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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Despite holding a 1-0 series lead following yesterday's 5-0 win, the Southern Connecticut State University baseball team was unable to stop Le Moyne College from taking the final two games of the series by the scores of 3-2, 11 innings, and 10-5, on Senior Day at the Ballpark at SCSU.

Southern Connecticut concludes the 2016 season with an overall record of 16-25-1 and  8-10 while Le Moyne advances to the Northeast-10 Conference Championship, as the third seed, and improves to 27-16 and 10-8.

Also, prior to the start of today's game, the SCSU baseball team and head coach Tim Shea honored its eight-member senior class -  Austin Brochu, Jake DeRosa, Jason Harper, Jake Lieberman, Jake Paul, Jordan Picini, Joe Uccello and Alex Wichmann.



GAME 1: Le Moyne 3 | SCSU 2 (11 innings)
Sophomore Griffin Bremer (Higganum, Conn.) earned the start for the Owls and pitched a total of nine innings. The lefty allowed two runs on seven hits as well as recorded a walk and six strikeouts. Sophomore Jake Santamaria (Oceanside, N.Y.) earned the loss for the Owls after allowing a hit and a run over the final two innings. He also recorded a walk and three strikeouts.

Seniors Alex Wichmann (Granby, Conn.) and Jake DeRosa (North Haven, Conn.) had an impressive start to the day, recording a team-high two hits a piece while Wichmann, as well as redshirt junior Joe Uccello (Glastonbury, Conn.), tallied one of the Owls' two run scored. Redshirt freshman Nick Lamberti (East Haven, Conn.) and junior Ethan Joyce (Exeter, N.H.) finished game one with an RBI each.

Le Moyne got things started in the top of the first scoring a run off a single down the right field line to take the early lead, 1-0.

In the bottom of the third, Southern Connecticut rallied together to take its first lead of the day 2-1 as Wichmann began the inning with a single down the left field line before advancing to second as Uccello was walked. With no outs, Southern Connecticut kept the threat alive, loading the bases following an infield single by DeRosa. Lamberti brought in the first run of the day off his sacrifice fly to center before Joyce brought home Uccello following a sacrifice bunt to the pitcher. With two outs, Southern Connecticut's threat was still alive as DeRosa and senior Jake Lieberman (Commack, N.Y.) were in scoring position, but senior Jake Paul (Kingston, N.Y.) would record the final out of the inning with a strikeout.

Over the next five innings, both pitchers kept each other quiet until the top of the ninth as Le Moyne tied the game, 2-2, before scoring the game-winning run in the top of 11th to take game one, 3-2.

GAME TWO: Le Moyne 10 | SCSU 5

Junior Kyle Hart (North Branford, Conn.) led the Owls offense in game two with a team-high three hits and four RBI while freshman Mike DeMartino (New Haven, Conn.) and DeRosa collected two hits, respectively.

Freshman Quantique White (New London, Conn.) earned the loss in game two after allowing four runs on three hits over 0.1 innings on the mound. Senior Jason Harper (Saugus, Mass.) started on the mound for the hosts and pitched a total of eight innings, recording 10 hits, three runs and three strikeouts. Seniors Jordan Picini (Attleboro, Mass.) and Austin Brochu (Winsted, Conn.) also saw some playing time on the mound on Senior Day.

Similar to game one, Le Moyne struck first scoring a run in the top of the second to take the early 1-0 lead, but Southern Connecticut would tie the game in the bottom of the third thanks to an RBI double from Hart to allow DeRosa to come home.

However, Le Moyne would regain the lead over the Owls after scoring back-to-back runs in the top of the fourth and fifth inning to put the Dolphins up two, 3-1.

Southern Connecticut was kept quiet on offense until the bottom of the seventh as Hart had another huge at-bat and allowed two runs to score to tie the game again, 3-3.

In the top of the ninth, Le Moyne found its groove and scored seven runs on six hits to take a commanding 10-3 lead over the Owls. Southern Connecticut could only play catch-up in the bottom of the ninth as the Owls could only score two runs to cut the lead in half, 10-5, before recording the final out.