JERSEY CITY, N.J. | The New Jersey City University (NJCU) baseball team ran into a red-hot Montclair State University on Friday afternoon at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex. The Red Hawks toppled the Gothic Knights, 20-3, in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) match up.
NJCU (8-21-1, 1-11) scattered 10 hits and tallied three errors in the field. Dovid Solomon (Alon Shvut, Israel/Yeshiva Torah and Artzeinu) (2-for-2) and Shawn Kish (Fords, N.J./Woodbridge) (2-for-3) led the team with two hits each. Jimmy Nichols (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) recorded a team-high 2 RBI, while Collin Elam (Ewing, N.J./Ewing) added the other. Nich Chirelli (3-4) hurled six innings and allowed six earned runs on 10 hits.
Montclair (25-7, 9-3) plated its second-highest tally of the season, scoring 20 runs in the win. Michael Wansaw Jr. led the Red Hawks with four hits at the dish with 2 RBI. Lukas Egenhauser led the way with 3 RBI on two hits. On the bump, Evan Wood (2-1) struck out one batter and allowed just one earned run en route to his second win of the season.
Montclair plated two runs in the top of the first before NJCU responded with a run in the bottom of the second. An infield single by Elam scored Ray Gelok (Clifton, N.J./Passaic Tech), who reached earlier via a single up the middle. The Red Hawks doubled their tally in the third with two runs to take a 4-1 lead.
The pitchers settled in for the next three innings with neither team plating a run. The floodgates opened in the seventh when Montclair scored six runs, followed by 10 in the next two innings to balloon their lead to 17.
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