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Game 1 Box Score
Game 2 Box Score
Stony Brook, N.Y. - The Stony Brook University baseball team closed the regular season in style, celebrating Senior Day and Alumni Day with a sweep of Albany on Saturday afternoon at Joe Nathan Field. The Seawolves have won 11 in a row and 22 of their last 23 and will now host the 2011 America East Tournament at Joe Nathan Field on May 25-28. (WUSB)
Stony Brook finished its record breaking regular season at 41-10 overall and 22-2 in the America East. The 22 conference wins ties an America East record.
The Seawolves routed Albany 13-4 in the opener before edging the Great Danes, 4-3, in the second game. The Seawolves honored their four seniors- Chad Marshall, Stephen Marino, Evan Stecko-Haley and Anthony Luciano- prior to the first game.
Stony Brook scored three unearned runs in the opening inning to jump to an early lead in game one. The Seawolves then added two more runs in the second to push their lead to 5-0.
Albany left seven men on base in the first two innings before finally scoring a run in the third on an RBI single from Vincent Martorelli. But SBU added three runs in the fourth highlighted by an RBI triple from junior Pat Cantwell (West Islip, N.Y.) and a run-scoring single from sophomore Tanner Nivins (Kitchener, Ontario).
Stony Brook tacked on two more runs in the fifth on a two-run single from sophomore Maxx Tissenbaum (Toronto, Ontario) before closing the scoring on a three-run home run from junior Keith Murakami (Monterey Park, Calif.) in the sixth. Sophomore James Campbell (Bridgeport, Conn.) pitched 3.0 innings of scoreless relief to earn the victory.
Albany grabbed the early lead in game two, scoring a run in the first on a two-out RBI single from Josh Nethaway. Stony Brook answered back with two runs in the third as junior Sal Intagliata (Franklin Square, N.Y.) walked with one out and then came around to score when Marshall doubled and Albany threw the ball away trying to get Marshall at second.
Sophomore William Carmona (Hempstead, N.Y.) followed with an infield hit to score Marshall and give the Seawolves a 2-1 lead. Carmona doubled in the opening game to break Andrew Larsen's school record of 25 doubles in a season.
Neither team scored over the next three innings before a Murakami two-run single in the seventh pushed the Stony Brook lead to 4-1. Albany cut the SBU lead to 4-3 in the eighth on a two-out two-run single from Nethaway.
Albany then put runners on first and second with one out in the ninth but Carmona got Nolan Gaige to fly out to left for the second out before Kyle Crean flew out to center to end the game. Stecko-Haley allowed just one run in 6.0 innings to pick up the victory for SBU.
