Baseball: Mountaineers Fall in Ninth
May 04, 2008 05:28 PM | General
May 4, 2008
BOX SCORE
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – St. John’s rallied in the bottom of the ninth inning with four runs, on two home runs to defeat West Virginia, 6-5, in the final game of the three-game series Sunday afternoon at Jack Kaiser Stadium in Queens, N.Y.
With WVU up 5-2, the Red Storm scored four runs, to take the lead in the bottom of the ninth frame. Paul Karmas doubled down the left field line before Gil Zayas singled to center field. Chris Anninos then hit a home run, plating Karmas and Anninos to knot the score at five, before Carlos Del Rosario hit a home run to right field to take the win.
WVU (32-14, 11-10 BIG EAST finished the day with five runs on six hits and committed two errors, while St. Johns (35-10, 16-5 BIG EAST) registered six runs on 13 hits and committed one error.
The Mountaineers were led by Jedd Gyorko who had two hits and one run, while Joe Agreste finished the day with one hit, one run and four RBIs.
WVU closing pitcher Chris Enourato (5-1) suffered the loss, his first of the season. The sophomore allowed four runs on four hits in 0.2 innings of work. Luis Monell (3-1) earned the win for the Red Storm after allowing just one hit, while striking out three, and allowed zero runs in two innings.
The Red Storm took a 1-0 lead in the second inning when Del Rosario hit an RBI double to left field to plate Anninos, who walked to first.
The Mountaineers answered in the top of the fourth when Gyorko singled, advanced to second on Vince Belnome’s sacrifice bunt and reached home when Austin Markel hit an RBI single to center field to knot the score, 1-1.
St. John’s Gino Matias reached first on a WVU error and stole second in the bottom of the fifth frame. Karmas then hit an RBI single to right field to plate Matias, putting the Red Storm up, 2-1.
The Mountaineers took the lead back when Kuhn singled to right field and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt by Gyorko in the top of the sixth inning. Belnome and Markel both walked to load the bases before Agreste came up and hit his sixth home run of the season, putting the Mountaineers ahead, 5-2, before St. John’s ninth inning rally.
The team will next be in action on Saturday, May 10 when the Mountaineers play host to Louisville for a BIG EAST three-game series at Hawley Field. The doubleheader is set to begin at 3 p.m.
