Box Score
Ewing, NJ – The Ospreys of Richard Stockton College handed the eighth ranked Lions of The College of New Jersey a 6-3 loss in NJAC baseball on Monday. RSC snapped two of the Lions' impressive streaks with their performance on Monday as they broke TCNJ's 11-game win streak and ended the squad's 28 inning scoreless streak as well. TCNJ drops to 19-3 on the season and 6-1 in the NJAC, while RSC is now 15-7 overall and 4-4 in the league.
RSC scored in their first at bats as junior Chris Discher (Cherry Hill, NJ/Cherry Hill West) opened the game with a lead off single off TCNJ's junior Dan Ramos-Dominko (Hampton, NJ/North Hunterdon). Junior Scott Fisher (Toms River, NJ/Toms River East) added an RBI double and helped the Ospreys to a 2-0 lead after one inning.
In the third inning, senior Joe Sacerdote (Deptford, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) tacked on three runs for RSC with a three run homerun to left center, his fourth of the year.
TCNJ got on the scoreboard in the bottom of the sixth after trailing 6-0. TCNJ's senior first baseman Bill Kropp (Pottstown, PA/Owen J. Roberts) tripled with one out and scored on a wild pitch by RSC's junior Sean Donovan (Hazlet, NJ/Raritan). Sophomore DH Ryan Anzelone (Vernon, NJ/Vernon Township) doubled and was driven in with two outs by senior outfielder Matt Barrett (Pennington, NJ/Hopewell Valley), pulling the Lions within four runs, down 6-2.
TCNJ added a run in the bottom of the seventh when junior Adam Tussey (Brooklawn, NJ/Gloucester) led off with a single and advanced on a misplayed ball in the outfield. He scored on a single by Jeff Toth (Parlin, NJ/Sayreville).
TCNJ threatened several times and by game's end had left nine men on base and racked up 13 hits.
Ramos-Dominko worked 7.1 innings with six earned runs off 10 hits, while walking just one with six strikeouts and drops to 2-1. He got support on the mound from junior reliever Eric Gertie (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) who came in the game in the top of the eighth with one out and after a walk, fanned the next two batters he faced. Gertie would work 1.2 innings with one hit and four strikeouts.
RSC's Donovan worked six innings with three earned runs and 13 hits, with a wild pitch in collecting the win and is 1-1 on the year. He got some middle relief from senior Amit Shah (Maple Shade, NJ/Maple Shade) who worked an inning with no hits or runs. Right handed sophomore John O'Hara (Clayton, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) came in the game in the bottom of the eighth and worked the ninth proceeded to hit the first two batters he faced in the top of the ninth putting two base runners on with no outs. The Ospreys turned a double play putting Barrett at third and Toth at the plate for the Lions and he grounded out to the short stop to end the game and O'Hara picked up the save, his third of the year.
Please note that TCNJ's home game scheduled for Tuesday, April 8 against Neumann College has been cancelled for Tuesday. There is no new date for the contest.
