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phillips
6
Winner Le Moyne LEM 26-21
0
Southern Connecticut SCS 30-13-1
Winner
Le Moyne LEM
26-21
6
Final
0
Southern Connecticut SCS
30-13-1
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Le Moyne LEM 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 1 6 8 1
Southern Connecticut SCS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 1

W: Matt Tarby (3-4) L: Fox, Spencer (1-2)

Game Recap: Baseball |

SCSU Baseball Falls To Le Moyne In NE10 Championship First Round

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Despite a brilliant performance on the mound by Owls starter Steve Phillips, Southern Connecticut lost to Le Moyne, 6-0, in its Northeast 10 Conference Championship First Round matchup at The Ballpark at SCSU. The Owls drop to 30-13-1 overall while Le Moyne improves to 26-21.

Phillips was in control for his entire seven-inning stint, while locked into a pitching duel against Le Moyne's Jacob Marshall. Both pitchers cruised through the oppositions lineup, which was also hampered by 30 MPH wind gusts that knocked the long-ball out of the play for the entire game. Phillips scattered three hits while striking out five against one walk over seven innings of scoreless ball, while Marshall struck out seven over six innings.

Phillips gave up a base hit to Zach Brush to start the game, before a wild pitch moved Brush to second. Phillips was able to settle in and retire the next three batters. In fact, Phillips retired the next eight batters after the first, for 11-straight batters, into the fourth inning. He gave up a two-out single and hit another batter with a pitch but was able to navigate through the inning.

After retiring the Dolphins in order in the fifth, he gave up a single to Brush on a come-backer that glanced off of Phillips glove and landed in no man's land. After Drew Carroll failed to get the bunt down and popped it up to Jack Drewry at first, Phillip's picked off Brush for the second out of the inning. He retired Michael Smith to end the inning and then pitched a scoreless seventh.

The Owls offense was held to just two hits by Jacob, including a fly ball by Mike Ferrett in the second inning that dropped in between two outfielders after the wind blew it around the outfield. The Owls only managed two baserunners, on a walk and a hit batter, before Goggin singled with two outs in the sixth.

In the eighth, Spencer Fox replaced Phillips on the mound. Fox gave up a lead-off single and hit the next batter before Brush singled up the middle and scored Jason Boule with game's first run. Peter Phillips then entered the game for Fox and gave up a two-run single by Michael Smith to give the Dolphins a 3-0 lead. By the end of the inning, Le Moyne had plated five runs. They added a sixth in their final at-bat.

In the bottom of the either, Chad Fedeli singled to start the inning before moving to third on a single by Zambito. Zambito then tied the Owls' single-season stolen base record with No. 39 of the year.
The Owls will await the NCAA Division II Baseball selection show on Sunday, May 15 to learn their fate for the NCAA Regional slated for May 19-22.

NOTES
  • Zambito's stolen base tied the all-time single-season record set by Mike Diaz in 2008 of 39. Zambito previously broke the Owls' career stolen base record and now has 97 for his career. The owls' senior has 15 stolen bases in his last 11 games.
  • Mike DeMartino also became the first player in SCSU Baseball history to play in 200 career games with his outing against Le Moyne.
  • Phillips took his fifth no decision of the season after pitching well enough for what should have been a NE10-leading ninth win of the season. With his seven scoreless innings, Phillips dropped his team-leading ERA to 3.39.
  • The start was Phillips' longest of the season and the second time he held the opponent scoreless.
 
 
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