STONY BROOK, N.Y. – In his final start of the season, Stony Brook senior
Ben Fero tossed a gem as he went 8.1 innings and struck out a career-high 11 batters en route to a 5-3 win over NJIT on Thursday afternoon. Junior catcher
Shane Paradine, sophomore infielder
Matt Brown-Eiring, and junior outfielder
Derek Yalon fueled Stony Brook's offense as they went a combined 6-11 with two home runs and five RBI.
NJIT struck first when Julio Marcano drove in the game's first run in the top of the third inning. Stony Brook responded in the bottom of the third with a pair of runs of its own. Yalon crushed his second home run of the season, a solo shot to even the game up at 1-1. Paradine gave the Seawolves a 2-1 lead with a two-out RBI double that chased home senior third baseman
Evan Giordano.
The Highlanders knotted the game up at 2-2 when Jared Donelly brought home a run with a sacrifice fly. Stony Brook broke the tie in the bottom of the sixth inning when it rallied for three runs in the frame. Paradine notched his second RBI of the day with a single that brought home sophomore infielder/outfielder
Evan Fox.
After Paradine's RBI single, Brown-Eiring launched a two-run home run to left field to give the Seawolves a 5-2 advantage. From there, Fero closed the door as he surrendered one final run in the top of the ninth inning as the Seawolves held on to win by the final score of 5-3.
Fero became the first Seawolves' pitcher to pitch into the ninth inning since
Jared Milch went the distance on May 28, 2021, against Albany. The senior notched his fourth win of the season and recorded his first career double-digit strikeout performance.
STATS AND NOTES
- Fero tossed 8.1 innings and surrendered three runs (all earned) on six hits. He struck out 11 and walked none as he pitched into the ninth inning for the first time in his career.
- Sophomore Brendan Pattermann came on in relief of Fero in the top of the ninth inning. Pattermann retired both batters that he faced and struck out one in the process. The sophomore earned his fourth save of the season.
- Paradine went 3-4 at the dish with a double, two RBI, and one run scored. It was his 15th multi-hit game of the season and his fifth three-hit game. Paradine leads the team in multi-hit games and is second in three-hit games. It was his first three-hit game since April 17, when he registered four hits against Binghamton.
- Brown-Eiring went 2-4 with the two-run home run. Brown-Eiring's homer was his 10th of the season and second in his last three games.
- Yalon finished 1-3 was a solo home run. The homer was his second of the season and first since March 13, against Old Dominion.
- Junior Brett Paulsen went 1-4 with a single. His single extended his hitting streak to nine games in a row.
QUOTES FROM THE SEAWOLVES
"Anytime that you are in a three-game series, the first game is huge, it puts you in great position to win the series. We took care of business today, we did a great job, we are not going to get out ahead of ourselves and talk sweep, but for those reasons – we have put ourselves in a real good position to win another conference series and we are still in it in regards to winning a conference regular season championship," said head coach
Matt Senk.
NEXT UP
The Seawolves and Highlanders are back in action tomorrow for the second game of the three-game set. First pitch on Friday is slated for 3 p.m., and the game is set to air on AmericaEast.TV.
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