Baltimore, MD: The #3 seeded Ramapo College baseball team fell in their first game against #2 seeded Arcadia University, 7-0, before staving off elimination with a 4-1 victory over #4 St. Joseph's Long Island. The Roadrunners move to 29-15 overall while the Golden Eagles wrap up the season at 33-14 overall.
Game four of the Baltimore NCAA Regional, #1 seeded Johns Hopkins University and #2 seeded Arcadia, is to be played at 4pm tomorrow afternoon. Ramapo will play in game five set for 7:00pm start time against the loser of game four.
NCAA Regional Game 2:
Arcadia (32-12), who are ranked #20 in NCAA DIII, held the Roadrunners to five hits and no runs as they posted a 7-0 win. They scored three runs in the third and three in the fourth before adding a single run in the seventh. Will Conroy raised his record to 5-0 overall as he struck out five, walked four and scattered four hits in 6.2 innings of work. Vinny Versaci pitched the final 2.1 innings and surrendered just one hit for Arcadia.
For the Roadrunners,
James Pazdera (3-1) suffered his first loss of the season. He struck out two, walked one and surrendered six hits and six runs (five earned) in five complete innings of work.
Ryan Lasko struckout one and let up just one hit in the final three innings on the mound in relief.
NCAA Regional Game 3:
Ramapo got on the board early with two runs in the bottom of the first and one in the third. In the first inning,
John Higgins laced a single to centerfield to plate
Zach Novakowski before
Zack Bailey later scored on an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of
Matt Lalomia, 2-0. In the third, Bailey walked and moved to third on a single and an error before Ramapo loaded the bases.
Robert Klawans plated Bailey with a sac fly to right field to push the score, 3-0.
In the top of the fourth for the Golden Eagles, John Lynch led off with a solo home run to get SJLI on the board. Ramapo would get the run back in the sixth inning with a sac fly from
Christian Alonso which plated
Jesse Swartout, 4-1. Ramapo held SJLI in the final three innings including a diving catch in the left-center field gap from Roadrunners centerfielder Alonso for the first out of the 8th inning.
Jack Martin (7-2) worked a complete game with eight strikeouts, four walks while he scattered five hits and one run. Higgins and Alonso led Ramapo with two hits each.
