April 26, 2006
Final Stats
HAMDEN, CONN.-Junior Randy Gress went 3-5 with two home runs and six runs batted in to lift the Quinnipiac University baseball team to a 10-2 win over Marist on Wednesday afternoon at Bobcat Field in Hamden, Conn. The Bobcats scored 10 runs on 15 hits.
Quinnipiac improved to 15-17-1. The Red Foxes are now 16-23 overall.
The Bobcats got on the board first sending nine batters to the plate scoring five runs on five hits in the third inning. Ricky Coppola led off the inning with singled through the left side. John Delaney walked and Ryan Rizzo singled through the left side to load the bases. Wilson Matos cracked and RBI single to right center. Tim Binkoski hit a two-run single to make it 3-0. Randy Gress tripled to center field to drive in two for the 5-0 lead.
Marist cut into the Bobcat lead with a pair of runs in the fourth on a two-run homer by junior left fielder Tom Ciccarone (Somerset, N.J.), scoring senior first baseman Kevin Grauer (Plain City, Ohio), who singled up the middle to make it 5-2.
Quinnipiac got those two runs back in the fifth as Binkoski singled and Gress homered to right field to make it 7-2. The Bobcats continued on the offensive as Gress hit his second two-run homer of the game in the seventh to stretch the lead to 9-2. Kevin MacIlvane cracked a solo home run to lead off the eighth to make it 10-2.
Beyond Gress offensively for Quinnipiac, Binkoski was 2-3 with two RBIs and three runs scored, while MacIlvane was 2-5 with a solo homer. Junior right fielder Travis Musolf (Manchester, N.J.) also had a pair of hits for Marist.
Quinnipiac used eight different pitchers that combined to allow two runs on five hits. Ryan Walfield was the pitcher of record throwing a scoreless third inning to pick up the win in relief. He improved to 2-2 on the year. Marist starter Tom Close (Devon, Pa.) threw four and one-third innings, allowing six runs on eight hits. He fell to 2-2 on the season.
The Red Foxes will be back in action Saturday as they host Manhattan in a doubleheader beginning as 12 p.m. Both teams enter the contest tied for third in the MAAC with 9-5 records.
