Coming off of their first win of the 2021 season and their first as an official East Coast Conference school, the College of Staten Island Baseball team is now turning their attention to outside of the conference, when they host Dominican College at the CSI Baseball Complex.  Dominican rolls in after being idle since late-March.

COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND VS. DOMINICAN COLLEGE
Matchup: College of Staten Island (1-5) vs. Dominican College (5-3)
Where:  CSI Baseball Complex - Staten Island, NY
Live Video: http://www.csidolphins.com/CSISportsNet
Live Stats: https://csidolphins.com/sidearmstats/baseball/summary
Spectator Policy:  No Spectator Access
All-Time Series:  Dominican leads 5-3
Last Meeting: April 17, 2003 -(DH) DC won 18-5 & CSI won 10-7
Players to Watch (CSI):  Angel Santiago sat CSI's last game after making five-straight starts, but he still leads the way with a .350 batting average.  In limited duty, Thomas Marten is next in line at .333, adding a pair of doubles.  Thomas Joyce hit his first homerun of the year on Monday and rose his batting average up to .318.  Shendi Ulaj is the team leader in RBI with eight, and is tied for the team lead with four extra base hits.  Peter Lombardo, batting .462, and Domenick Castiglione, batting .455, both returned on Monday to make their third starts on the season.  Leadoff hitter Louie Mandile has garnered a team-high five walks.  Nick Vilardi, in minimal innings, leads the Dolphins with a 3.37 ERA this season.  The Dolphins have had 10 different pitchers take the hill this season, with no pitcher gaining more than 9 innings pitched.  John Esposito easily leads the team in strikeouts, amassing 9 in 7.1 innings.
Players to Watch (DC):  Through eight starts, DC is being led at the plate by Richard Paulino, who is batting .417 with three doubles and three RBI.  The heavy hitter is Joshua Colon, batting .393, with seven of his 11 hits as extra-base hits including a homerun and a team-high eight RBI.  Brian Sanders (.310) is third on the squad with 9 hits adding five RBI.  Both Paulino and speedy Ryan Ruziecki are leading Dominican with four stolen bases apiece.  Eric Sandusky is leading the Chargers on the hill this season with nine innings tossed and a perfect 0.00 ERA with 13 K's.  John Rodriquez is also 1-0 with a 3.86 ERA, fanning nine batters in seven innings.
News & Notes: The two teams this afternoon are renewing a rivalry that has been dormant for almost 18 years.  In the eight all-time meetings, Dominican has taken five wins, and has a 4-2 record in games played at the College of Staten Island.  CSI, however, did win the last game in the series, 10-7, following an 18-5 loss in game one of a doubleheader played way back in 2003.  The two teams played for six-straights seasons before that, after introducing play against one-another in 1993.  Dominican has been idle since March 27, on that day beating CSI's ECC-neighbor in Mercy College, 6-2.  That broke a two-game slide for the Chargers after they had won four of their first five games on the season.  Dominican is currently ranked No. 7 in the NCBWA Northeast Poll.  Playing in the CACC, they get back to conference play with a doubleheader against Goldey-Beacom College on Friday.  As for CSI, after a 10-inning affair on Monday, they get right back to work today and play the first two in a three-game set on Friday against St. Thomas Aquinas at home, beginning at 2:00 PM.  CSI is batting a respectable .284 this season, with 18 extra base hits.  CSI, however, has just one stolen base on the season, a stark contrast to Dominican, who are averaging two per game so far this season (16 overall).