March 23, 2004
Box Score
Stony Brook, NY -- The Marist College baseball team earned a 5-2 win over host Stony Brook this afternoon in 10 innings. The Red Foxes improve to 4-13, while Stony Brook falls to 7-7.
Keith Brachold broke the tie with a lead-off solo homerun to start off the 10th and give the Red Foxes a 3-2 lead. They would add two insurance runs, as the next three batters all reached base. Justin Lepore walked and advanced to third when Jimmy Board singled to right field. Bryan Towler hit a ball into centerfield, which was muffed, to score LePore, but was thrown out at second, with Board reaching third safely. Board would score when the next batter Kevin Buck hit a sacrifice fly to centerfield.
Rob Ryan earned his second save of the season, allowing one-hit in the 10th. Eric Supplee (1-0) picked up his first collegiate win in relief of Kevin Shurtleff. Shurtleff struck out five in his 6.0 innings, along two runs on five hits and walking one. Supplee tossed three-innings, allowing two hits, striking out one and walking none.
The Red Foxes knocked out 11 base hits on the day, led by the 3-5 effort of Towler. Brachold finished the game 1-5 with two RBI, while Board and Eric Johnson each had multi-hit days for Marist.
Stony Brook scored first, on a lead-off double, followed by a sacrifice bunt and a sacrifice fly, to take a 1-0 lead. The Seawolves tallied another run in the fourth-inning on a solo homerun. The Red Foxes would tie the score in the eighth inning, as Travis Musolf and Johnson scored on a groundout by Brachold and a sacrifice fly from LePore. Stony Brook threatened in both the eighth and ninth innings with double, and got the lead-off hitter on in the tenth, but could not capitalize against the Marist hurlers.
Five Stony Brook pitchers took the mound against Marist, striking out 11 and walking just two.
Marist returns to action on Wednesday, March 25th, when it travels to New Haven, CT to take on Yale. The Red Foxes begin Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action over the weekend, with a three-game set at Fairfield.
