Waterbury, Conn. - Freshman
Christian Aliberti (Eastchester, N.Y.) hit a walkoff grand slam, and included another solo shot and senior
Rosario Missiti (Belmont, Mass.) hit two homers of his own as the Post University baseball team swept Nyack, 14-10 (10 innings) and 13-7 on Monday afternoon at Municipal Stadium in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader.
In the bottom of the tenth in game one, with the score tied 10-10, sophomore
Danny Di Marzo (Fishkill, N.Y.) led off with a walk to get the inning started. After a single from sophomore
Miguel De Los Santos (Clifton, N.J.), a ground out advanced both runners to second and third. Junior
Travious Ford (Greenville, N.C.) was then intentionally walked, setting the stage for Aliberti who took a pitch from Nyack's John E. Bean III and smacked it over the left field wall, bouncing off the light tower and back on to the field to give the Eagles the win.
Nyack jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the top of the second, but the Eagles answered as Di Marzo hit a two-run double that scored freshman
Isaias Guzman (Passaic, N.J.) and sophomore
Matt Goehrig (Clifton, N.J.) to tie the game, 2-2.
After Nyack answered with three more runs in the third, highlighted by a two-run single from Matthew Johnson, Di Marzo again, would drive in another run. This time with an RBI single to score Missiti to make it a 5-3 game.Â
A solo homer by Nyack's Yoni Rodriguez gave the Warriors the 6-3 lead in the top of the fourth before the Eagles answered with the first of their four home runs of the game as Missiti hit a two-run shot that scored Ford to make it a 6-5 game after the fourth inning.
In the sixth, Aliberti led off the inning with a single before two straight outs before Goehrig hit his second homer of the season to give Post its first lead of the game at 7-6 in the bottom of the sixth.
Nyack scored four runs in the top of the seventh to take a 10-7 lead, capped by an RBI single from Alec Petterson.
Aliberti would get the comeback started in the bottom of the seventh, tattooing his first homer of the game, a one out solo shot to close the gap to 10-8. Junior
Tyler Melko (Knoxville, Penn.) then followed with a double - who was pinch run for by junior
Evan Schaffner (Boynton Beach, Fla.) - before Missiti hit an RBI single to make it a one run game heading into the eighth.
In the eighth, after a lead off single by Guzman, De Los Santos hit a one out RBI single to drive in the tying run, setting the stage for Aliberti's extra inning heroics.
Aliberti finished the game 3-for-7 with three runs and five RBI. Missiti was 4-for-6 with two runs and three RBI. Di Marzo was 3-for-5 with three RBI and a run. The Eagles had 20 hits. Senior
Mike Munson (Plainville, Conn.) got the win in relief, pitching three scoreless innings and striking out three.
David Gauthier was 4-for-4 with three runs and two RBI for Nyack.
In game two, the Eagles kept the bats hot rallying from an early 3-0 deficit with a big bottom of the third.
The inning started off with back-to-back walks from Di Marzo and junior
Jared Zima (Berlin, Conn.) followed by an RBI double from freshman
Evan Sinclair (Brooklyn, N.Y.) that drove in Di Marzo.
After the Eagles recorded their first out, Nyack walked Aliberti - intentionally - and Melko which drove in Zima to make it a 3-2 game. Missiti followed with an RBI single to score Aliberti to tie the game, 3-3.
Post would take a lead on their fourth walk of the inning, this time to Goehrig to go up 4-3, a lead they would never relinquish.
Guzman followed with a two-run single to give Post the 6-3 lead. A Zima fielder's choice and Sinclair RBI single finished the scoring in the inning for the Eagles who took a commanding 8-3 lead.
The scoring didn't let up in the bottom of the fourth as Missiti hit his second homer of the day, a two-run shot that scored
Tyler Melko, who reached on a fielder's choice, that gave Post a 10-3 lead. A sac fly from Zima and RBI walks from Schaffner and Aliberti a 13-3 lead.
It was important insurance for the Eagles as Nyack scored four runs in the top of the fifth to cut into Post's lead, at 13-7. Post tacked on one final run in the bottom of the sixth on an RBI triple from Sinclair.
Missiti finished 2-for-4 with two runs and three RBI. Di Marzo was 1-for-1, and walked three times, scoring four runs.Sinclair was 3-for-3 with three RBI and a run.
Up next, the Eagles (6-10, 4-2 CACC) take on Concordia in a CACC doubleheader on Tuesday beginning at 1 p.m.
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