St. John's University Athletics
St. Johns Routs St. Francis, 15-3
4/25/2003 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
Graduate student Greg Holmes (Stony Brook, N.Y.) picked up the win, improving to 3-3 overall. He threw seven innings, yielding three runs (two earned) on five hits, with four walks and three strikeouts.
Senior Billy Graiser (Muttontown, N.Y.) went 3-for-6, with a triple and three RBI to lead the Red Storm. Junior shortstop Mike Rozema (Fair Lawn, N.J.) went 3-for-3, with two runs scored and one RBI, extending a hitting streak to 21 games in the process. He ranks fifth in the country with a .463 batting average.
Junior Anthony DeRosa (Salem, N.H.) went 2-for-3, with three runs scored and an RBI, while junior Jesus Bravo (San Jose, Calif.) went 2-for-2 with one run scored and one RBI, and senior catcher Asa Grunenwald (Boalsburg, Pa.), making his first start since disclocating his shoulder on April 4, went 2-for-3, with two runs scored.
The Red Storm gave Holmes all the support he would need with three runs in the first inning. Graiser reached on a leadoff single, moved to second on a bunt single from junior Derek Sullivan (Lincoln, Calif.) and scored when Rozema singled up the middle. Bravo drove in Sullivan with a sacrifice fly. Rozema, who had moved up to second on a bunt, scored on a sac fly from sophomore Blake Hershelman (Georgetown, Del.).
In the third, Rozema tripled to center and scored when DeRosa singled to right, giving St. Johns a 4-0 lead. Bravo followed with a single and Hershelman drove in DeRosa with a single to left. Freshman Greg Thomson (Levittown, N.Y.) then delivered a triple down the left field line, scoring Bravo and Hershelman, and giving St. Johns a 7-0 lead. Grunenwald hit an RBI double and sophomore Jim Martin (Norwood, Mass.) added an RBI single to round out the scoring.
The Red Storms lead increased to 10-0 in the fifth when Grunenwald doubled down the left field line and scored on Graisers triple to right. Three more runs came in during the sixth inning, with Graisers two-run single being the big hit.
St. Francis was able to touch Holmes for three runs in the sixth. Holmes loaded the bases after a walk to Anthony Guidice and consecutive singles from Joe DeSiena and Mike Molinini. Guidice scored on a passed ball, DeSiena scored when Anthony Esposito grounded out and Molinini came in on a sacrifice fly from Jesse Boles.
The Red Storm host BIG EAST rival West Virginia in a crucial BIG EAST series beginning on Saturday at noon at The Ballpark.
