Baseball Tops Holy Cross 10-4 on the Road on Tuesday Night

Seniors Sean Allaire and Tommy Meade each drove in three runs as the Central Connecticut State University baseball team topped Holy Cross 10-4 on Tuesday night. Central evens its record at 11-11 with the victory. They will return to action on Friday in conference action at Sacred Heart.

Central took a 4-0 lead with two runs in each of the first two innings. In the first junior Pat Epps hit a two-run home run to right center field scoring sophomore Mitch Wells. It was the fourth home run of the season for Epps. In the second inning Allaire tripled home a run and Wells added an RBI as the Blue Devils climbed out to the 4-0 advantage.

Holy Cross scored one in the fourth. The Blue Devils got the run back in the fifth when Wells drove in his second run of the game making it 5-1.

After Holy Cross scored one run in the sixth, the Blue Devils opened it up with three runs in the top of the seventh inning. Meade hit his seventh home run of the season, a three-run shot, to give Central the 8-2 lead.

Allaire finished the scoring for the Blue Devils with a two-run home run in the eighth, the third of the game for the visitors. It was his third of the season.

Wells and Epps each drove in two, while Allaire and Meade had three RBI each. Allaire, Epps and Meade all homered in the victory.

Senior Dan Markoya earned the victory on the mound for the Blue Devils, he is now 1-1 on the season. He pitched five innings allowing just one run on five hits while striking out four. Freshman Nick Neumann, sophomore Roy Natoli and senior Kyle Zarotney combined to pitch the final four innings. Natoli and Zarotney did not allow a hit or a run in the eighth and ninth innings.

Central returns to action on Friday at Sacred Heart in the first game of a weekend series with the Pioneers.