20092009 NECNECNEC BASEBALLBASEBALLBASEBALL NN EWSEWS && NN OTESOTES 399 Campus Drive, First Floor, Somerset, NJ 08873 Contact: Ralph Ventre, Asst. Dir. Comm. Phone: 732-469-0440/Fax: 732-469-0744 E-Mail: [email protected] Central Connecticut State • Fairleigh Dickinson • Long Island • Monmouth • Mount St. Mary’s Quinnipiac • Robert Morris • Sacred Heart • St. Francis (NY) • St. Francis (PA) • Wagner NEC Baseball Northeast Conference Baseball Facts & Figures (Week 5 - March 30, 2009)

Recent Results School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. Streak Home Away Neutral Monday, March 23 CCSU 11, #25 Illinois 9 1. Central Conn. St. 0-0 .000 8-6 .571 W1 1-1 2-4 5-1 Wagner 0-0 .000 8-6 .571 W2 2-0 5-5 1-1 Tuesday, March 24 #25 Illinois 6, CCSU 0 Monmouth 0-0 .000 10-10 .500 W3 3-3 5-7 2-0 Temple 8, MONMOUTH 7 Mount St. Mary's 0-0 .000 8-9 .471 W4 5-3 2-0 1-6 Army 16, QUINNIPIAC 3 Sacred Heart 0-0 .000 8-12 .400 W1 2-5 2-3 4-4 Fairfield 3, SACRED HEART 2 MOUNT 7, UMBC 3 Quinnipiac 0-0 .000 6-12 .333 W3 3-1 1-10 2-1 Fairleigh Dickinson 0-0 .000 4-13 .235 L3 3-4 1-9 0-0 Wednesday, March 25 Long Island 0-0 .000 3-16 .158 L7 0-4 1-8 2-4 MOUNT 15, UMES 5 MOUNT 6, UMES 3 WAGNER 5, Lafayette 3 Seton Hall 7, MONMOUTH 1 Akadema/NEC Co-Player of the Week FDU 10, Saint Peter’s 7 Brian Martutartus, Wagner Army 2, LIU 0 So., SS, R/R, 5-10, 150 lbs., Carlsbad, CA / La Costa Canyon Friday, March 27 Martutartus drove in six of Wagner’s 10 runs on the week, which saw the Seahawks capture victories over Bryant 3, LIU 1 Bryant 15, LIU 7 Lafayette and Maine. The sophomore shortstop .500 (3-for-6) and slugged 1.167 while delivering big FDU 2, Albany 0 hits during a small sample of work. Martutartus provided the difference in the Seahawks’ 5-4 victory over Albany 6, FDU 4 Maine when he plated two runs by smashing a two- to left field. Two days earlier, Martutartus Hartford 9, CCSU 8 went deep for the first time this season. His three- bomb over the left-field fence staked Wagner to a WAGNER 5, Maine 4 MONMOUTH 13, NJIT 0 3-1 lead in an eventual 5-3 win over the Leopards. QUINNIPIAC 4, Binghamton 1 Akadema/NEC Co-Player of the Week Vermont 9, SACRED HEART 2 Nick Pulsonetti, Monmouth Saturday, March 28 So., OF, R/R, 6-1, 210 lbs., Old Tappan, NJ/Northern Valley Regional Bryant 3, LIU 2 Pulsonetti put all of his offensive skills on display for Monmouth last week. Starting all five of the Hawks’ Bryant 7, LIU 3 Albany 9, FDU 6 games, the sophomore outfielder batted .444 (8-for-18), slugged .889, compiled a .565 on-base per- Albany 4, FDU 2 centage, drove in nine runs, and stole four bases. Pulsonetti used a pair of doubles to drive in three runs Hartford 8, SACRED HEART 4 (8 inn.) during an 8-7 loss to Temple before victimizing New Jersey Tech for six hits and six RBI in a three-game SACRED HEART 7, Hartford 3 (9 inn.) series sweep. The right-handed hitter homered in each of the last two games against NJIT. Pulsonetti was MONMOUTH 9, NJIT 0 QUINNIPIAC 4, Vermont 2 held hitless in a mid-week loss to Seton Hall, but walked once and registered two steals. QUINNIPIAC 5, Vermont 0 Akadema/NEC of the Week Binghamton 20, CCSU 0 CCSU 4, Binghamton 3 John Meadus, Fairleigh Dickinson Sr., LHP, 6-4, 220 lbs., Mount Holly, NJ/Holy Cross Sunday, March 29 Underlined Team is Only a third-inning infield prevented Meadus from logging the NEC’s first no-hitter this season. MONMOUTH 6, NJIT 3 home. No underline Receiving the starting nod in FDU’s series against Albany, Meadus twirled a one-hit masterpiece in indicates neutral site. helping the Knights to a 2-0 victory. The senior southpaw showed his top-of-the-rotation potential by striking out eight Great Danes over 7.0 innings. Two of Albany’s four baserunners came in the first inning when Meadus issued back-to-back one-out walks. The 6-foot-4 left used his pick-off move and a to get out of trouble and allowed hardly anything else the rest of the way. After Albany’s lone hit with two outs in the third inning, Meadus retired the next 12 hitters in order. Akadema/NEC Rookie of the Week Josh Winter, Mount St. Mary’s Fr., 1B, L/L, 6-4, 205 lbs., Timonium, MD/Boys' Latin Winter went 5-for-9 (.556) at the plate, posted a .600 on-base percentage, and slugged 1.000 to lead the Mount during a perfect three-win week. The freshman first baseman hit safely in each of his team’s three victories and struck out only once. He produced a run-scoring in his only at-bat of a 7-3 victory over UMBC. Winter then batted .500 (4-for-8), including another RBI triple, in a double-header sweep of AkademaPro.com Maryland-Eastern Shore. He recorded 19 put outs and owned a 1.000 at first base. NEC Baseball Notes NEC Baseball Facts & Figures NEC Strikeout Leader Puts Pedal to the Gloor Quinnipiac senior southpaw Chris Gloor (Bay Shore, NY/Bay Shore) has been throwing 2009 Northeast Conference Preseason Coaches Poll gas his last two outings and opposing batters are having trouble catching up. Gloor has fanned 23 batters in his last 17.0 innings, pitching to a 2.12 earned- during that 1. Monmouth (5) 5. Quinnipiac span. He most recently struck out 10 hitters over 8.0 innings in a 4-1 victory over 2. Central Connecticut State (2) 6. Long Island Binghamton. That effort followed his 13-K day in a complete-game win over Holy Cross (Mar. 3. Wagner (1) 7. Sacred Heart 21). His 38 in 31.1 innings lead all NEC . 4. Mount St. Mary’s 8. Fairleigh Dickinson Staten Island Machine Senior Andrew Huebner (Hatfield, PA/North Penn) saved back-to-back victories last week to become the Wagner’s all-time leader. The veteran right-hander pitched a one- 2008 Northeast Conference Final Standings two-three ninth inning to nail down a 5-3 win over Lafayette before setting the Seahawks’ save record in his very next outing against Maine. Huebner, who began the season one save behind Chris Priseau (Class of 2000), worked around a lead-off double to keep the Black Bears off School NEC Pct. Overall Pct. the board in the ninth inning of a 5-4 victory. The save was the 14th of Huebner’s collegiate career. 1. Monmouth* 20-5 .800 37-16 .698 2. Central Conn. St.* 18-9 .667 25-24 .510 Schillaci-ng the Illini 3. Wagner* 17-11 .607 27-28 .491 Senior outfield Jay Schillaci (McKeesport, PA/McKeesport Area) went 5-for-13 with 4. Mount St. Mary's* 13-11 .542 21-33 .389 seven RBI in leading Central Connecticut State to a series victory over nationally-ranked 5. Fairleigh Dickinson 10-16 .385 15-38 .283 Illinois. Schillaci’s double last Sunday (Mar. 22) plated CCSU’s first two runs in a 6-4 series- 6. Sacred Heart 10-18 .357 12-41 .226 opening victory over the Illini, who were ranked 19th by Collegiate Baseball at the time. The next day the right-handed hitting outfielder pounded out three hits and drove in five runs to 7. Quinnipiac 9-19 .321 16-36 .308 help the Blue Devils outlast No. 25 Illinois, 11-9, in game two and clinch the series win. CCSU 8. Long Island 7-15 .318 16-31 .340 suffered a 6-0 shutout defeat in the finale, but Schillaci still found his way on base when he singled to lead off the sixth inning.

Ineson Gives Nothing to Nutmeg Rivals NEC Past Champions Sacred Heart rookie reliever James Ineson (Milford, CT/Jonathan Law) made his first Regular Season Tournament two collegiate appearance against a pair of Nutmeg State rivals. The freshman right-hander 2008 Monmouth 2008 Mount St. Mary’s debuted against cross-town rival Fairfield, taking the ball with his team down 3-0. Ineson shut down the Stags over 4.0 innings of no-hit baseball, but SHU could not manage more than 2007 Quinnipiac/Mount St. Mary’s 2007 Monmouth two runs in its comeback bid. Ineson received more work, this time as part of a winning 2006 CCSU 2006 Sacred Heart effort, when he tossed a scoreless ninth inning to close out a 7-3 victory over Hartford. 2005 Quinnipiac 2005 Quinnipiac Producing a line that would make any pitching coach smile, Ineson recorded 14 of 15 outs by 2004 CCSU 2004 CCSU way of strikeout or groundout. 2003 CCSU 2003 CCSU 2002 Monmouth 2002 CCSU Team-by-Team Notes 2001 CCSU/St. Francis (NY) (N) Central Connecticut State (8-6, 0-0 NEC) UMBC/Monmouth (S) 2001 UMBC The Blue Devils went 2-3 last week, the wins coming against #25 Illinois (Mar. 23) and in the 2000 Long Island (N)/UMBC (S) 2000 Wagner second game vs. Binghamton (Mar. 28). … A scheduled game vs. Vermont was canceled on 1999 FDU/CCSU (N) 1999 Monmouth Sunday (Mar. 29) due to weather conditions. Also, a scheduled road game vs. Rhode Island on Tuesday (Mar. 31) has been moved to CCSU's Beehive Field. … Senior Casey Walko Monmouth (S) (Freehold, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) had a productive week for the Blue Devils at the plate. 1998 St. Francis (NY)/Monmouth 1998 Monmouth He went 10-for-18, including a double and triple, with three runs scored. His two extra-base 1997 Marist 1997 Marist hits came in the win over Binghamton on Saturday. He added a single in the game before 1996 Monmouth/Rider 1996 Rider coming to the plate in the seventh inning needing only a to complete to cycle. The 1995 Rider 1995 Rider Bearcats promptly killed the suspense by intentionally walking Walko. He posted an on-base 1994 Rider/FDU 1994 Rider percentage of .619 for the week and reached base 13 times in the five games. … Junior 1993 FDU 1993 St. Francis (NY) outfielder Richie Tri (Everett, WA/Barnstable) went 5-for-14 with four runs scored and four 1992 St. Francis (NY) RBI. He tied the game at 3-3 with a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning of an 1991 Monmouth eventual 4-3 win over Binghamton. It was his team-best second home run of the season. … 1990 Long Island Senior outfielder Jay Schillaci (McKeesport, PA/McKeesport Area) went 6-for-20 with two doubles, a home run, and eight RBI on the week. … The three starting outfielders, Tri, 1989 Monmouth Schillaci and Walko, went a combined 21-for-52 (.404) with three home runs, six extra-base 1988 Fairleigh Dickinson hits and 12 RBI. They also scored eight runs. … Junior pitcher Chris Chagnon (Windsor, CT/ 1987 Fairleigh Dickinson Stony Brook) continued to perform well on the mound for the Blue Devils. In the win over Binghamton on Saturday he pitched 2.2 innings and retired all eight batters that he faced on pace to the victory. He entered the game trailing 3-1 and inherited a man on third base with one out situation in the fourth inning. He retired eight straight to earn the win. 2009 NEC Baseball Fairleigh Dickinson (4-13, 0-0 NEC) Fairleigh Dickinson won a mid-week contest with Garden State rival Saint Peter's and won its Championships series opener against Albany, but finished the week on a slide. FDU saw the Great Danes at New Britain Stadium, New Britain, CT come back to take the final three contests of the four-game series. … Fairleigh Dickinson bested Saint Peter's on the strength of a four-run first frame and a five-run fifth. Sophomore (Home of The Rock Cats Twins’ Double A Affiliate) Joe Martino (Westbury, NY/WT Clarke) went yard twice and drove in a career-high five runs to pace FDU's offense. … Against Albany on Friday (Mar. 27), FDU May 21-23, 2009 earned a 2-0 victory in the first contest, but fell, 6-4, in the nightcap. Senior southpaw John Four team, double-elimination tournament Meadus (Mt. Holly, NJ/ Holy Cross) was responsible for the victory as he hurled a one-hit George Mason (Mar. 31) before hosting Quinnipiac (Apr. 3-5) for a four-game shutout. … The Knights dropped both halves of their Saturday doubleheader (Mar. 28) with the set to open NEC play next weekend. Great Danes. The Knights fell, 9-6, and before a 4-2 loss in the finale put their record at 4-13 on the season. Quinnipiac (6-12, 0-0 NEC) Quinnipiac, winners of three straight, received victories from its top three Long Island (3-16, 0-0 NEC) starters, Chris Gloor (Bay Shore, NY/Bay Shore), Joe Duffy (Commack, The Blackbirds ran into some bad luck this week, dropping all five of their games. Returning NY/Commack), and Andy Mayer (Trumbull, CT/Trumbull). … Gloor held from a six-game Florida trip that continued the high-scoring ways of the early portion of the Binghamton (Mar. 27) to one run on seven hits over eight innings while striking season, Long Island finally got some quality pitching efforts. Unfortunately, the bats picked a out 10, a stark contrast to the 0-3 record the lefty compiled to start his senior terrible time to go cold. … In a non-conference contest against Army (Mar. 25), freshman season. In his last two starts, including Friday's win against Binghamton, Gloor Blake Crouch (River Edge, NJ/River Dell) scattered three hits over four scoreless innings in is 2-0 with a 2.12 ERA after totaling 23 strikeouts on 13 hits over 17.0 innings his first collegiate start. Three Blackbird pitchers combined to limit the Black Knights to five pitched. For the season, Gloor is 2-3 with a 5.74 ERA and a team-best 38 hits and one in a 2-0 loss. … Long Island then made its first appearance at LIU Field, strikeouts in 31.1 . … Duffy spun a shutout of hosting Bryant in a four-game series (Mar. 27-28) that consisted of a pair of doubleheaders due Vermont in the second half of a twinbill (Mar. 28). Duffy held the Catamounts to the threat of rain. … Junior James Jones (Brooklyn, NY/Telecommunications HS) took to three hits over 7.0 innings while striking out seven to improve to 1-3 on the the hill in game one against Bryant with a bevy of scouts looking on. The lefthander cruised season. … Mayer picked up the victory in the first game of Quinnipiac's through the first six frames of the seven-inning contest and was staked a 1-0 lead on a second- doubleheader against Vermont, holding the Catamounts to two runs on five hits inning home run by first baseman Anthony Amatucci (Toms River, NJ/TR South). Jones while striking out five over six innings pitched. … Senior reliever Michael retired the first two batters in the seventh before Pat McKenna homered on a 1-2 pitch and his Oskandy (Bethel, CT/Bethel) was literally untouchable in two games, picking Bulldog teammates followed with three hits to send LIU to a 3-1 loss. … In the second game, up a pair of saves in Quinnipiac's wins against Binghamton on Friday and the freshman Julian Diaz (North Bergen, NJ/North Bergen) got off to a rough start, allowing six Bobcats' first game against Vermont on Saturday. Oskandy pitched two perfect straight singles and a three-run double to put Bryant ahead 7-0. The Bulldogs went on to win 15- innings in two days, facing the minimum six batters, while striking out four. For 7. … In Saturday's first game, the only nine-inning contest of the season, the baseball gods the year, Oskandy is 1-2 with two saves and a team-best 3.55 ERA with 17 frowned upon the Blackbirds once again. In a repeat of the series' opening game, Long Island strikeouts in 25 1/3 innings pitched. took a lead on a home run, this time a two-run shot from centerfielder Frank DiMasi (Staten Island, NY/Moore Catholic). Senior Couri Benz (Park Ridge, IL/Oakton CC) threw eight Sacred Heart (8-12, 0-0 NEC) solid innings, allowing only a run, before running into trouble in the ninth when he surrendered The Pioneers had lost five straight games before beating Hartford 7-3 in the a two-run homer for the 3-2 loss. … In game four, Bryant scored three runs in the first en route second game of a doubleheader on Saturday (Mar. 28). ... SHU led the opening to a 7-2 win for a series sweep. … Long Island has now dropped seven straight and is 3-16 on half of the twinbill, 4-2, with two outs in the seventh inning before an the season. allowed the tying runs to score. The Pioneers would lose the game in the eighth frame on a one-out . ... Both scheduled seven-inning games of the Monmouth (10-10, 0-0 NEC) twinbill against the Hawks went extra innings. The first went eight in a Pioneer Monmouth went 3-2 last week, with four of the games coming on the road, to pull even at .500 loss, while the second took nine innings before the Pioneers claimed the win. ... (10-10). … Head coach Dean Ehehalt, who earned his 400th career win at Monmouth in a 9- Senior Tyler Santos (Johnson City, NY/Johnson City) drove home the even- 1 victory over UMass (Mar. 15), now stands at 406-372-2 in his 16th season at Monmouth. In his tual winning run in teh 7-3 win over the Hawks with his ninth-inning single. 18th year as a head coach, Ehehalt's all-time record is 427-410-2. … Sophomore Nick Pulsonetti Junior Jeff Heppner (Aqubogue, NY/Riverhead) hit a three-run blast in the (Old Tappan, NJ/Northern Valley), who batted .444 on the week, connected on two home inning to provide insurance. ... Senior Phil Tantillo (Blue Point, NY/St. John runs this week, pushing his career total to 14. … Ryan Terry (Levittown, PA/Truman) and the Baptist) had five hits in the doubleheader, including his first homer of the Chris Collazo (Wall, NJ/Wall) tied for the team-lead with nine hits apiece this week, as each season, a solo shot in the second game that tied the score at 1-1. ... Three-time batted over .400. Terry added six RBI and six runs scored, while his double-play partner added NEC Player of the Week Jeff Hanson (Woodstock, NY/Onteora) did not play five RBI and three doubles. … Senior Bobby Dombrowski (Denville, NJ/Seton Hall Prep) at all last week and has now missed five straight contests with an injury....The connected on his first home run of the season, a grand slam at NJIT, the first grand slam of his Pioneers have now hit 20 homers this season, after hitting just 21 all of last year. career. Coupled with Ryan Terry's two-run shot and a pair of Pulsonetti homers, Monmouth connected on four home runs this week. … Of the Hawks' 52 hits, 19 were for extra-bases, Wagner (8-6, 0-0 NEC) including 11 doubles and four triples. … The Hawks, who have collected a total of 208 hits, are Wagner won both games on the week, defeating Lafayette (Mar. 25), 5-3, in the averaging 10.4 hits per game so far this season. … Junior Nick Vallillo (Old Tappan, NJ/ Seahawks' home opener before handing Maine (Mar. 27) a 5-4 setback. … Northern Valley) mirrored Brett Brach's (Freehold, NJ/Freehold Twp.) success this week, Senior Andrew Huebner (Hatfield, PA/North Penn) saved both games, set- tossing 7.0 shutout innings at NJIT in a 9-0 victory, improving his record to 3-0 on the year. ting a school-record in the process with his 13th and 14th career stops, moving Vallillo allowed just two singles and struck out four in the win. A day earlier, Brach tossed 7.0 past Chris Pariseau, who recorded 13 from 1997-2000. Huebner hurled a innings of shutout ball and struck out nine batters in a 13-0 victory over NJIT. … Sophomore scoreless inning or relief against both the Leopards and the Black Bears for his Anthony Lawrence (Fairless Hills, PA/Pennsbury) collected his first career hit in the first two saves of the year. … Against Lafayette, Wagner broke a 3-3 tie on Hawks' 13-0 win at NJIT on Friday. In addition, freshman Tom Augustyniak (Whitehouse freshman Tommy Higgins' (Port Monmouth, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) pinch- Station, NJ/Immaculata) registered a two-run single through the right side, the first hit and hit two-run double with two outs in the sixth inning. He is now 3-for-4 as a pinch RBI of his career. … In just seven at-bats over three starts, freshman Jamie Rosenkranz hitter on the year as the Seahawks are hitting .393 as a team in pinch-hitting (Oakhurst, NJ/Ocean) batted .571, going 4-for-7 with a double and a triple. … After the three situations. … Sophomore Brian Martutartus (Carlsbad, CA / La Costa Can- game sweep of NJIT, Monmouth is now 6-0 against the Highlanders over the last two years, yon) has hit the first home run at Richmond County Bank Ballpark in each of the outscoring NJIT 72-15. … Monmouth went 14-for-15 in attempts on the week. last two seasons as his three-run shot gave Wagner a 3-1 lead over Lafayette. ... Monmouth has scored at least a run in every game so far this year. Sophomore Ian Karlsson (Brooklyn, NY/Xaverian) collected the win against the Pards, throwing 3.0 perfect innings with two strikeouts. … The Seahawks Mount St. Mary’s (8-9, 0-0 NEC) then rallied past Maine with three fifth-inning runs. … Martutartus again gave The Mount went 3-0 this week to stretch its win streak to four. After starting the season 0-6, the the Green & White the lead with a two-run double after he started the Seahawk Mount has won eight of 11 games to move to 8-9 on the season. ... The Mount opened the week scoring with a second-inning . … Sophomore Jack Rice (Middlesex, with a 7-3 victory against UMBC (Mar. 24) and followed with a doubleheader sweep at Mary- NJ/Immaculata) added a pair of two-out RBI singles against the Black Bears. land-Eastern Shore (Mar. 25), 15-5 and 6-3. ... Junior righty Max Brittenham (Stamford, CT/ … His former high school teammate Kyle Morrison (Middlesex, NJ/ St. Luke’s) allowed one earned run with seven strikeouts in 6.1 innings to earn the victory Immaculata) picked up the win, striking out four while yielding four runs, against UMBC. ... Junior Jacob Darr (Frederick, MD/Thomas Johnson) broke out of a three earned, over 6.0 innings and is 4-1 on the year. … Martutartus led season-opening slump, hitting .500 (7-for-14) for the week. ... The Mount has stolen 27 bases Wagner on the week, going 3-6 with a home run, double and six RBI while this season, just two shy of last year's season total of 29. Freshman Buddy Fields (Manassas, posting a 1.167 . … Junior Damian Csakai (Freehold, VA/Stonewall Jackson) leads the way with seven stolen bases. ... Freshman left-hander Brady NJ/Freehold Twp.) also collected three stolen bases and is now a perfect 10- Feigl (Severn, MD/Old Mill) continues to shine out of the pen, posting a 1.76 ERA with 17 k's 10 on the year and 64-66 for his career. in 15.1 innings of work. ... Brittenham leads the staff with 28 strikeouts in 21.0 innings this season while Costa Kapothanasis (Westbrook, ME/Cheverus) has 20 Ks in 27.1 innings of work. Kapothanasis leads the team with a 3-2 record and a 4.61 ERA. The Mount heads to