Riverdale, NY (April 10, 2005)- Marist used an 11 run fifth inning to break open a close game on the way to a 19-6 win over Manhattan today at Van Cortlandt Park in a MAAC baseball contest. Sophomore
Nick Derba went deep twice for the Jaspers, who fall to 9-10, 3-2 in MAAC play. The Red Foxes improve to 9-14, 7-2 in MAAC play.
Marist scored an unearned run in the top of the first to take an early, 1-0, lead before Derba connected on a solo blast to right center to knot the score at 1-1 in the bottom of the frame.
The Red Foxes added two more unearned runs in the top of the third to take a 3-1 lead before Manhattan responded again, plating an unearned run of its own on a Derba RBI fielder's choice.
Marist put the game out of reach with the 11 run fifth, sending 13 batters to the plate, going through three Manhattan pitchers and scoring the runs on nine hits and with the help of three Jasper errors.
The Red Foxes added a run in the seventh and three more in the eighth to extend the lead to 18-2 before Manhattan tallied two markers in the bottom of the eighth on an RBI single by
Ryan Marcoux and an RBI fielder's choice off the bat of
Eric Nieto.
After Marist scored once more in the top of the ninth, the Jaspers tallied the final two runs of the game on a two-run blast to left by Derba.
Jonathan Smith (2-1) went the distance for Marist, while
Jesse Darcy (1-3) took the loss for Manhattan, as five different Jasper hurlers saw action.
All 11 Red Fox batters that saw action had at least one hit, with six having multi-hit games as Marist banged out 23 hits. 10 of the 11 Red Fox batters tallied at least one RBI. Derba was the only Jasper with a multi-hit game, going 2-4 with three runs and four RBI.
Manhattan returns to action on Wednesday, April 13, when the Jaspers travel to West Point, NY to take on the Army Black Knights at 3:30 p.m.
