NEWBURGH – The Mount Saint Mary College baseball team split their doubleheader against Purchase to move to 3-1 in conference play.
Game 1
Mount Saint Mary opened the scoring in the bottom of the 1st, scoring three runs. Chris Calvario singled to spark the rally, followed by singles from Christian Parisa and Tyler Van De Bogart, setting up Luke Barone’s RBI walk and Aidan Marshall’s two-RBI single, which scored an extra run on a Purchase error, making it 3-0. Purchase responded in the 2nd, cutting it to 3-2 with a single and a sac fly, helped by a Mount error. The Panthers took the lead in the 3rd, scoring three runs on a RBI double and an RBI groundout.
The Knights trimmed it to 5-4 in the 3rd when a balk scored Marshall, but Purchase pulled away in the 4th with two runs on a RBI single and a bases-loaded walk extending the lead 7-4. The Mount clawed back in the 5th with Tyler Crocitto’s sac fly scoring Barone, making it 7-5, and tied it at 7 in the 6th when Van De Bogart scored on a Purchase error. Purchase exploding for three runs in the 7th on a two-run homer and a wild pitch pushing the score to 10-7. The Knights couldn’t mount a comeback.
Game 2
Purchase State grabbed a 1-0 lead in the 1st when a run scored on a wild pitch. The Panthers extended their advantage to 4-0 in the 3rd, with an RBI single and an RBI double, helped by multiple wild pitches. Mount Saint Mary stormed back in the bottom of the 3rd, cutting it to 4-3.
The Knights took control in the 4th, scoring five runs. Van De Bogart’s two-RBI single and Luke Barone’s RBI on a Purchase error capped the rally, giving Mount Saint Mary an 8-7 lead after Purchase had extended the lead to 7-3 in the top half with a two-RBI single. Mount Saint Mary kept on scoring in the 5th, adding three runs, pushing it to 11-7.
Purchase narrowed it to 11-9 in the 6th with a RBI double and a sac fly, but John Morehead came in and shut the door stranding a runner on second with one out. The Knights answered in the 7th with Barone’s two-RBI double and sealed it in the 8th with Signorelli’s RBI double scoring Justin Stella, making it 14-9. John Morehead shut down Purchase finishing the final 3.2 innings giving up 0 runs for his second save.
