MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME BASEBALL

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Commodore Hendy Field, Buzzards Bay, Mass.

FINAL:              JOHNSON & WALES 10, MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME 2

                                                      123       456       789                   R          H          E         

Johnson & Wales (11-4)                000       000       424       -           10         15         3

Massachusetts Maritime (3-6)       000       020       000       -           2          8          3

BATTERIES

JWU:    Shawn Haugh, Aaron Fenstermacher (7), Tim Ashworth (9) and Ty Karalis, Tyler Newell (7)

MMA:   Joshua Bergeron, Keith Sanchez (7), Chris Gallagher (8), Patrick Derrane (8), Chris Mullin (9) and Ben Maher

WP:      Haugh (3-0)       LP:       Bergeron (0-1)

BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. --  Senior Pete Rosa (Ambler, Pa.) rapped out four hits and drove in four runs as Johnson & Wales rallied from a two-run seventh inning deficit to post a 10-2 non-league college baseball victory over Massachusetts Maritime Thursday afternoon at Commodore Hendy Field.

After being held to just one hit over the first six frames, the visiting Wildcats (11-4) erupted for 14 hits as part of their late innings rally and sandwiched a two-run eighth inning between a pair of four run outbursts in the seventh and ninth.  Sophomore Jack Hocking (Hanover, Mass.) got Johnson & Wales on the board in the seventh with an RBI single, and after a Rosa run-scoring safety evened matters, senior James Reyes (Providence, R.I.) gave the Wildcats the lead for good with a two-out RBI single, as the visitors tacked on another tally on an error in the frame.  Rosa’s two-run single in the eighth accounted for both runs in the inning, and he collected his final RBI of the day in a ninth inning rally that featured run-scoring singles by Reyes and senior Zach Boyes (West Warwick, R.I.) and a sacrifice fly by Hocking that closed out the scoring for the contest.

Junior Alex Pezzuto (Hastings, N.Y.) added three hits as part of a 15-hit attack in the win for Johnson & Wales, which also received two hits each from Reyes, Boyes and sophomore Rob Bocchetti (East Meadow, N.Y.).  Sophomore Shawn Haugh (Tampa, Fla.) improved to 3-0 on the season for the Wildcats on the mound, as he allowed five hits and one earned run over the first six innings with three strikeouts.

The host Buccaneers (3-6) grabbed their 2-0 edge in the fifth when freshman Matt King (Scituate, Mass.) and scored on an RBI single off the bat of senior Tyler Genereux (Duxbury, Mass.), and Massachusetts Maritime added its second tally on an error.  Freshman Joshua Bergeron (Providence, R.I.) was a tough-luck loser on the mound for the hosts in his collegiate debut, as he allowed one hit over the first six innings and retired 13 in a row before Boyes led off the seventh with a double.  Bergeron struck out seven along the way as part of an 84-pitch effort that featured 54 strikes for the Buccaneers, who received two hits each from Genereux, senior Aram Mulhern (Taunton, Mass.) and sophomore Bobby Rosano (North Reading, Mass.) in the setback.

Massachusetts Maritime opens its Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference schedule on Friday afternoon by hosting Framingham State in a league twinbill at Commodore Hendy Field beginning at 1:00 p.m., while Johnson & Wales hosts Wentworth in a non-league outing on Friday afternoon at Pierce Field in East Providence, R.I. beginning at 3:00 p.m.