BRONX, NY - The CMSV Baseball team returned to the diamond on Wednesday night, traveling across the Bronx, to take on the Lehman Lightning in a non-conference matchup. Despite scoring a season-high 11 runs, the Dolphins lost 14-11, falling to 4-10 on the season.
Eight of the nine Dolphins in the starting lineup, collected at least one hit and all nine batters were on base at least once.
Hitting in the no. 2 hole,
Matthew Nesensohn went 2-for-6 with 3 RBI and a run scored, while
Michael Kochen and
James Valenti both went 2-for-5.
Emanuel Giumarra went 2-for-4 with 2 RBI and 2 runs scored, while
Kyle Tamburi went 1-for-5 with 3 RBI, the one hit was the freshman's first career home-run.
Kochen started for the Dolphins, going 4 innings, giving up 8 earned runs on 8 hits, while striking out only two batters.
Luis Castillo pitched 3.1 innings of relief, giving up 4 earned runs, while
Siddeeq Ali got the final two outs for the Mount.
Lehman opened up a 4-0 lead at the end of two innings but the Dolphins responded by scoring two runs in the 3rd, the first on an RBI fielders choice and the second on an RBI groundout.
In the 4th Giumarra singled to center, driving in Valenti to bring the Dolphins to within one at 4-3. But in the bottom of the inning, Lehman scored six runs to take a 10-4 lead.
Tamburi would get one back in the 5th with his solo home-run and then in the top of the 6th, CMSV came alive to score five more to pull to within one once again at 10-9. Kochen delivered the big blow, a 2-run single to center, that drove in Nesensohn and Pasquale.
Lehman's offense struck again scoring twice in the 6th and 8th to take a 14-9 lead into the 9th inning, where CMSV would scratch together two runs, which was not enough to complete the comeback.
