| Baseball 4/26/08 | ||
| Stockton 7, William Paterson 4 Stockton 10, William Paterson 9 | ||
The Stockton baseball team clinched a spot in the NJAC playoffs with a sweep of William Paterson by scores of 7-4 and 10-9 in the regular season finale. In the opener, winning pitcher Scott Fisher (Toms River/TR East) allowed four runs on seven hits with seven strikeouts in a complete game. Fisher also went 1-4 at the plate with a two-run double. Nick Corrado (West Deptford/Gloucester Catholic) went 3-5 with two RBI while Pat Goodwin (Mays Landing/Holy Spirit) was 2-2 with a run and an RBI.
Fisher snapped a 3-3 tie with a two-run double in the fourth inning that gave Stockton a 5-3 lead. In the fifth frame, Fisher reached on an error and two runs scored on the play to increase the Ospreys’ lead to 7-3. William Paterson scored a run with two outs in the ninth inning, but Fisher retired the next batter to complete the 7-4 Stockton victory.
Stockton scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth to erase a 9-5 deficit and win the nightcap 10-9 on a walk-off single by Jeff Lundell (Henderson, NV/Kentridge (WA)), who was 3-5 with two RBI in the game. Lundell also extended his current hitting streak to 10 games. Goodwin went 3-5 with a triple and three runs for the Ospreys. William Paterson scored five unearned runs in the eighth inning to take a 9-5 lead.
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