First Game Box Score

Second Game Box Score

POUGHKEEPSIE, NY – (April 25, 2008) -- Junior Tyler Bellstrom (Townshend, VT/Leland & Gray Union) helped Vassar shake off a tough 20-3 loss, going the distance in a 8-3 nightcap win as the Brewers split a Liberty League doubleheader with St. Lawrence on Friday at Prentiss Field.

Vassar is now 8-17, 3-13 in league play, while St. Lawrence stands at 15-13, 8-7. The two teams face off for another doubleheader at Prentiss Field on Saturday.

Game One

The Saints scored at least one run in all but the final inning in the first seven-inning game. St. Lawrence took a 10-0 lead after knocking in five runs on five hits in the third inning. The Saints also had a big sixth inning; ignited by Kirt Broedel's (Waterville, NY/Waterville) leadoff triple to center field, St. Lawrence plated six runs.

Vassar picked up all its runs in the fifth inning, scoring three on three hits. Adam Murphy (Brooklyn, NY/Midwood) had a single, David Ringold (Seattle, WA/Ballard) picked up a ground-rule double after his shot to leftfield bounced over the fence, and Ari Glantz (Cambridge, MA/Cambridge Rindge & Latin) knocked a two-run triple into center field.

Murphy led the Brewer bats going 3-for-3 at the plate while Glantz went 2-for-4 with two RBI.

The Saints had 20 hits on the day, led by Joel Kocan (Liverpool, NY/Liverpool). The senior catcher went 5-for-6, including two doubles, with five RBI and three runs scored. Tim Harris (Marcellus, NY/Marcellus), Andrew Ford (Fabius, NY/Fabius-Pompey), Ryan Duff (Concord, MA/Cushing Academy), Charlie Cannan (Buffalo, NY/Nichols School), and Joe Shehata (Orangeburg, NY/Pearl River) all had two hits apiece with Ford and Duff knocking out doubles, and Broedel and Shehata both hitting triples.

Steve Bodnar (4-2) picked up the win, allowing one earned run on seven hits, with eight strikeouts and just one walk. Dan Orme (0-6) (Cambridge, MA/Cambridge Rindge & Latin) took the loss for the Brewers.

Game Two

A strong performance from Bellstrom (3-2) in the nightcap made for a much different game. Bellstrom pitched the complete game, scattering nine hits to allow three earned runs. He struck out six and walked one.

After both teams went scoreless in the first two innings, St. Lawrence got on board first in the third, scoring two runs on three hits. Shehata, Harris, and Cannan singled, with Ford and Duff each picking up an RBI.

The Brewers responded in the bottom of the inning with four two-out runs. Joe Castilla (Weston, FL/Archbishop McCarthy) started things off with a base hit to center field. A Glantz single up the middle advanced Castilla to third and Mike Murn (Huntington, NY/Harborfields) brought both runners home with a single to left. Mike Plude (Shelton, CT/Notre Dame Catholic) reached on an error, and another error scored Murn and Plude with what would prove to be the winning run.

The Saints threatened with a run in the top of the sixth, but the Brewers countered with two runs in both the sixth and seventh innings. Bellstrom took the Saints down in order in the seventh and eighth innings and, with runners on the corners in the ninth and two outs, picked up his third win of the season in style, sending the final batter to the bench swinging.

Castilla led the Brewers at the plate, going 3-for-5 with one run scored. Murn had two hits and two RBI while Glantz and Charlie Gray (Upper Montclair, NJ/Montclair Kimberley) each recorded two hits and one RBI.

Shehata went 3-for-5 with an RBI for the Saints and Cannan chipped in with two hits. Jeff Graceffo (1-2) took the loss.