Box Score

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – A grand slam by Ryan Geffert (Plymouth, Pa.) in the third inning was enough to defeat the Le Moyne Dolphins in the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament. The Dolphins defeated the Owls today 5-4. Southern Connecticut started the third inning with three singles by Greg Pacelli (Hamden, Conn.), T.K. Kiernan (Wallingford, Conn.) and Kyle Cummings (Hamden, Conn.) to load the bases before Geffert unloaded them with a homer to right field. Le Moyne wasn't able to get onto the board until the fifth when they exploded for five runs. All five runs by the Dolphins came with two outs in the inning. The Owls couldn't do anything in the sixth, seventh and eighth innings, going down 1-2-3 in all three innings. SCSU started off the ninth with a walk by Peter Testa (Orange, Conn.) and made it two third on a sac bunt and a ground out. With the tying run on third, the Dolphins walked T.K. Kiernan to put runners on the corner but got the next batter, Cummings to ground out to shortstop to end the game.

Daniel Murdoch (Newtown, Conn.) started for the Owls in the quarterfinal matchup and was tabbed with a no decision. Murdoch allowed four runs, on six hits and walked three batters over 4 2/3 innings pitched. Rocco Cundari (Norwalk, Conn.) relieved Murdoch in the middle of the fifth and went two innings. Cundari allowed one run, on two hits and struck out four but was unfortunately tabbed with the loss. Pat Egan (Aberdeen, N.J.) threw a hitless 1 1/3 innings and fanned two batters.

Geffert led the Owls with a team-high four RBI on his grand slam in the third. Pacelli and Kiernan each tallied two hits and one run scored in the loss. Sam Greenberg (Guilford, Conn.), Cummings, Bryan Dorsey (Cheshire, Conn.) and Nick Baviello (Orange, Conn.) each collected one hit.


SCSU drops to a record of 31-17 on the year. The Owls will now wait and see if they will be rewarded with an at-large bid into the Division II National Tournament.