Auburndale, FL... The College of New Jersey baseball team swept the doubleheader against Suffolk University on Friday. They took game one by a final score of 4-1, and game two by a 4-0 margin. With the two wins, the Lions improve to 7-2 on the season and have stretched their winning streak to six games, while Suffolk falls to 3-6 on the year.

In game one, the Lions struck right away with two runs in the top of the first inning. Tommy McCarthy (Allentown, NJ/Allentown) worked a bases loaded walk, then Mike Follet (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) singled in another to put up the crooked number. They tacked on another in the top of the second, as Danny Borup (Plainsoboro, NJ/West Windsor Plainsboro South) drove in the third run with a sacrifice fly. Follet scored on an error in the top of the fourth inning to give the Lions a 4-0 advantage.

Michael Fischer (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville) was brilliant on the mound, as he earned the win and pitched six innings with only one earned run allowed on three hits, and nine strikeouts. Suffolk had a runner on in the bottom of the fifth inning, yet Fischer got the double play ball to squander the opportunity, then picked off the baserunner on first in the bottom of the sixth. Dylan Crowley (Basking Ridge, NJ/Ridge) threw the final inning in relief to seal the win. 

Just like the opening game, the Lions scored in the first inning in game two. Patrick Anderson (Long Valley, NJ/West Morris Central) singled up the middle to jump start the bats. The base hit marked the 100th of Anderson's career. McCarthy followed that up with an RBI double down the right field line to make it a 2-0 ballgame. In the bottom of the fifth inning, Ryan Fischer (Robbinsville, NJ/Robbinsville) drove in two with a base hit to put the Lions up by four. Suffolk had runners on the corners in the top of the fifth, yet the Lions got out of the jam with the old 5-4-2 double play. Austin Lindsay (New Egypt, NJ/New Egypt) took a chopper and got the runner out at second, and Ryan Fischer gunned down the runner going to the plate for the atypical double play.

On the mound making his first start of the season was Michael Walley (Yardley, PA/Notre Dame) who threw a very efficient start. He went six innings and allowed no runs on five hits while striking out three and gaining the win. Suffolk mounted a threat in the top of the seventh, however Matt Curry (Marlton, NJ/Cherokee) shut it down as he recorded the final two outs via strikeout to earn his second save of the year. 

The Lions will wrap up the Florida trip tomorrow, as they take on Knox College beginning at 9:15 am.