Little Falls, NJ - Senior lefthander JEFF GOGAL (Kearny, NJ/Kearny) tossed a five-hit shutout as Montclair State won its second straight with a 6-0 victory over Rensselaer in the Red Hawks' 2004 home opener at Yogi Berra Stadium on Saturday afternoon.

Senior first baseman MIKE WEISS (Mt. Laurel, NJ/Lenape) drove in a pair of runs for MSU, which improved to 6-4 overall.

Gogal (2-1), who moved into fifth place on the MSU career wins list with his 23rd victory, allowed just five singles, struck out 11 and walked one as he recorded his fourth career shutout. Gogal did not allow a runner to reach third base in the contest. Last year, Gogal allowed four hits and two unearned runs in eight innings with six strikeouts as he throttled Rensselaer in an 8-2 win.

Montclair State scored what would be their only needed run in the fifth as sophomore MIKE HALLIGAN (Pompton Lakes, NJ/Seton Hall Prep) drove in PAUL SAMMARCO (Bergenfield, NJ/Bergenfield) on an RBI groundout. MSU then tacked on two runs in each of the sixth and seventh innings and rounded out the scoring with one in the bottom of the eighth.

Luke Calzone (Bethel, CT/Bethel) suffered the loss for Rensselaer. Calzone tossed 5.2 innings allowing three runs on three hits, while also striking out five and walking three.

MSU had just five hits in the contest, two coming from sophomore DANNY RODRIGUEZ (Monmouth, NJ/South Brunswick) and two from teammate Weiss. Sammarco provided the other single for the Red Hawks.
Mike Passante (Highland, NY/Highland) had two hits for R.P.I.

The two teams return to action tomorrow, Sunday, March 28th for two nine inning games beginning at 11:30am at Yogi Berra Stadium.