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College of Staten Island Athletics

COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND ATHLETICS
BSB5424_POST
3
Winner Holy Family HFUBASE 20-26
2
Staten Island CSIBSB24 14-28
Winner
Holy Family HFUBASE
20-26
3
Final
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Staten Island CSIBSB24
14-28
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Holy Family HFUBASE 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 1 3 6 1
Staten Island CSIBSB24 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 7 1

W: Ian Malone (1-2) L: Kielty, Aidan (0-1)

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Holy Family HFUBASE 20-27
13
Winner Staten Island CSIBSB24 15-28
Holy Family HFUBASE
20-27
1
Final
13
Staten Island CSIBSB24
15-28
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Holy Family HFUBASE 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 3
Staten Island CSIBSB24 0 3 1 5 1 3 X 13 12 0

W: Santos, Gerard (5-3) L: Christian Culver (5-3)

Game Recap: Baseball |

MARTEN, POLEMENI BROTHERS, ALL HOMER IN GAME TWO HEROES DAY WIN OVER HOLY FAMILY, 13-1

Staten Island, NY – The College of Staten Island Baseball Team wrapped up the 2024 season today with their second annual Hometown Heroes Day fundraiser games against Holy Family University.  In game one, the Dolphins had a chance to win in the seventh, but they ultimately fell by a final score of 3-2 in extra innings.  In game two, a CSI power surge led by home runs from Thomas Marten, Chris Polemeni and Matthew Polemeni earned the Dolphins a big 13-1 win.  The Dolphins finish the season at 15-28 while the Tigers finish the regular season 20-27.

Prior to game one, the Dolphins remembered the lives of four fallen heroes that meant a great deal to both the team and the Staten Island community.  Firefighters Steve Sosa and Anthony.Iraci, NYPD detective Paul Polemeni, and Port Authority Police Officer Anthony Varvaro were all honored ahead of the game as part of an on-field ceremony.  Hundreds gathered at the CSI Baseball Complex to reflect on the lives of the four heroes, and all funds raised throughout the day were allocated towards a scholarship for a CSI Baseball student-athlete.  That scholarship will also bare the names of the four heroes.

GAME 1
Both starting pitchers were very strong through the first three innings of game one allowing just three combined hits between them.  The biggest threat for either side came in the second inning when CSI starter Ryan Kehoe surrendered a leadoff triple.  From there, Kehoe would go on to strike out the side and strand the go-ahead run at third base.  The Dolphins then came close to breaking the scoreless tie in the same inning after Anthony Sutera sparked a brief two-out rally with a single.  Behind him, Anthony Iraci doubled into the left field corner to give Sutera a chance to score from first.  However, a pair of strong throws by the Tigers cut Sutera down at the plate by a wide margin to keep the game scoreless.  Two innings later, it would be Sutera who ultimately gave the Dolphins the lead on an RBI single.  The Dolphins would go on to strand a pair in that inning, but CSI would score once more in the fifth on an AJ Vigliotti RBI double.

Leading 2-0 entering the sixth, a leadoff hit sit up a game-tying two-run homer by Jon Martinez, his second against the Dolphins this season.  The 2-2 score wouldn't be in jeopardy until the seventh when the Dolphins loaded the bases with two outs.  That would bring up Thomas Marten, but the senior would fly out to center sending the game to extra innings.  The eighth opened with a strikeout, but the third strike ended up at the backstop allowing the leadoff batter to reach.  The baserunner Garrison Pregulman then stole second and remained there with two outs in the inning.  However, the Tigers took the lead for good on a two-out RBI single by Gino Serechia.  Following a leadoff walk, the Dolphins would get the tying run to second, but that runner would be stranded there as the Dolphins went on to lose, 3-2.

GAME 2
The Dolphins took the lead early in game two as Nick Campisi delivered a second-inning RBI single to put the Dolphins in front 1-0.  An error that prolonged the inning then led to another two CSI runs to make it 3-0.  Staked to a three-run lead, Gerard Santos would load the bases with one out in the third.  However, he would escape the jam with a strikeout and infield pop-up.  The Dolphins would extend their lead to four in the third on a long home run by Marten, his fourth of the season, but Santos would encounter trouble once again in the fourth.  Holy Family would load the bases with one out for the second straight inning, but Santos escaped a second time with back-to-back strikeouts.  It was in the home fourth inning that the Dolphins erupted for five runs to go ahead 9-0.  The big blow came on a three-run shot by Chris Polemeni, his sixth of the year.

Leading by nine, the Dolphins added another run in the fifth on an RBI single by Christopher Reilly, but it was in the sixth that the CSI bench delivered a season-defining moment.  Just hours after his late father was honored during a pregame ceremony, and two innings after his brother had homered, Matthew Polemeni came to the plate for the first at-bat of his collegiate career.  With two on base, Polemeni crushed the first pitch he saw over the left field wall to score three and make it 13-0.  Fresh off one of the feel-good moments of the season, the Dolphins closed out their 2024 campaign with a 13-1 victory.

Sutera, Vigliotti, and Chris Polemeni accounted for six of the seven CSI hits in game one as each finished with two in the early game.  In game two, Marten and the Polemeni brothers combined to drive in nine of the thirteen runs in the CSI victory.  Santos earned the win behind five scoreless innings in his final outing of the season giving him a team-high five wins.

The Dolphins end the season finishing sixth in the East Coast Conference with a 7-17 conference record.  With three wins in their last four games, the Dolphins end the year with an overall record of 15-28.  Following the season, they will graduate seniors Thomas Marten, Bryan Birkhead, and Nick Campisi.  Much of the roster will return for the 2025 season as the team will still be looking for their first East Coast Conference playoff appearance.

GAME 1 VIDEO (INCLUDING FULL HEROES DAY CEREMONY)


GAME 2 VIDEO

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