Baseball Swept by Richard Stockton

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- The Bridgewater State University baseball team dropped a pair of games to Richard Stockton College on Wednesday in Vero Beach, Florida.

Stockton won the first game, 7-5, and completed the sweep with a 19-2 victory in the nightcap.

The Ospreys improve to 5-1 with the sweep of the twinbill, while the Bears slip to 2-4.

Richard Stockton 7, Bridgewater State 5

Mike Bush went 3-for-4 with a double, two stolen bases and scored a pair of runs to pace Stockton's 13-hit attack.

Keith Tappert, George Eisenhart, Mark Jankowski and Andy Oliver added two hits apiece for the Ospreys.

Aidan Ryan picked up the win in relief of Mike Bergin.  Ryan (1-0) allowed two runs on three walks in an inning and two-thirds. Bergin worked the first 3 2/3 innings giving up three runs on seven hits with two walks and a pair of strikeouts.

Matt Poinsett picked up his first save of the season as he recorded the final five outs including a pair of strikeouts.

Nicholas White and Kevin Sugermeyer each went 2-for-4 to lead the BSU offense. The Bears banged out ten hits and were issued five walks but left nine runners on base.

Down 6-1, the Bears rallied for two runs in the fourth inning and two more in the sixth to make it a 6-5 game.

White singled home Keaghan Austin-MacInnis who double to lead off the fourth.  White would later come around to score on Jacob Souza's RBI single.

In the fifth, run-scoring singles by Sean Brooks and John Mulready pulled Bridgewater to within one.  The Bears had the tying run on second with two outs, but Poinsett got a big strikeout to end the threat.

The Ospreys tacked on an insurance run in the bottom of the sixth as Bush single, stole second and scored on Eisenhart's RBI single.

Poinsett worked around a one-out single in the seventh to secure the win for the Ospreys. 

Richard Stockton 19, Bridgewater State 2

Eisenhart led a 25-hit onslaught in the nightcap by going 5-for-6 with three runs and two RBI. Matt Mangarella was 3-for-5 with three RBI and two runs while Brett Solomen added three hits, two runs and two RBI. Twelve Ospreys recorded at least one hit in the game.

Stockton started quickly with four runs on six hits in the top of the first and broke the game open with seven more tallies on eight hits in the second frame for an 11-0 lead. The Ospreys later tacked on eight more runs in the last four innings for the 19-2 final score.

Starter James DiPiazza tossed the first four innings for the win, allowing one run on two hits with two strikeouts.

Brooks went 2-for-3 at the plate in game two to lead the BSU offense.  He plated Souza with an RBI double in the third.  Devin Sanders knocked in the Bears' second run with an RBI single in the fifth.