April 2, 2006
Mercy Baseball Edged by Queens, 15-13
FLUSHING, NY - Mercy College collected 15 hits, but fell
by a score of 15-13, in a slugfest at the hands of host Queens
College in a New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC)
baseball game on Sunday, April 3. The Flyers are now 5-14 overall
and 3-4 in NYCAC play. Queens moved to 3-6 overall and 3-4 in
league play.
Freshman
second baseman Ryan Johnson (Saugerties, NY) led
the Mercy offense with five runs batted in on the day, going
3-for-6 with a three-run home run. Junior shortstop Craig
Ross (Bellmore, NY) went deep for the second game in a row
and finished 3-for-5. Junior catcher Eugene DeMayo (Olive
Bridge, NY) also went 3-for-5, while senior first baseman
Joe DeMuria (Islip, NY) smacked his first
round-tripper of the year.
After
scoring two unearned runs in the top of the first inning, the
Flyers pushed across five more in the third to build a 7-0 lead.
DeMuria delivered three runs with his home run and Johnson added an
RBI single.
The Knights
came right back with five runs of their own in the bottom of the
inning, two of them unearned, cutting the deficit to 7-5.
Mercy got
one back on Ross's solo shot in the fourth, but Queens took
advantage of another Mercy error in its half of the frame to score
three times and knot the contest at 8-8.
The Flyers
regained an 11-8 lead in the fifth on Johnson's three-run blast,
but once again Queens answered in the bottom of the inning, this
time with five runs to go ahead 13-11, and added another in the
sixth.
The two
teams traded single runs in the eighth and Mercy added another in
the ninth, but the Knights' bullpen was able to close it out.
Mercy is
back in action again on Monday, April 3, at home against Dominican
College. First pitch is set for 3:30 p.m.
