Box Score TEANECK, N.J. -- The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped the opener of its four-game Northeast Conference set with Bryant, 6-0, on Friday at the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex. With the victory, the Bulldogs improve to 34-12 (14-3 NEC) on the season, while the Knights fall to 13-27 (4-13 NEC) overall.
FDU pitching only yielded four hits on the day but were doomed by 11 walks. Junior
Ryan MacDonald (Bethpage, N.Y./Island Trees) (1-2) took the loss after tossing the first 4+ innings. The southpaw allowed three earned runs on two hits, walked four and struck out two. Sophomore
Nick Cuono (Hawthorne, N.J./Montvale Saint Joseph ) allowed the other three runs – two earned – on one hit while walking one in 1.0 inning on the bump. Juniors
John Chalupa (Monroe, N.Y./Monroe-Woodbury) (2.0 innings),
Anthony Calise (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) (1.0 inning),
Yonah Perline (Dix Hills, N.Y./St. Dominic) (1.0 inning) and Eric Sndyer (1.0 inning) combined to throw five scoreless innings out of the bullpen.
Bryant scored a run in the top of the first without getting a hit to take a 1-0 lead. Cole Fabio led off the game with a walk, advanced to second on a wild pitch, moved to third on a balk and scored on Carl Anderson's RBI sacrifice fly.
The visitors would then score five times in the top of the fourth to extend their lead to 6-0. The Bulldogs loaded the bases with nobody out, scored their first three runs on a walk, sacrifice fly and a throwing error, before Bingel hit a two-out, two-run homer to cap the scoring.
The Knights placed runners in scoring position in the bottom of the first, second and sixth but came up empty. FDU managed only five hits – two from junior
Riley Moonan (Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero North) - off Bryant starter Connor McAvoy, who picked up the victory after going 7.0 innings. The Bulldogs' ace walked two and struck out 10.
The two sides will play a pair of seven-inning contests on Saturday at 1 p.m. Baseball alumni are invited to the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex at 12 p.m. for Alumni Day festivities, which will include a free lunch.
