Stony Brook Baseball rolls past Fairfield to extend winning streak to nine

Fairfield, Conn. (April 27, 2011) – Junior Evan Stecko-Haley (Coral Gables, Fla.) allowed two hits in 6.0 shutout innings and sophomore William Carmona (Hempstead, N.Y) went 3-for-5 with three runs scored as the Stony Brook University baseball team blanked the Fairfield Stags, 9-0, on Wednesday afternoon for its ninth straight win.

Stecko-Haley (1-0) struck out six and did not walk a batter. Freshmen Josh Barry (Seaford, N.Y.) and Joshua Mason (Woodland Hills, Calif.) and junior Anthony Luciano (Holtsville, N.Y.) all tossed a scoreless inning of relief.

Sophomore Maxx Tissenbaum (Toronto, Ontario), freshman Kevin Courtney (Lindenhurst, N.Y.) and senior Stephen Marino (Lake Grove, N.Y.) each drove in two runs for the Seawolves, who out-hit Fairfield, 14-4. Sophomore Travis Jankowski (Lancaster, Pa.) added three hits and scored a run.

Stony Brook (28-9) took a 1-0 lead in the first on a two-out RBI single from Marino. The Seawolves added three runs in the third highlighted by a two-run double from Tissenbaum.

SBU tacked on a run in the fifth as Carmona scored on a Marino sacrifice fly. The Seawolves pushed their lead to 7-0 in the sixth as Courtney doubled in a run and then scored on a wild pitch.

Courtney and junior Pat Cantwell (West Islip, N.Y.) added run-scoring doubles in the eighth to make it 9-0.

The America East leading Seawolves return to action this weekend, hosting second-place Binghamton for a three-game series.