Baseball Pulls Away for 11-2 Win Over Le Moyne

The Central Connecticut baseball team took an 11-2 win over Le Moyne on Saturday in Northeast Conference action at CCSU Baseball Field. The Blue Devils turned in a well-rounded team win, scoring 11 runs on 12 hits, getting a strong outing from Vincent Spizzoucco and Wyatt Cameron closed it out with his second save of the season.

The series concludes on Sunday with a 1:00 p.m. first pitch.

GAME INFORMATION | BOX SCORE

Score:  CCSU 11, LE MOYNE 2
Pitching Record: W: Spizzoucco (2-0) | L: Parker (2-3) | Save:  Cameron (2)
Records: CCSU (13-20, 12-11 NEC), LEM (15-22, 9-13 NEC)
Location: CCSU Baseball Field | New Britain, CT

KEY MOMENTS

• The Blue Devils would give Spizzoucco an early cushion, scoring runs in the third and fifth innings to take a 2-0 lead. In the bottom of the third, Aidan Redahan led off with a single. A single by Brady Short and a ground out would put runners in scoring position for Dan Hussey who singled up the middle to plate the first run. In the fifth, Kyle Gordon was hit by a pitch to lead off and moved to third after a Redahan single and a groundout. He scored on a RBI-groundout by Gianno Merlonghi.
• Spizzoucco allowed just three hits in the first five innings, but he would get into a jam in the fifth when Le Moyne got runners on second and third with one out. He would get out of trouble by notching a strikeout and a groundout to end the threat.
• The only blemish on Spizzoucco's outing came to lead off the sixth inning when Nick Nevins led off with a homerun to centerfield to make it 2-1.
• CCSU got the run back in the bottom of the sixth on a sac fly by Hunter Pasqualini before padding its lead with three more runs in the seventh. Joe Rios would drive in two runs with a bases-loaded single to make it 5-1. An error on a failed pick off allowed Jeff Nicol to add a run.
• After Le Moyne got a run in the top of the eighth, Central would break the game open with a five-run bottom of the inning. Brady Short would double in two runs to open the scoring and Nicol would ad a two-run single with one out. Michael Torniero drove in a run on a groundout to make it 11-2.

NOTES

• CCSU and Le Moyne are meeting for the first time as Division I opponents.
• The Blue Devils have won seven of their last eight NEC games after losing eight of the previous nine.
• Spizzoucco tossed 6.0 innings and allowed just one run on four hits. He struck out eight.
• Short went 4-for-5 with two runs and two RBIs. He is 8-for-9 in the first two games of the series.
• Cameron tossed 2.0 shutout innings. He did not allow a hit, while striking out four.
• Redahan was 3-for-3 at the plate.
• Nicol and Rios each drove in two RBIs.

UP NEXT

The series concludes on Sunday with a 1:00 p.m. first pitch.

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