Stony Brook, NY ? The University of Hartford baseball team, behind four home runs and two complete games on the mound, picked up a pair of wins in a doubleheader against the Stony Brook Seawolves on Saturday afternoon. Chris Greiner and Pete Moraski combined to lead the Hawks hurlers, giving up a total of four runs, while striking out nine batters. The Hawks improve to 12-14 overall and 6-1 in conference play.
Stony Brook (15-14, 4-3 AE) opened the scoring in the first game with a single run in the second inning. Hartford answered that with one run in the top of the third. Adam Grap led off the inning with a single to center field and made it count, scoring on Bill Perry's double down the left field line later in the inning.
The Seawolves put two more runs on the board in the bottom half of the third, with the Hawks unable to answer until the fourth inning on Adam Bowser's two run home run scoring Mike Amendola who led off the inning with a single through the left side. The Hawks added single runs in the sixth and seventh to give Greiner some insurance.
Amendola led off the sixth inning with a double to right center and later scored on a single to left from Grap. In the seventh, Perry opened the hitting with a triple to right center field with one out. He then scored on the next batter, a single to center field from Matt Walker.
Greiner allowed nine hits on the game and three runs, all earned. He also struck out six batters and walked three. Moraski allowed just one run in the second game on seven total hits. He struck out three and walked two.
Hartford opened the scoring in the second game with a single run in the second inning, a solo home run to left center from Amendola. The Hawks added to their lead with a three run third inning. Ben Sobocinski led off the inning with a single up the middle. He would advance to second on a walk to Simon Kudernatsch and then both scored on a three run long ball from Perry.
A single run in the fourth extended the Hawks lead to 5-0. The inning began with back-to-back hits from Grap and Brady Stouffer. Those two hits led to a Kudernatsch RBI. Stony Brook broke up the shutout with a single run in the fifth inning, while the Hawks answered that run with a single run, on a solo home run from Stouffer in the sixth inning.
The Hawks and Seawolves will close out the series with a single nine inning game on Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
