Jersey City, NJ – New day, different venue. Didn't seem to matter for the Montclair State baseball team. For the second consecutive day, the Red Hawks scored 20-plus runs, completing a sweep of their home-and-home series against New Jersey City with a 28-9 victory at the Thomas M. Gerrity Complex on Friday.
Junior rightfielder
RYAN MCKENNA homered and drove in seven runs while
MILES FEASTER went 3-for-4 with six RBI as MSU pounded out 29 hits, two shy of the single-game record set against Saint Peter's in 1974.
JOE GISONDA had a homer and three RBI with
SAM ANGELO adding a two-run shot.
As they did on Thursday, Montclair put together a solid first inning scoring five runs.
MICHAEL MURPHY drove in the first with an infield single and Feaster added two more on an opposite-field base hit. McKenna plated the final two with a single that scored
ANDREW OLLWERTHER and Feaster.
McKenna collected a second RBI in the third on a ground out before the Red Hawks blew the game open in the fourth with 12 runs, sending 16 batters to the plate. Feaster started the barrage with two-run single with McKenna unloading a three-run shot for a 9-0 lead.
JORDEN JURKIEWICZ had an RBI single and Ollwerther a run-scoring double pushing the lead to 12-0. Feaster, who has 11 runs batted in his last two games, made it four RBI in one inning with a two-run single.
JASON MOORE would drive home a run before McKenna brought in the final run giving him four RBI in the inning as well.
That would be more than enough for senior lefthander
BRIAN REISS, who worked the first seven inning. Reiss (2-1) scattered seven hits and allowed four runs (one earned) with five strikeouts.
Jurkewicz went 4-for-6 at the plate with Murphy and
ANTHONY GUARINO each registering three hits. Fourteen different Red Hawks recorded a hit in the game with 11 driving in at least one run.
The Red Hawks are back in action on Saturday, April 16 back at Yogi Berra Stadium taking on The College of New Jersey in an NJAC doubleheader set for 11:30 am.
Prior to the first game at 11:00 am, Montclair State will officially retire the uniform number of College Baseball Hall of Famer John Deutsch as part of its Alumni Appreciation Day.
