BOCA RATON, FL – Monmouth University Baseball (1-6) took a lead into the sixth inning and brought the tying run to the plate in the ninth inning, but fell to Florida Atlantic (4-6) on Friday night, 8-5.
Zach Schild (Lincroft, NJ/Middletown South) homered for the second straight game, but Bobby Morgensen's sixth inning grand slam proved to be the difference in the Owls win.
After a pair of walks,
JD Andreessen (Depew, NY/Lancaster/Campbell) got the Hawks on the board with an RBI single, and
Johnny Zega (Lincroft, NJ/Middletown South) followed with one of his own to stake MU to a 2-0 lead. FAU got them right back in just two batters on Gunnar Lambert's two-run homer, but the Hawks regained the lead in the second on
JP Walsh's (Spring Brook Township, PA/North Pocono) sacrifice fly.
Monmouth extended the lead in the top of the sixth to 4-2 when Schild launched his second home run in as many games, this one again to the opposite field. However, Monmouth's lead was erased in the bottom half after two singles and a hit by pitch loaded the bases with no outs for Morgensen, who hit a grand slam to turn it into a 6-4 FAU lead. Eric Rivera and Lambert went back-to-back with solo shots in the seventh to make it 8-4, with Lambert hitting his second of the night. MU got a run in the ninth on Andreessen's second RBI single of the game and brought the tying run to the plate with two down but couldn't plate the equalizer.
NOTES AND QUOTES
"We battled tonight and came up a few pitches short. We had the tying run at the dish when the game ended. We have an opportunity to get back at it tomorrow." – Head Coach
Dean Ehehalt
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Zach Schild homered for the second game in a row.
-Schild extended his hitting streak to five games.
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Nick Campana posted the third multi-hit game of his career and first this season.
-Andreessen drove in multiple runs in a game for the fifth time as a Hawk second game in a row.
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Michael Dimino made his collegiate debut with a scoreless eighth inning and two strikeouts.
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Max Goione has hits in four of his first six starts this year.
-Five of Monmouth's eight innings were thrown by true freshmen.
NUMBERS CRUNCH
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Rob Hensey took his first career loss, allowing three runs in three innings.
-Each team collected nine hits.
-MU left nine on base to FAU's four.
-Blake Sanderson earned his second win for FAU, allowing four runs, three earned on six hits through six with nine K's.
-Dylan Carter picked up his first save of the season, a three-inning outing.
-The top two players in the FAU order combined for five of FAU's nine hits.
UP NEXT
-Monmouth will take on Florida Atlantic tomorrow at 4:00 p.m. in Boca Raton, FL.
