ITHACA, N.Y. -- The baseball team (13-12) held visiting St. Lawrence (16-17) to two hits in a 4-0 non-league win Wednesday. The win was Ithaca's 23rd straight over the Saints; the Bombers are 78-16-1 all-time against St. Lawrence, including a 36-1-1 record since 1988.
Seven Ithaca pitchers combined to hold the Saints hitless over the final 6.2 innings as the Bombers won in just the second game they've played in the past 11 days. Senior
Andrew Wall (Newfield/Newfield) earned the win, with two innings of no-hit relief. He evened his record at 2-2, allowing just two baserunners while throwing 30 pitches over the sixth and seventh. Sophomore
Pat Lemmo (Westhill/Syracuse) and junior
Tucker Healy (Needham/Needham, Mass.) were perfect in the eighth and ninth innings, respectively.
The Bombers scored their first two runs with the benefir of just one hit. Freshman shortstop
Tim LoCastro (Auburn/Auburn) legged out a single to third base to lead off the third, then stole second and got to third when senior center fielder
Rob Zappia (Greece Athena/Rochester) reached on an infield error. On an infielder grounder off the bat of junior second baseman
Matt Keller (Pelham/Pelham), St. Lawrence caught
LoCastro in a rundown between third and home, then caught
Zappia in a rundown between second and third. The Saints wound up throwing home to try to retire
LoCastro; the throw beat him to the plate, but was dropped by the infielder covering home. Designated hitter
David Ahonen (Victor/Farmington), a graduate student, brought home
Zappia with a sacrifice fly.
Ahonen, who had reached on a one-out double in the sixth, scored Ithaca's third run on a single by junior left fielder Taegen Barresi
(Lansing/Lansing).
Barresi came home on a single up the middle by freshman third baseman
Colby Gee (Dryden/Freeville).
Senior
Aaron Sapp (Niskayuna/Niskayuna), Ithaca's second pitcher, worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam in the third that represented St. Lawrence's best scoring chance. After allowing three consecutive Saints to reach base (on two walks sandwiched around an infield single), Sapp struck out St. Lawrence's clean-up hitter then induced an inning-ending groundout.
Lo Castro and
Gee both had two of Ithaca's 10 hits.
The Bombers are scheduled to host St. John Fisher in a 2 p.m. doubleheader Friday.
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