3/13/2004
Box Score
WINTER PARK
, Fla. ? Georgetown posted four runs in the fourth inning, capped off with a Andrew Cleary (Weston, Mass./ Belmont Hill) three-run blast, and went on to defeat Long Island, 7-2, in the first game of day three of the Rollins College Baseball Week.
Second baseman Parker Brooks (Las Vegas, Nev./ Bishop Gorman) was 3-for-4 with two runs scored, and third baseman Danny Gronski (Sammamish, Wash./ Skyline), cather Michael Lombardi (Brookhaven Hamlet, N.Y./ St. Anthony's), and shortstop Matthew Johnson (Bothell, Wash./ Newport) were each 1-for-4 with one run scored as the Hoyas (12-7) rallied to win their 11th game in their last 13 tries.
Freshman lefty Mark Dutmers (Sarasota, Fla./ Riverview) picked up the win on the mound for the Hoyas, allowing no runs and just two hits in three innings of relief work.
Anthony Valvano and Tim Doherty were each 2-for-4 to lead the Blackbirds (1-6) at the plate. Valvano and Marcus Wynn each recorded a run batted in. Peter Orsi suffered the loss, allowing five runs on five hits in four innings on the hill.
Brooks started the Hoyas off in the bottom of the first with a lead-off double. He was brought home by a Gronski triple on the Hoyas? next at bat, as Georgetown jumped out to an early 1-0 lead. Long Island came back to tie the score at one in the second inning when Valvano hit a bases-loaded sac fly to right that brought home Matthew Martino.
The score remained knotted at one until the fourth, when Lombardi doubled down the right field line to score Brooks, then Cleary?s three run homer over the right center fence put the Hoyas up 5-1. Georgetown got another run in the fifth when leftfielder Ron Cano (El Segundo, Calif./ El Segundo) led off with a triple, then scored on a throwing error by the shortstop to make the score 6-1. Georgetown then went up 7-1 the next inning behind a Matthew Johnson RBI double. Long Island plated a runner in the eighth to make the score 7-2, but weren?t able to get anything else going and fell by five runs.
Georgetown will be back in action on Saturday, March 13, when they will take on Pennsylvania at 3:30 p.m., followed by a clash with Rollins at 7:00 p.m.
