Baseball Falls To Rutgers, 11-1
5/15/2010 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - The Seton Hall baseball team pounded out 11 hits, but were only able to plate one run as they fell to Rutgers, 11-1, Saturday afternoon at Owen T. Carroll Field. The game was delayed for 12 minutes in the top of the second due to a swarm of bees in right field.
Following the delay, Ryan Kapp started the scoring with a two-run home run over the left-center field fence in the top of the second, but the Pirates would come back to cut the deficit in half in the bottom of the second.
Reid Pulford (Medford, N.J.) drew a one-out walk and stole second base. Two batters later, Nick Ammirati (Sparta, N.J.) drove a Dennis Hill delivery into right field for a run-scoring single.
Still ahead, 2-1, in the top of the fifth, Pat Biserta and Steve Nyisztor hit back-to-back RBI singles for the Scarlet Knights to take a, 4-1, advantage.
In the home half of the sixth, the Hall looked to cut their deficit again when Pulford, Giuseppe Papaccio (Nutley, N.J.) and Ammirati reached base with one-out, but Hill buckled down to strike out Chris Fontenelli (Toms River, N.J.) and induce an inning-ending fielder's choice groundout off the bat of Bobby Abreu (Piscataway N.J.).
Rutgers used the momentum to plate seven runs on five hits - and two Pirate errors - in the top of the seventh highlighted by an RBI double by Kapp and a two-run single by Dan Betteridge.
Hill (3-5) shut down the Pirates the rest of the way to earn a complete-game victory allowing the one run on 11 hits while striking out three. Frank Morris (Levittown, Pa.) (1-7) suffered the loss surrendering six earned runs on eight hits in six innings of work.
Abreu, Ammirati, and A.J. Rusbarsky (Freehold, N.J.) led the Pirates offense with two hits apiece.
The Pirates and Scarlet Knights will complete the three-game series tomorrow afternoon beginning at noon. Prior to first pitch, the Seton Hall will honor seven seniors, team manager Eric So Hayda, Bobby Abreu, Frank Esposito, Chris Spagnuolo, Michael Rogers, Chris Fontenelli, and Matt Singer for their years of hard work and dedication.
