Blue Devils Win Third Straight, Top Monmouth 11-7 on Thursday Afternoon
Sophomore Mitch Wells and senior Sean Allaire each drove in three runs as the Central Connecticut State University baseball team topped Monmouth 11-7 in the first game of a weekend series between the Northeast Conference opponents. The Blue Devils are now 6-7 overall and 3-2 in NEC action. Monmouth falls to 6-10 overall and 2-3 in league play. The two teams will continue the series with a doubleheader on Friday beginning at 1 p.m.
Sophomore Mitch Wells and senior Sean
Allaire each drove in three runs as the Central Connecticut
State University baseball team topped Monmouth 11-7 in the first
game of a weekend series between the Northeast Conference
opponents. The Blue Devils are now 6-7 overall and 3-2 in NEC
action. Monmouth falls to 6-10 overall and 2-3 in league play.
The two teams will continue the series with a doubleheader on
Friday beginning at 1 p.m.
Central got on the board first in the bottom of the second inning.
With the bases loaded and one out, junior Sean Miller-Jones
singled to short right field to score two runs and give the Blue
Devils the 2-0 lead.
The Hawks scored an unearned run in the top of the third inning and
then three more in the fourth to take a 4-2 lead.
The Blue Devils took a 7-4 lead in the bottom of the fourth
inning. Sophomore Mitch Wells hit a two-run
home run to right field to tie the game 4-4. It was his second
home run of the season. With the bases loaded, senior Sean
Allaire doubled to deep center field to plate three runners and
give the Blue Devils the three-run lead.
Monmouth plated two in the sixth off Blue Devil reliever Jack
Greenhouse to make it 7-6.
The Blue Devils answered in the bottom of the sixth, scoring four
runs and making it 11-6. Junior Normand
Gosselin scored from third on a wild pitch, and senior Anthony
Scialdone tripled to deep left center field to score
Miller-Jones, who had been hit by a pitch. Scialdone scored on a
single through the left side by junior Pat Epps. Epps scored after
back-to-back hits by senior Tommy Meade and Wells. It
was the third RBI of the game for Wells.
Greenhouse picked up the win in relief for the Blue Devils. He
pitched five innings and allowed just two hits, one earned run and
struck out three for his first victory of the season.
The Blue Devils and Hawks will play a pair of seven-inning games on
Friday beginning at 1 p.m.