Seniors Kerski and Walko Lead Blue Devils to Doubleheader Sweep of Wagner on Saturday
The Central Connecticut baseball team recorded its first wins in Northeast Conference play this season with a doubleheader sweep over Wagner on Saturday afternoon. With the win the Blue Devils are now 11-7 overall and 2-1 in the NEC. In game one senior lefty Ken Kerski pitched a complete game as CCSU won 6-1. In the second game senior outfielder Casey Walko drove in three runs, including his second home run of the week, as the Blue Devils completed the sweep with a 10-9 win in the second game. The two teams will complete the weekend series with a single game on Sunday.
The Central Connecticut baseball team recorded its first wins in
Northeast Conference play this season with a doubleheader sweep
over Wagner on Saturday afternoon. With the win the Blue Devils
are now 11-7 overall and 2-1 in the NEC. In game one senior lefty
Ken
Kerski pitched a complete game as CCSU won 6-1. In the second
game senior outfielder Casey
Walko drove in three runs, including his second home run of the
week, as the Blue Devils completed the sweep with a 10-9 win in the
second game. The two teams will complete the weekend series with a
single game on Sunday.
Kerski pitched a complete game allowing just seven hits and one
earned run in game one. Junior Sean
Allaire and freshman Mitch
Wells each drove in a run in the victory for CCSU.
A four run second inning was the difference for the Blue Devils in
the first game. The first five batters of the inning reached for
the Blue Devils. Sophomore Pat
Epps singled to left field to lead off the inning and went to
second on a single by junior Anthony
Scialdone. Junior Richie
Tri singled to load the bases. Epps scored on a wild pitch,
putting runners on second and third. Junior Tommy
Meade walked and Scialdone then scored on an RBI single by
senior catcher Sean
Parker. Wells provided an RBI fielder's choice and Allaire's
sacrifice fly plated Meade and made it 4-0 in favor of the Blue
Devils.
In the fourth inning Allaire singled in his second run of the game
to make it 5-0. A Wells RBI single in the sixth made it 6-0.
Kerski did not allow a run until the bottom of the seventh inning.
The Seahawks scored a run on two hits in the inning to avoid the
shutout.
The win is the first this season for Kerski and the first league
win of the season for the Blue Devils. He scattered seven hits
and struck out two in the victory.
In game two the Blue Devils wasted little time and put four runs on
the scoreboard in the first inning to take a 4-0 lead. Allaire
opened the game with a single but was erased on a fielder's choice
by Walko. Senior Jay
Schillaci reached on an error and Walko scored on the play.
Sophomore Pat
Epps singled in Schillaci from second to make it
2-0. Scialdone reached on a single and then Tri drove in his first
run of the day to make it 3-0. Senior Tommy
Meade drove in the fourth run with a fielder's choice.
The Blue Devils added two more runs in the second inning. Allaire
singled, stole second and then scored on a two-run home run by
Walko. It was Walko's second home run in the last three games, and
it gave CCSU a 6-0 lead.
Meade hit his first home run of the season with one out in the
third inning to stretch the lead to 7-0. Wagner scored a run in
the third and two more in the fourth to cut the lead to 7-3.
Three more runs in the top of the sixth inning gave the Blue Devils
a 10-3 lead. Walko's sacrifice fly, Schillaci's RBI single and
Epps' sacrifice bunt all drove in runs for the visitors. Wagner
scored two more runs in the bottom of the sixth to chase CCSU
starter Taylor
Kosakowski from the game. He left after allowing eight hits in
5.2 innings to go along with five runs, only four of which were
earned. Junior Chris
Chagnon entered the game to record the final out of the
sixth.
Wagner scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh to cut the
final score to 10-9. Chagnon pitched the final 1.1 innings. The
runs he allowed in the seventh inning were the first allowed for
him this season in 11 innings of action.
CCSU and Wagner will play a final nine inning game on Sunday to
complete the weekend NEC series.