Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. The SUNY Oneonta baseball team fell to Montclair State in a doubleheader at Bard College. The Montclair State Red Hawks improved to 10-4 and the Red Dragons fell to 6-7. In the opening game of the doubleheader the Red Hawks beat the Red Dragons 6-2 before taking the second game by a score of 4-1.
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Oneonta took a 1-0 lead in the third inning of the opening game when senior
Dalton Beatty (Atwater, CA/Atwater), who went 2-4 in game one, singled to right field driving home classmate
Brandon Torres (Highland Mills/Monroe-Woodbury) with the game's first run. Montclair matched that in its half of the inning as Nick Martinez bounced into a fielder's choice that scored Joe Norton tying the game at 1-1.
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Montclair would take the lead in the fourth with two runs. Ollwerther led off with a single and went to third on a double by Aidan Supp. Haden Reyes singled in the infield scoring Ollwerther with Supp scoring two batters later on an RBI single to right by Roth giving Montclair a 3-1 advantage.
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After Oneonta got a run back in the sixth from freshman
John Zinko (Wallkill/Wallkill) singling to right field to score
Damian Vignone (White Plains/White Plains). Montclair scored twice in the bottom of the inning taking advantage of a pair of Red Dragon errors for a 5-2 lead. Norton scored the final run in the eighth on a double-play grounder.
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For the Red Dragons, senior
Thomas Bond (Somers/North Salem) went five innings while striking out four batters en route to his third loss of the season (1-3).
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Montclair would jump out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap. Roth singled in the infield with one out and scored on a triple to right field by Martinez, who scored on Ollwerther's sacrifice fly.
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Brandon LaVenture (Schenectady/Notre Dame-Bishop Gibbons) homered to lead off the Red Dragon second cutting the lead to 2-1, however the Red Hawks answered that with two runs in the third as it took advantage of two Oneonta errors.
First basemen
Dominic Lamonica (Stony Brook/Ward Melville) was 1-2 with a walk in the nightcap, and Torres went 1-3 with a stolen base.
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On the pitching side, junior
Takoda Sitar (Katonah/Somers) went all six innings for the Red Dragons fanning a season high 10 batters while only walking one.Â
The Red Dragons take back to the diamond tomorrow against USMC in a double header in Kings Point, NY. The first pitch is scheduled for noon.
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