New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score BOX SCORE (Game 1)

LEXINGTON, VA (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University allowed just six hits over nine innings, but couldn't score in the final two frames with a man on second base, after tying the game in the top of the seventh as host Washington & Lee University edged NJCU, 5-4, in game one of a non-conference doubleheader played on February 16.
 
NJCU (0-2) dropped its second consecutive one-run game to open the 2013 campaign in southwestern Virginia. W&L improved to 3-0 in what is believed to be the first meeting between the schools in baseball. It was the earliest calendar date NJCU has played a doubleheader in the 66-year history of the program. The earliest previous twinbill was a February 21, 2009 doubleheader at Farmingdale State College.
 
Senior center fielder MICHAEL PATTERSON (Piscataway, NJ/Piscataway) was 2-for-4 with one run while increasing his average to .571 after two games.
 
Junior left fielder ANDREW RIVERA (Edison, NJ/Edison) was 2-for-5 with a double and RBI while sophomore transfer third baseman NICHOLAS D'ERRICO (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) scored twice. Sophomore first baseman ALEX WEINSTEIN (Colonia, NJ/JFK-Iselin) was 1-for-3 with an RBI triple and a run scored.
 
Freshman starting right-hander TOMMY TRELA (Colonia, NJ/Colonia) made his NCAA debut and only allowed five runs and five hits in 6.2 innings, fanning four versus three walks.
 
Freshman righty BRANDON CHARLES (Piscataway, NJ/Piscataway) allowed one hit in the seventh inning before senior left-hander PEDRO GARCIA (North Bergen, NJ/Saint Joseph of the Palisades) threw the final 1.1 innings of the game, striking out four of the five batters he faced against one walk.
 
For the Generals, senior first baseman Alex Maragos (Chicago, IL) was 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a triple while senior catcher Alex Mait (Chesterfield, VA) was 2-for-3 with two RBIs and one run. Senior right fielder Will Salley (Augusta, GA) was 1-for-3 with two runs.
 
Senior righty Ian Shaw (Atlanta, GA) threw the first 5.0 innings but received a no decision, allowing three runs (two earned) against four hits with one strikeout and one walk. Sophomore righty Cory Smith (Roanoke, VA) earned the win in 2.2 innings of relief (1-0), allowing one run and two hits with four strikeouts and one walk.
 
Senior lefty Eric Wisotsky (West Windsor, NJ/Plainsboro North), one of just two New Jersey student-athletes on the Generals' 30-man roster, collected his second save, facing five batters in one and a third innings, allowing one hit with a strikeout.
 
NJCU had an early 2-0 lead heading to the bottom of the third. In the second inning, sophomore shortstop MICHAEL MARTUCCI (Bayonne, NJ/Saint Peter's Prep) was hit by a pitch and scored on a triple to right center by Weinstein. In the third, D'Errico reached on the only error of the game and was knocked in by senior second baseman PETE SENYSZYN (Carteret, NJ/Carteret) with an RBI single to center. NJCU left three men on base in the inning.
 
W&L knocked in four runs in the bottom of the third to claim a 4-2 advantage. Mait had an RBI single to get the Generals on the board before Maragos produced a bases-clearing three-run triple to center for the final three runs.
 
NJCU drew within 4-3 in the fourth on an RBI single by Patterson, plating Weinstein who was hit by a pitch, and moved to third on a walk and sacrifice.
 
NJCU kept the Generals off the board in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings, and tied the game in the top of the seventh when D'Errico drew a leadoff walk and scored on a two-out double to right center by Rivera.
 
But W&L responded in the bottom of the seventh. After two quick outs were recorded, Salley walked, moved to second on a hit batter and scored on a go-ahead RBI single to left by Mait. Garcia entered in relief and walked the first batter before inducing a strikeout to strand the bases loaded.
 
In the eighth, freshman catcher ANDREW NIECH (Avenel, NJ/Colonia) doubled with one out but NJCU couldn't plate him as Weinstein struck out and Wisotsky got sophomore right fielder MATTHEW WAGNER (Colonia, NJ/Colonia) to ground out.
 
Garcia struck out the side swinging, in the bottom of the eighth. In the ninth, Patterson singled to left center with one out and stole second with two outs before Wisotsky caught Rivera looking at strike three to end the game.