New Jersey City University Athletics

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BETHLEHEM, PA (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | No. 21 ranked Moravian College, enjoying one of its finest-ever baseball seasons, showed why it's the NCAA's No. 1 ranked team in the Mid-Atlantic Region, limiting New Jersey City University to 10 hits in two games as the Greyhounds defeated NJCU, 17-0 and 9-2, in a pair of seven-inning non-conference games on April 27.
 
Moravian (29-8) won for the 10^th and 11^th times in 14 games while combining for 30 hits in the two contests. NJCU (10-25) lost its fourth and fifth in a row and for the 13^th time in 14 outings.
 
Freshman third baseman

(Colonia, NJ/JFK-Iselin) was 2-for-3 with one run and one RBI, coming on a game-tying solo home run to left in the top of the third. It was his first homer of the season and fifth of his career, leaving him six hits shy of 100.
 
For Moravian, Connell was 2-for-4 with three RBIs, including two on a sixth-inning single. He finished the day with five RBIs. Savite scored four runs in the two games, finishing the second win with a 3-for-4, 2 RBI effort. Case and catcher Matthew Gutkes were each 2-for-3 with a run and Hanson scored twice.
 
Moravian used five pitchers. Starter Nicolas Ampietro went 2.0 innings, allowing an unearned run and two hits with two K's and a walk before senior righty Thomas Mariano won it in relief (4-3), allowing one run and two hits with two strikeouts in 2.0 innings. Hunter Guard and Chris Soltys each struck out two batters in an inning of relief.
 
Junior NICHOLAS D'ERRICO (Kearny, NJ/Kearny), normally the starting shortstop and a reliever, made his first career start in a moment of need for the short-handed Knights who were playing their sixth game in four days. He pitched well for four innings before taking the loss (0-3), allowing five runs and eight hits with a strikeout and four walks. Giordano and Weinstein also pitched.
 
NJCU initially grabbed a 1-0 lead in the second inning on an RBI single by freshman right fielder JOE COUTINHO (Colonia, NJ/Colonia) before Moravian tied it in the bottom of the inning on a triple by second baseman Alex Longernecker who scored on a single by Case for a 2-1 edge.
 
After Weinstein tied it with his blast, Luke's RBI triple in the bottom of the third put the hosts back in front for good. An RBI single by Savite and subsequent Connell double in the fifth pushed the advantage to 5-2 before the four-run sixth.
 
NJCU heads to Gwynedd Valley, PA on Tuesday, April 29 for a make-up non-conference game versus Gwynedd-Mercy University.