April 3, 2004
Game 1 Box Score | Game 2 Box Score
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - The Fairfield University baseball team pounded out 28 hits in a doubleheader sweep of Canisius College, on a cold Saturday afternoon, at Alumni Diamond, in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) doubleheader.
With the wins Fairfield improves to 6-9 overall, and 2-2 in the MAAC, while Canisius falls to 1-16 overall, and 1-4 in the MAAC.
The first game of the day was pushed back an hour from its original start time of 12 p.m., due to rain that fell overnight, and into the morning. The rains subsided, and both games of the doubleheader were played as scheduled.
Senior Tom Maisano (Farmingdale, N.Y./Chaminade) picked up his third win of the season in the opener, hurling eight innings of six hit ball, while giving up only three runs, one of which was earned. The Long Island native struck out six, for the 160th of his Fairfield career, and is now two shy of tying Steve Colcord for fourth place on the school's all-time strikeout list.
Although the weather was cold, the Stags bats were red hot, as they scored 13 runs on 18 hits in the first game. Fairfield posted three runs in the bottom of the first inning, thanks to a sophomore Doug Anderson (Randolph, N.J./Delbarton) RBI single up the middle to plate senior Andy Lynn (Montville, N.J./Delbarton) who doubled for the Stags first hit of the game.
Junior David Soucy (Glastonbury, Conn./Glastonbury) then singled past the Canisius shortstop to bring home Anderson, and senior Antuan Barnett (Bronx, N.Y./Rice).
It would remain, 3-0 in favor of the Stags until the bottom of the third, when Barnett scored on a throwing error, by the Canisius pitcher. Sophomore John Scaife (Ansonia, Conn./Ansonia) then singled home Anderson, and Soucy doubled to right field scoring Scaife for the Stags sixth run of the ball game.
Canisius would get on the board in the fourth, when Gabe Baida grounded out to short, to score Kevin Smith, who reached base with a double to right field, and later advanced to third on a throwing error.
The Griffs added another run via ground out in the top of the fifth inning, and another in the top of the sixth, when a Smith Sac-fly brought home Adam Montgomery.
Fairfield added three more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, and four in the bottom of the eighth thanks to a two-run homerun from Barnett.
Soucy was 4-for-5 with three runs batted in and a run scored with a double, and Barnett was 3-for-4 with four runs scored and three runs batted in with a homerun and a double. Scaife was 2-for-3 with two runs scored, and senior Mike Wray (Mahopac, N.Y./Mahopac) went 3-for-5 for the Stags.
In the nightcap, Barnett smacked a single to right field to bring home senior Nick Hudyma (New Britain, Conn./New Britain) who started the inning off with a single to left.
Fairfield then pushed a run across in the second, and broke the game open in the fourth inning, that was set up with some little ball, as Scaife's infield single, and Soucy's bunt single, put runners on base for senior Jim Sherdian (Carle Place, N.Y./Carle Place) who sent a pitch over the left field fence.
Hudyma was the next batter, and he roped a double to the right centerfield fence, and senior Sal Mancuso (Bethpage, N.Y./Bethpage) stroked a RBI single to right to plate Hudyma.
Soucy continued his hot hitting day in the nightcap going 2-for-3 with two runs scored, and Sheridan was also 2-for-3 with one run scored, and four RBI. Hudyma was 2-for-4 with two runs scored, and Mancuso was 2-for-4 with one run batted in. Scaife extended his hitting streak to eight games with the infield single.
The second MAAC series of the season for both teams will conclude tomorrow afternoon, with a nine-inning game, that is scheduled to start at 12 p.m. at Alumni Diamond.
