Baseball Downs Mount St. Mary's in Extra Innings

May 14, 2021

Central Connecticut baseball outlasted Mount St. Mary's, 5-2, in 10 innings on Friday in Northeast Conference action at Straw Family Stadium. The Blue Devils hit a pair of homeruns in the game to win its fifth game of the year over the Mountaineers.

GAME INFORMATION
Score: CCSU 5, Mount St. Mary's 2 (10 innings)
Records: CCSU (21-11, 18-8 NEC), MSM (9-26, 5-17 NEC)
Location: Straw Family Stadium | Emmitsburg, MD
Pitching Record: W: Neuman (3-0) | L: Kennedy (1-6) | Sv: - -

KEY MOMENTS

Mount St. Mary's managed just four hits through the first 6.1 innings, but it would open the scoring with a solo homerun by Andrew Malone to make it 1-0.
The Blue Devils responded by taking the lead in the eighth inning. Junior Jay Devito drew a leadoff walk and freshman Noah Martinez followed with a homerun to right field to make it 2-1.
The Mount would push across the tying run in the eighth. The leadoff batter was hit by a pitch and moved to second on a sacrifice bunt. Myles Nicholson's single through the left side plated a run to make it 2-2.
Central would push across three runs in the top of the 10th. Devito led off with a single before getting to second on a wild pitch with two outs. Junior Sam Loda delivered a single to right field to make it 3-2. Following a pitching change, senior Dave Matthews would hit a homerun into right center to make it 5-2.

NUMBER TO KNOW

2 - In 32.0 innings across five games this season, CCSU starters have allowed just a pair of walks against Mount St. Mary's. Seniors Brandon Fox and Andrew Braun have not allowed a walk in the first 14.0 innings of this weekend's series.

NOTES

Senior Brandon Fox tossed 7.0 innings and allowed just one run on five hits, but would get a no-decision. He struck out five and walked none.
Fox notched his fifth start of the year where he went 7.0 or more innings.
Freshman Jake Neuman got the win, tossing 2.1 shutout innings. He allowed two hits, while striking out two and surrendering two walks.
Devito went 3-for-4 and scored two runs. It was his 12th multi-hit game of the season.
Matthews had a pair of hits and connected on his fifth homerun.
Martinez hit his team-leading sixth homerun and has a team-high 29 RBIs on the year.
CCSU has won eight straight against Mount St. Mary's dating back to 2019.

UP NEXT

The teams close out the series on Saturday in a 1:00 p.m. contest.