The SUNY Oneonta baseball team continues its spring trip to Florida and, today, they came up short against Franklin & Marshall 12-10 in a slugfest.  The two teams combined for 30 hits in the nine inning game, which saw Oneonta collect 14 of them.  The Red Dragons are now 3-7 overall with a single game tomorrow versus Rowan to end its trip.

Oneonta found itself in a six-run hole in today's game entering the bottom of the second inning.  The Diplomats touched up starter, Mickey Silberfeld (Point Lookout/Long Beach), for six runs on seven hits in the top of the inning.  Silberfeld lasted only three innings today, as he allowed eight runs on 11 hits while recording three strikeouts.

Oneonta got a run back in the bottom of the second when freshman Billy Riedel (East Northport/John Glenn) hit an RBI single to right field that drove in junior Mike Cruz (Levittown/Division Avenue), who walked to start the inning before being moved to second by Jon Halligan (Cornwallville/Cairo Durham).  Reidel collected three hits in the game for Oneonta.

After two more runs in the top of the third by F&M, the Red Dragons scored three runs in the bottom of the inning to close the gap to 8-4.  Freshman Casy Kies (Apalachin/Vestal) scored the first run when Matt Mastroianni (Somers/North Salem) drove him in from second on a single to left field.  Mastroianni finished the game with three hits and a career high four runs batted in.

Mastroianni then stole second, went to third on an infield single by Christopher Orlando (Putnam Valley/Putnam Valley), and scored on a single by David Wright (Oneonta/Oneonta).  Orlando came in to score on a double play turned by the Diplomats.

Oneonta trailed 11-4 entering the bottom of the fifth inning.  In the inning, Mastroianni knocked in his second run of the game with a single to right center field that drove in Kies, who had reached on an error before stealing second and third base.  Mastroianni scored on a wild pitch.

A single run for Oneonta in the sixth and a single run for F&M in the top of the seventh made the score 12-7 entering the bottom of the eighth inning where the Red Dragons scored its final three runs of the contest.  Reidel began the inning with a double down the left field line.  Steve Ascher (Cutchogue/Mattituck) came in to pinch run and went to third on a wild pitch before scoring on a single by LJ Gizzarelli (Newburgh/Newburgh Free Academy).

Kies followed with a double to put runners at second and third for Oneonta.  Mastroianni drove in Gizzarelli from third with an RBI single before Kies was driven in with a sacrifice fly by Orlando.

Against SUNY Canton yesterday, the Red Dragons dropped the opener, 12-1, but bounced back in the nightcap, 7-4.  Oneonta collected 11 hits in game 2 including the second home run of the season for the Red Dragons off the bat of Orlando.

SUNY Canton plated three runs in the top of the first and carried its lead into the fourth before the Red Dragons finally got on the scoreboard with a single run in the home half of the inning.  Oneonta then added three runs in each of the next two innings to take the win.

Orlando led off the bottom of the fourth with a solo shot for his first round-tripper of 2014.  Orlando finished the game with three hits and two runs batted in.

Textbook baseball led to the first run of the fifth inning, as Halligan singled to lead off the inning and then was sacrificed to second by Gizzarelli.  Halligan then scored on an RBI single by Kies.  Kies had three hits in the game as well for Oneonta.

Kies scored the second run of the fifth after stealing second and coming around to score on a single to right field by Mastroianni.  Mastroianni scored on an RBI single by Orlando after moving to second base on a passed ball.

The Red Dragons loaded the bases in the sixth with no outs thanks to an error, a hit batsman, and a single by Halligan.  The first two runs came home on a single to center field by Gizzarelli.  Gizzarelli scored the final run of the inning on a fielder's choice.

Freshman Robert Marks (Brooklyn/Brooklyn Technical) picked up his first collegiate win going the distance with six strikeouts.  Marks allowed eight hits and four runs over the seven innings.

In the first game of the day, SUNY Canton jumped out to an 11-1 lead after three innings, which included a seven-run first inning.  Wright, who had a double in the game, had two of Oneonta's five hits.