Bronxville, N.Y. - The Post University baseball team's kept the hot hitting going, smashing seven home runs in a doubleheader sweep of Concordia in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tilt. They won game one, 17-6, and game two, 15-1.
In game one, the Eagles started off where they left off from Monday, as lead off hitter, junior
Travious Ford (Greenville, N.C.) hit his second home run of the season to left field to begin the game, giving the Eagles the early 1-0 lead. Post tacked on another run in the second and third on an RBI double by freshman
Isaias Guzman (Passaic, N.J.) and an RBI single by senior
Rosario Missiti (Belmont, Mass.), respectively, giving Post the 3-0 lead.
After Concordia cut Post's lead to 3-2 in the fourth, the Eagles bats reached another level as Ford, freshman
Christian Aliberti (Eastchester, N.Y.) and junior
Tyler Melko (Knoxville, Penn.) hit three consecutive singles to start the inning with Ford scoring on Melko's single to give Post the 4-2 lead. Missiti followed with an RBI double.
The big hit of the inning came from sophomore
Matt Goehrig (Clifton, N.J.), who smashed his third home run of the season, a three-run shot to left that scored Missiti and Melko to give Post an 8-2 lead.
Concordia answered with two runs in the bottom of the fifth, but the Eagles built on their successful fifth inning with an even better sixth, hitting two three-run homers to seal the game. After Goehrig hit an RBI single to give Post a 9-5 lead, freshman
Nicholas Gastin (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) drove a three run shot to left that scored Goehrig and Missiti, putting Post up, 12-5. Post wasted no time putting more runners on base, as Guzman doubled with one out before Ford singled to put runners on second and third setting up the hero from Monday, Aliberti who hit his third homer in four games, this time a three run shot to put the Eagles up 15-5.
Post tacked on one more run in the seventh and ninth, both courtesy of Guzman, who hit an RBI double in the seventh and a solo home run in the ninth, his first of the season.
Aliberti finished the game going 2-for-6 with two runs and three RBI. Ford went 3-for-4 with four runs and an RBI. Missiti went 4-for-5 with two runs and two RBI. Goehrig went 2-for-4 with four runs and four RBI and Guzman went 5-for-6 with three RBI and two runs.
The Eagles finished with 22 hits in the game.
Senior
Tyler Kovalewich (Colonia, N.J.) got his first win of the season, pitching six innings, giving up six runs - five earned - while striking out nine.
In game two, Aliberti went 4-for-4 with four runs and four RBI and Melko hit a two-run homer as eight different Eagles scored runs as the Eagles won 15-1 in game two.
Post scored two in the first inning on a two-run single by Gastin that scored Melko and Aliberti, who both hit one out singles.
In the third, the Eagles scored two more on Melko's home run wih no one out. Aliberti, who walked, scored on the homer.
Three more runs crossed the plate in the fourth as an RBI single by Aliberti and a defensive mishap by Concordia put Post up 7-0.
The big damage came in the top of the seventh as Guzman hit a two-run single to begin the scoring before junior
Jared Zima (Berlin, Conn.) followed with an RBI single. After Ford was hit with a pitch to load the bases, Aliberti continued his hot streak hitting a bases clearing double to put Post up 13-0. Two batters later, Missiti hit his team leading sixth homer of the season, a two-run shot for Post's final tally.
On the hill, junior
Trenton Taylor (Taft, Calif.) pitched a complete game giving up just one earned run and striking out nine for his first win of the season.
Melko went 2-for-4 with two runs and two RBI. Missiti went 2-for-5 with two runs and two RBI. Post finished with 17 hits.
The Eagles (8-10, 6-2 CACC) and Clippers will meet each other again, this time at Municipal Stadium at noon on March 29 for a doubleheader.
