baseball team split a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) double-header with host Caldwell College this afternoon. DC won the first game, 3-1, while the Cougars took the second game, 9-0.
Pitching dominated the first game, with the teams combining for
a total of five hits in the game off Caldwell junior Eric
Hines (Milltown, NJ) and Dominican's Tommy Mejia
(Brooklyn, NY). The Chargers struck first, taking a 2-0
lead on Tommy Maloney's (Massapequa Park, NY)
two-run double in the top of the fourth. Caldwell answered in the
bottom of the fourth, when a grounder by junior Jorge
Torres (Coral Springs, FL) scored senior Tommy
Murphy (Monroe, NY) from third to make the score 2-1. But
Dominican restored its two-run lead with an unearned run in the top
of the fifth.
Hines pitched a solid game, allowing three runs, one
earned, on three hits and one walk while striking out three in
seven innings. Mejia also went the distance,
holding the Cougars to two hits while fanning 10.
The Cougars' fortunes at the plate changed for the better in Game
2. Caldwell led off the second with a pair of singles, then a
single by Murphy brought home junior Aaron
Hoffstatter (Glasco, NY) for a 1-0 lead. Sophomore
Omar Velazquez (Astoria, NY) followed with a
three-run homer down the left field line to put Caldwell up 4-0.
Seniors Chris Chiarappa (Elmont, NY) and
Joe Hydro (Flemington, NJ) each scored unearned
runs in the third and fourth innings, respectively for a 6-0
advantage. In the bottom of the sixth, the Cougars added four more
runs on two-run hits by sophomore Andrew Robertson (Coral
Springs, FL) and freshman Edgar Santos (Woodside,
NY).
Velazquez tossed a four-hit shutout while fanning
nine and walking two for his first victory of the season.
Tom Kahl (Bay Shore, NY) (2-2) started the game
and allowed six runs on eight hits in four innings to take the
loss.
With the split Dominican improves to 14-17 overall and 6-5 in
the CACC, while Caldwell improves to 16-12 overall and 10-5 in the
CACC.