Baseball Falls to TCNJ
Lions score four times in innings three through five to rally from early deficit
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WINTER HAVEN, Florida – Freshman Jacob Dewitt (Florence, N.J.) and junior Scott Kelly (West Windsor, N.J.) each had a pair of hits while sophomore Jim Furhman (Hamilton, N.J.) pitched 7.1 strong innings as The College of New Jersey baseball team (2-2) cruised to a 12-2 win over Wentworth (3-3) in a non-league contest played at Chain of Lakes Park.
The game was scoreless through the first two innings before the Leopards broke the ice with a run in the top of the third. Freshman Jake Mailman (Medway, Mass.) led off with a walk and went to second on a classmate Joe Hulme (Tewksbury, Mass.) single. Both moved up 90 feet on a sacrifice bunt from sophomore Paul Dassau (Franklin, Mass.) and Mailman crossed the plate on a sacrifice fly from junior Alex Wong (Lewiston, Maine).
The Lions tied the game in the home half of the inning as freshman Anthony Cocuzza (Abascon, N.J.) and Joseph Dispoto had back-to-back singles. TCNJ used small ball to move them both up a base as Kelly delivered a sacrifice bunt and Cocuzza come home to score on a groundout RBI from junior Nick Cifelli (Ewing, N.J.).
TCNJ took the lead an inning later when junior Michael Murphy (Staten Island, N.Y.) hit a one-out single and stole second. He would come around to score on a Dewitt RBI single to make it a 2-1 game. The Lions added two more in the fifth, thanks in part to a pair of Leopard errors, as Cifelli had his second RBI groundout of the game, and broke the game open with six runs in the seventh inning. Wentworth scored a run in the top of the eighth when Dassau scored on a wild pitch before the Lions closed out the game with two in the eighth.
Furhman (1-0) allowed two runs on two hits while striking out six batters in his 7.1 innings of work. Classmate Brian O'Connell (North Massapequa, N.Y.) struck out both batters he faced.
Senior Adam Farrar (Newport, Vt.) allowed four runs (three earned) on six hits in 4.2 innings of work. Junior Ryan Conrad (East Bridgewater, Mass.) went 2.1 innings, allowing four earned runs, while junior Ryan DeCotis (Nashua, N.H.) and sophomore Charlie McCubrey (Brookline, N.H.) pitched the eighth for the Black & Gold.