Box Score
MELBOURNE, Fla. - The Southern Connecticut State University baseball team pounded out 18 hits in its 13-5 victory at Florida Tech.
Nick Baviello (Orange, Conn.) and
Joe Breen (Nashua, N.H.) each had three RBIs, while
Julian Sobin (Ansonia, Conn.) and
Matt Burns (Cheshire, Conn.) scored three runs each.
The Owls jumped on the board in the top of the first scoring four runs off Panthers' starter Chase Wissman. Burns, who led off with a double, was driven in on a Baviello single. After base hits by
T.K. Kiernan (Wallingford, Conn.) and Sobin to load the bases,
T.J. Shea (Hamden, Conn.) doubled down the rightfield line to give the visitors a 3-0 lead. Sobin later came around on the Owls' sixth base hit of the frame, a single by
Ethan Joyce (Exeter, N.H.).
Florida Tech got two right back in the bottom half of the inning, on a two-run homer from Grant McKown off Owls' starter
Jordan Hamler (Waterford, Conn.).
Southern Connecticut added to its lead in the top of the third, scoring seven times on seven hits. Sobin and Shea, who started the inning with singles, moved up a base on a passed ball. Breen plated both with a double to center.
Brandon Docimo (Stamford, Conn.) sent Wissman to the showers launching a two-run homer to left.
Later in the frame, Baviello knocked in
Kyle Holland (Norwich, Conn.) and Burns with a double. The Owls' second baseman came around to score on a single by Sobin.
McKown continued his damage in the third and fourth innings. The Panthers' rightfielder hit his second home run of the game in the bottom of the third, a solo shot to left-center, before hitting an RBI double in the fourth.
Mike Yerina (Trumbull, Conn.) came in to clean up a tough spot for Hamler in the fourth, getting out of a two-on, two-out jam with no further damage.
The sophomore earned the win going the rest of the way, allowing four hits and whiffing six.
The Owls' got a run back when Kiernan singled to score Burns in the top of the fifth.
Sobin scored Southern's final run on a Breen single in the eighth.
SCSU, now 5-3-1 on the season, plays No. 1 nationally ranked Tampa tomorrow.
