May 24, 2003
Box Score
Fishkill, NY--The Marist College baseball team had its 2003 season ended on Saturday afternoon, falling 8-4 to LeMoyne in the Championship Round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) baseball tournament, at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, NY. The loss ends the Red Foxes streak of three straight MAAC Tournament titles, and ends the season at 33-20-1.
After exchanging runs in the first inning, LeMoyne took a 2-1 lead in the top of the second inning. Marist would take its lone lead of the game in the bottom half of the inning, scoring twice and loading the bases with one out. Tim Allen would hit a ground ball back to the pitcher, for a double play, ending the threat. LeMoyne tallied twice in the top of the third-inning, taking a 4-3 lead, which it would not relinquish.
The teams traded scoreless frames until the top of the seventh, when Ryan Kondratowicz allowed two runs. Chris Homer gave up two unearned runs in the eighth-inning, before getting out of a ninth-inning bases loaded jam, and the Red Foxes entered their last at-bat trailing 8-3.
Tim Allen followed with a single, which loaded the bases and brought up the game tying run. Mike Sidoti hit a groundball, which forced Allen at second, and then was called out on a runners interference, ending the game and the Red Foxes season.
Griffiths headlined five Red Foxes on the MAAC All-Tournament Team, joined by Allen, John McGorty, Jimmy Board and Chris Tracz.
The 33 wins is the second-highest single season win total in program history, a mark that the Red Foxes have reached in each of the last four seasons.
