Chiusano 21B
5
Montclair State MSUBB 15-5, 7-4 NJAC
7
Winner Kean KEAN 12-8, 7-4 NJAC
Montclair State MSUBB
15-5, 7-4 NJAC
5
Final
7
Kean KEAN
12-8, 7-4 NJAC
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Montclair State MSUBB 1 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 5 10 2
Kean KEAN 2 0 0 0 3 1 0 1 X 7 12 0

W: Chiusano, Daniel (1-2) L: Nicholas Sefick (0-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Pushes Past MSU, 7-5

Union, N.J. (4/22/21) – The Kean University baseball team scored the final five runs of the game as the Cougars snapped Montclair State's five-game winning streak and captured the first game of the home-and-home series with a 7-5 victory on Thursday afternoon.

Daniel Chiusano (1-2) tossed five scoreless innings in relief as the Cougars (12-8) erased a 5-2 deficit and knocked off the Red Hawks (15-5) for the seventh time in the last eight meetings.

Michael Murphy homered and drove in three runs for MSU.

Montclair led 5-2 in the bottom of the fifth when the Cougars struck for three runs, all with two outs. Timothy Huxen was hit by a pitch putting runners at first and second. Christian Pellone drilled a two-run double to left-center scoring both, closing the deficit to one. Following a walk to Phil Marcantonio, Michael Lapczynski singled through the right side tying the contest at 5-5.

Kean took the lead the following inning as catcher Josh Jackson walked, went to second on a sacrifice, and scored as Frank LoGiudice's grounder was thrown away. The Cougars added an insurance run in the eighth as Jackson scored on an RBI single by Conner DeForge.

In between the scoring, Chiusano came out of the bullpen and shut down the Red Hawks over the final five innings. He entered with runners and first and second, no one out, and Kean trailing 4-2. Chiusano allowed an RBI single to Murphy but got a foul pop-up and double play to escape any further damage. The left-hander retired 10 of the next 12 before giving up a one-out base hit to Joe Norton in the ninth but induced a game-ending double play to end the game.

Miles Feaster gave the Red Hawks a 1-0 lead in the first with an RBI single, but the Cougars answered in their half as Marcantonio and Lapczynski each drove in a run for a 2-1 Kean lead. Murphy's two-run shot in the fourth put Montclair back in front and the Red Hawks led 4-2 after a Hayden Reyes RBI single in the inning.

Both teams are 7-4 in conference play and will face off again on Friday, April 23 at 3:30 pm as the venue shifts to Yogi Berra Stadium.

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