Box Score The College of Staten Island men's baseball team bounced back from a tough, 15-3, loss to New Jersey City University on Wednesday, with a crisp, 12-3, victory over the University of Maine (Presque Isle) in non-conference action at the CSI Baseball Complex. The win lifted the Dolphins to 7-5 overall while the Owls fell to 2-9.
CSI jumped out on top 2-0 in the first inning thanks to a Henry Roman single that plated Devon DiCasoli, who led off the inning with a walk. After Roman advanced on a ground ball and a steal of third, he scored via a Tom DiPietro sac fly.
As CSI starter Casey Mulligan whizzed through the early innings, CSI added a single run in the second inning and another deuce in the third. DiPietro was the highlight again, pasting a monster two-run homerun over the left field wall to plate Pat Gale, who walked to start the third.
Already up 5-0, CSI responded for another four tallies in the fourth, blowing the game open. A two-RBI single by Gale was the catalyst in the assault, while DiPietro and Joe Cassano added RBI singles.
The run support was more than enough for Mulligan who pitched seven sharp innings, giving up one lone unearned run on three hits, fanning a trio. Anthony Collucci pitched the final two innings of relief.
CSI's Thomas DeWaters recorded a four-hit game, going 4-for-5 with a pair of RBI's and a run scored. The senior is now 17th all-time for CSI with 117 hits. Fellow senior Devon DiCasoli registered a pair of stolen bases, bringing his career total to 46, good for second all-time in CSI career history. The all-time mark is 59 by former Dolphin Bob Glennerster. Cassano and Cory Sullivan both had three-hit games for the Dolphins, who scattered 17 hits total. Jake Fillebrown took the loss for the Owls, allowing eight earned over 3.2 innings.
CSI will be right back to action tomorrow, taking on NYU-Polytechnic at the CSI Baseball Complex at 6pm for a single, non-conference, affair.
