March 22, 2006
Final Stats
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Yale used three RBI from designated hitter John Janco and strong efforts from nine different pitchers to down the Marist baseball team 9-6 Wednesday afternoon at Yale Field. The Bulldogs improved to 9-6 overall with the victory, while Marist, who has dropped six straight, fell to 4-11.
The Bulldogs' Jon Hollis (3-0) picked up the staff victory, tossing the third inning of the game, while Marist's Jacob Wiley fell to 0-2 on the season. Wiley went three and a third innings with seven hits and four earned runs. He also struck out three and walked none. Brett Rosenthal picked up his fourth save of the season for Yale, giving up two hits over the final inning and two-thirds with a pair of strikeouts.
Yale got on the board first in the bottom of the second when Marist freshman second baseman Kyle Meyer (Greenbush, N.Y.) misplayed a grounder by Janco, scoring center fielder Jake Doyle on the play. However, Marist knotted the score at 1 in the top of the third when junior left fielder Tom Ciccarone (Somerville, N.J.) raced home on a passed ball by Yale catcher Eric Rasmussen.
Yale pulled ahead 2-1 in the bottom half of the third when shortstop Justin Ankney knocked in third baseman Pedro Obregon with a sharply hit single to right field.
Yale exploded for four more runs in the bottom of the fourth with a Janco RBI double to left center, a run-scoring single from right fielder Ryan Lavarnway, an RBI groundout from Obregon and an RBI single up the middle by left fielder Josh Cox.
The Bulldogs plated three more runs in the bottom of the fifth on a pair of homers to right off of Marist reliever Josh Rickards (Glenolden, Pa.). First baseman Marc Sawyer nailed the first blast, while Janco followed with a two-run shot to make the score 9-1 Yale.
The Red Foxes' "3 M's" powered Marist to five runs in the eighth inning. Sophomore second baseman John Mazzello (Hyde Park, N.Y.) roped a two-run double to right, followed by a two-run double by freshman center fielder Max Most (Port Washington, N.Y.). Junior right fielder Travis Musolf (Manchester, N.J.) capped the frame with a run-scoring single to left.
Doyle scored three runs on the afternoon to lead Yale, while Ciccarone had a pair to top Marist. Musolf's three hits also paced the Red Foxes.
Marist will turn its attention to its opening MAAC series with a doubleheader at Rider on Saturday at 12 p.m.
