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Joe Christiana
RJ Damato
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Felician FELICIAN 10-15
11
Winner Post POST 10-13
Felician FELICIAN
10-15
1
Final
11
Post POST
10-13
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Felician FELICIAN 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 6 5
Post POST 0 1 0 1 1 3 5 11 11 0

W: Christiana, Joe (2-1) L: N. DeCarlo (1-3)

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Winner Felician FELICIAN 11-15
3
Post POST 10-14
Winner
Felician FELICIAN
11-15
9
Final
3
Post POST
10-14
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 R H E
Felician FELICIAN 1 0 3 0 3 1 1 0 9 12 1
Post POST 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 3 8 1

W: D. Kiritsis (1-2) L: Martineau, Jack (0-2)

Game Recap: Baseball | | Michael Vesci, Director of Athletic Communications

Brennan Brings the Bat, Christiana Deals on the Mound for Baseball -- Eagles Split Doubleheader Against Felician

WATERBURY, Conn. – A tale of two games for Post University Baseball saw the Eagles' offense come to life in game one, leading to an 11-1 victory over Felician University, but game two was a different story as the Golden Falcons got out to a seven-run lead to force a doubleheader split with a 9-3 win over the Eagles.

In the season series, Post finishes 2-1 in the regular season against Felician, holding the critical tiebreaker in the North Division as well as beginning their conference schedule above .500 to start the spring.

THE BASICS

Post University 11, Felician University 1 (7 Innings)    
 
Post University 3, Felician University 9 (7 Innings)

Post University (10-14, 2-1 CACC)

Felician University (11-15, 1-2 CACC)

HOW IT HAPPENED

Game 1: Post University 11, Felician University 1 (7 Innings)
Graduate right-hander Joe Christiana was stellar in his seven-inning complete game in which he allowed just one run on six hits while striking out seven and walking two on 97 pitches. That lone run he would give up came in the top of the first to senior infielder Dauri Genao which was immediately met by junior infielder Hunter Keller's game-tying sacrifice bunt in the second.

That was the start of 11 unanswered runs for the Eagles who finished off the Golden Falcons in seven innings after a 3-for-4 performance from junior catcher Jimmy Brennan in which he fell a triple short of the cycle while driving in two runs and scoring four times. Five errors from the Felician defense resulted in five unearned runs for Post in the victory which was capped off by eight runs between the sixth and seventh innings.

A leadoff home run by Brennan in the sixth and an RBI double from senior shortstop Evan Cornwell bookended a three-run inning for the Eagles around a fielder's choice from senior outfielder Michael Pavelchak. Brennan's RBI double in the seventh followed by a bases-clearing double from senior outfielder Danny Gill and a game-winning RBI single from Pavelchak topped off the offensive explosion for Post who took game one, 11-1, for their second conference victory of the season.  

Game 2: Post University 3, Felician University 9
Freshman right-hander Jack Martineau made his fourth start of the season for the Eagles, lasing exactly four innings before being pulled for junior right-hander Justin Portes. Martineau finished his outing giving up five runs on seven hits with five strikeouts and two walks as the Golden Falcon offense showcased its power against him during the start.

Freshman outfielder Andrew DeAngelis singled home sophomore utilityman Thomas Kendrick who led the game off with a triple to put Felician ahead in the first inning, just like in game one, 1-0. Three more runs came across in the third off Martineau via a pair of doubles from sophomore infielder Haiden Walters and sophomore catcher Jose David Medrano around a sacrifice fly by graduate first baseman Ricky Voss.

Voss would go on to double in two more runs in the fifth off Portes while junior infielder Cole Porter's fielder's choice plated one more to make it a 7-0 ballgame. But the Eagles would not go down quietly in this one, striking for three of their own in the bottom half of the frame and knocking out junior right-hander Daniel Kiritsis from the game after 4 1/3 innings.

With the bases loaded, Pavelchak would single home a run but a baserunning blunder caused the first out of the inning in Gill. With junior right-hander Logan Waltz coming in relief, Cornwell's infield single would result in a throwing error by Walters that led to two more runs for Post with still only one out before Waltz retired the next two batters to keep the score at 7-3.

While Waltz set down six of the last seven batters he faced in the sixth and seventh innings, Walters and Kendrick would tack on two insurance runs for the Golden Falcons with an RBI single and sacrifice fly respectively to secure the 9-3 win and a doubleheader split in game two.

BY THE NUMBERS
  • Jimmy Brennan powered the offense for Post in both games, going a team-best 5-for-7 with a double, home run, three singles, two runs batted in, and four runs scored
  • Post University moves to 4-11 when their opponent scores first in a game while staying at 6-3 this season when scoring the game's first run – The Eagles allowed Felician to score first in both games of today's doubleheader
  • Post University pitching has allowed only one run in four outings this season after today's win, including twice against Felician in their last two games
  • In the all-time series, Post has won 10 of their last 12 games against Felician University with today's game two loss and the second game of the CACC Championship Final being the two losses in that stretch which dates back to the beginning of the 2022 season

WHO'S NEXT
Post University stays at home to face off against Chestnut Hill College on Tuesday afternoon in a pair of seven-inning games scheduled to start at 12:00 PM at Municipal Stadium. The Eagles have lost six of their last seven games against the Griffins dating back to 2019, but split their doubleheader last season down in Pennsylvania, winning game one, 10-7, before dropping game two, 8-6.
 
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