Box Score
TEANECK, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped a non-conference tilt to Albany 11-2 at the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex on Tuesday afternoon.
The Knights (8-21) were led by senior right fielder
Jason Fatzinger's 3-for-4 performance, while sophomore left fielder
Mike Veit went 2-for-5 with an RBI in the loss. Freshman right fielder
Brad Levinson entered the game in the sixth inning and netted the Knights' other RBI in a 1-for-2 effort.
Connor Powers and Marc Wagenstein spearheaded a 20-hit attack by the Great Danes (15-15) with a pair of three-hit games.
After working around a two-out double in the first inning, FDU starter
Austin Crebs permitted a run on three hits in the second and three more runs in the third. The third-inning scoring began with a solo blast by Powers and concluded with a single and a sacrifice fly.
With freshman
Chris Quijano on in relief of Crebs, Albany struck again for two more in the fourth thanks to three singles -- the final one -- a two-run poke by catcher Matt Codispoti, which made it a 6-0 game.
The Great Danes broke the contest open in the sixth with five runs on five hits off of freshman
Peter Theodorellis. Four of the five tallies against the FDU right-hander were unearned. Wagenstein provided the key blow with a two-run single to right field.
Albany starter J.T. Genovese kept the Knights in check with three scoreless frames to begin the game and then was relieved by Angelo Spedafino, who earned the victory with two more scoreless innings of work.
The Knights struck for their first run of the contest in the home seventh. Fatzinger led off and clubbed a double into the left-center field gap before shortstop
Oliver Tavares followed with an infield single.
Levinson was next and dumped an RBI single into left field but Albany reliever Connor Takacs escaped the jam by retiring the next three Knights in order.
The Knights would conclude the scoring in the ninth. Theodorellis – now in the designated hitter spot – led off with a walk and then third baseman
Corbin Dunnuck followed with his first career hit, a single through the left side of the infield.
With one away,
Brandon Seltzer hit a towering shot to right center field, which caromed off of the fence but both runners held up and Seltzer was limited to a long single.
Veit would knock in Theodorellis with the game's final run via a fielder's choice before Albany relief man Dan Yankowski induced a game-ending pop-up.
The Knights now set out on a nine-game road trip beginning with this weekend's series at Mount St. Mary's. The four-game slate against the Mountaineers kicks off this Friday, April 20 at 3:00 p.m.
