Union, N.J. (3/22/25) – The Kean University baseball team split with United States Merchant Marine Academy in non-conference action on Saturday.
Game One – Kean 8, USMMA 5
HOW IT HAPPENED:
Kean (16-3) scratched across single runs in the second and fifth to take a 2-0 lead. USMMA scored a run of their own in the top of the sixth before the Cougars opened the game up with six in the sixth.
Highlighting the offense was a three-run blast from CJ Tomalavage, his fifth homer of the season.
The Mariners rallied for four runs in the ninth inning, but Kean was able to work out of the jam.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
Jason Gilman improved to 6-0 with an eight-inning outing. He fanned 10 and walked three while allowing just three hits and one run.
Offensively Brett Hilsheimer was 3-for-3 with two runs scored and an RBI while Kyle Adorno, Justin Teixeira and Tomalavage all had two hits each.
Game Two – USMMA 8, Kean 6
HOW IT HAPPENED:
The Mariners and Cougars were in a see-saw affair in the nightcap.
Kean led 5-1 after three innings. Hilsheimer drove in two with a double in the third. USMMA pulled within one in their half of the fourth with a bases-clearing double from Luke Kruer.
Dan Reistle added a sac fly in the fifth to extend Kean's lead to 6-4.
The Mariners then took the lead, a lead they would not relinquish, in the sixth as Tommy Chiapetti and Landon Troutt each recorded two RBI singles.
INSIDE THE NUMBERS:
Reistle was 3-for-4 with two RBI and a triple.
UP NEXT:
Kean travels to reigning national champion Misericordia University on Tuesday.
