Jennifer Hoffer – Sports Writer –
The Owls baseball team took three out of four games this past week after struggling the week before.
The Owls had a one game set against Adelphi in Garden City, New York.
The Owls got started with two runs in the first inning as Michael Cleary led off with a double. A.J. Rouleau would later knock Cleary in that inning for the first run of the game.
The Owls would strike again in the fourth inning with a double down the line by Alex Wichmann, scoring Brandon Docimo.
Cleary would pick up an RBI in the same inning, lining out to center, but able to score T.J. Shea at the same time.
The offense for the WOls in the sixth inning would put the game away and give the Owls a win. T.J. Shea singled with the bases loaded, which plated Nick Baviello.
Alex Wichmann would pick up two RBI’s as he singled to center, scoring Shea and Rouleau. The Owls would lead 8-0 after six innings, and they would hold on to that lead, winning 8-4.
Rocco Cundari picked up the win; his sixth of the year.
Adelphi also scored four in the sixth but were unable to come up with more runs.
Pat Egan came in to replace Cundari to finish out the game.
Cundari left the game with five strikeouts and nine hits against him.
Egan came into the game giving up only one hit in two innings, while striking out two.
Egan has high hopes of this team reaching the post season.
“We played pretty well this week,” Egan said. “We’re winning and hopefully starting a run that will propel us into the playoff picture. Last week was tough but we are heading into the right direction now. We need to win every game and that is exactly how we are treating them.”
The Owls came back home to start a three game series against American International College.
Cole Bryant took the mound for the first game against the Yellow Jackets.
Bryant struck out seven over seven innings and giving up and earned run.
The win gave Bryant his fourth win of the season.
The Owls, again, started getting runs in the first inning, getting a run off a single by Rouleau.
The Owls picked up one in the third inning and two in the fifth and seventh innings.
Cleary went 2-4 and Baviello went 2-4 in the game. Rouleau went 2-4 giving him three RBI’s in the game.
The Owls won the game 6-2.
Cleary also said he likes to be back on the winning side of things after this weekend.
“We have four very important games left to end the regular season,” Cleary said. “We need to come out and win all four games and hope to sneak our way into the playoffs.”
In a double-header on Saturday, the Owls split the games to win the series against AIC 2-1.
Steve Landell took the mound for the Owls in the first game on Saturday, going six strong innings, striking out twelve and only giving up two earned runs.
The Owls were behind in the second inning trailing by one.
But they came back in the bottom half of the inning with two runs. The Owls would not trail after that and win the game 5-2.
With the win, Landell picked up his first win of the season.
In game two on Saturday, Ryan Yerina took the mound for the Owls. He went three innings giving up three earned runs.
Mike Yerina came in to relieve Ryan in the top of the fourth inning trailing 3-0.
The Owls were only able to get two runs on the board. And they both came in the fifth inning off a single by Cleary, plating two runs.
The Owls would lose the game 7-2.
Entering today the Owls will have three games remaining on their regular season schedule.
The team will push their way in an attempt to make it to the post season.
In game one of the double-header against AIC, Steve Landell tallied his first win after allowing six hits through six innings. He struck out 12 batters.
