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St. John's Defeats Princeton Baseball, 6-2
April 22, 2008 | Baseball
St. John's scored three runs in the sixth inning to break open a tight game and
defeat the Princeton baseball team 6-2 on Tuesday night at Jack Kaiser Stadium.
Sophomore David Hale drove in both Tigers runs in the loss.
The Red
Storm broke a scoreless tie in the bottom of the third inning by pushing two
runs across the plate. St. John's had runner on second and third with an out
when Gino Matias single through the right side to plate both runs, one of which
was unearned.
Princeton got one of those runs back in its following at bat when
sophomore Jack Murphy hit a leadoff double to the right field corner.
Consecutive groundouts from senior Spencer Lucian and sophomore David Hale
brought Murphy home with Princeton's first run of the game.
St.
John's quickly regained the two-run advantage in the bottom of the fourth inning
as Gil Zayas reached on a single and scored on an error. St. John's added three
more runs in the sixth inning as Zayas drew a leadoff walk and later scored on a
Greg Hopkins sacrifice fly and then Jeff Grantham walked and scored on Carlos
Del Rosario's triple. Del Rosario plated the final run on a double steal of
home.
Princeton chipped a run off the Red Storm lead in the eighth inning when
the Tigers put two on with a walk to Murphy and an infield single from Lucian,
setting up Hale to drive in Murphy with a single through the right
side.
Both
starters, Princeton sophomore Langford Stuber and St. John's Ryan Cole, went
five innings. Cole allowed a run on four hits while striking out 10 in the win.
Stuber allowed three runs, only one of which was earned, on five hits.
Princeton falls to 16-21 with the loss. The Tigers return to action on Friday when the play an Ivy League doubleheader at Cornell.