Bronx, NY - The No. 3 seed The City College of New York was defeated by the No. 2 seed John Jay by a score of 9-8 at MCU Park (Coney Island, NY), the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. CCNY will now face No. 4 Baruch College in the first elimination game at 1 p.m. on Friday.
The Beavers struck early, as they scored two runs in the top of the first inning. Willis Fernandez (New York, NY) led off with a triple and scored on a wild pitch. A single hit by Ruben Angeles (New York, NY) scored Andrew Romanella (Allentown, NJ), who was hit by the pitch, to give CCNY the two run lead. John Jay would answer quickly with two runs of their own in the bottom half of the first, tying the game, 2-2.
In the third inning John Jay took the lead, scoring two runs. In the fourth CCNY’s Derek Faucher (Bradford, PA) took one swing at the bat to hit his first of two home runs in the game, a solo shot to left field that got the Beavers back to within a run. In the bottom half of that inning John Jay struck back and scored 4 runs to set the score at 8-3.
During the next three innings the Beavers scored five more runs to tie at 8-8, but didn’t manage to take back the lead. John Jay secured the game by scoring one more run in the bottom of the seventh.
For CCNY Raymie Fernandez (New York, NY) and Romanella had three hits apiece, to account for 6 of the Beavers 13 hits in the game. Michael Dominguez (Brooklyn, NY) and Faucher added two hits each.
For John Jay Wilmer Chavez and Edwin Hernandez led John Jay with three hits each, while Xavier Perez, Benjamin Beiro and Dennis Lopez had two.