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Princeton University Athletics
Princeton University
St. John's
Baseball Falls at St. John's 6-4
April 27, 2004 | Baseball
April 27, 2004
Box Score
Jamaica, N.Y. - The Prineton baseball team fell at St. John's 6-4 Tuesday night in mid-week non-conference action. Junior B.J. Szymanski hit his sixth home run of the season in the loss.
St. John's jumped to an early lead in the first inning scoring three runs on three hits. The inning started with back-to-back singles. Then a sac bunt moved the runners to second and third for Eddie Schultz who singled to center, but a fielding error allowed Schultz to go all the way to third. Both runners scored on the play. The Red Storm then added one more run in the inning when Schultz scored on a passed ball. The Red Storm tacked on two more runs in the second inning by stringing together a single, a walk, a sac bunt, a fielder's choice and a sacrifice fly to make the score 5-0 after two innings of play. Princeton chipped three runs off of the lead and chased St. John's starter Jim Wladyka in the fourth inning. With one out, junior Will Venable tripled off the wall in straight-away center field, his second hit of the evening. He scored when the following batter, senior Ryan Reich drove a deep sac fly to center field. Freshman Sal Iacono was then walked on four consecutive pitches, which brought up sophomore Matthew Becker, who plated him with a double off the scoreboard in left center. The Tigers were not done in the inning and made it 5-3 when senior Steve Young ripped a double over the first base bag and into the right field corner to score Becker.
St. John's added a run in the sixth to make the score 6-3. Mike Rozema hit a one-out single through the right side, stole second, then scored on Blake Hershelman's double.
Princeton, however, got the run right back on the first pitch of the following inning when Szymanski launched his sixth home run of the season over the wall in right field. Six homers ties Szymanski with senior Tim Lahey for the team lead.
Princeton had chances in the final two innings to push more runs across but the Tigers were unable to push any more runs across the plate as they left two runners stranded in each inning.
Princeton starter Matt Sullivan went six innings and allowed six runs, two of which were unearned, on 10 hits. He fell to 1-2 with the loss. Junior Brian Biegen pitched two scoreless innings in relief. Wladyka picked up the win and he is now 3-3 on the season.
The Tigers return to action on Friday for the first of two doubleheaders with Cornell. The series with the Big Red wraps up on Sunday. Princeton needs one win to clinch the Gehrig Division title.