| Baseball 5/10/08 | ||
| ECAC Metro Tournament: Ramapo 10, Stockton 5 Stockton 5, Mount St. Vincent 0 | ||
The top-seeded Stockton baseball team split its first two ECAC Metro tournament games. The Ospreys fell to second-seeded Ramapo 10-5 in a winners’ bracket game. Stockton then eliminated third-seeded Mount St. Vincent 5-0 and set a new school record with its 23rd victory of the season, breaking the previous mark of 22 wins last year.
Pat Goodwin (Mays Landing/Holy Spirit) went 4-5 with a double while Joe Sacerdote (Deptford/Gloucester Catholic) was 2-4 with a double and two runs against Ramapo. Jeff Lundell (Henderson, NV/Kentridge (WA)) extended his hitting streak to 13 games by going 2-4 with a run and an RBI for the Ospreys.
Ramapo snapped a 3-3 tie with five runs on six hits in the seventh inning. Stockton closed the gap to 8-5 on RBI singles by Goodwin in the seventh inning and Nick DiGirolamo (Dumont/Dumont) in the eighth frame, but Ramapo added two runs in the top of the ninth and shut down the Ospreys for the 10-5 final score.
Joe Mihalyi (Hamilton/Nottingham) pitched a two-hit shutout with a career-high 11 strikeouts in the 5-0 victory over Mount St. Vincent. Matt Hunt (Marlton/St. Joseph) went 1-4 with two RBI and Goodwin was 1-3 with a double and a run scored for the Ospreys. Sacerdote and Scott Fisher (Toms River/TR East) each went 1-3 with two runs apiece in the game.
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