St. John's University Athletics
St. John's University
Wagner
St. John's Baseball Pounds Wagner, 21-0
4/1/2004 12:00:00 AM | Baseball
April 1, 2004
Staten Island, N.Y. - St. John's scored 21 runs on 23 hits and six Red Storm pitchers combined to allow only four hits en route to a 21-0 win over Wagner at Bill Willets Field Wednesday afternoon. Fourteen players had hits for the Red Storm, including two players with three and four with two hits apiece.
The Red Storm jumped out to a quick 11-0 lead, scoring three unearned runs in the first, adding two more in the second six in the third.
In the first, junior P.J. Antoniato (Levittown, N.Y.) reached on an error, Jim Martin (Norwood, Mass.) walked and Joe Burke (Brooklyn, N.Y.) was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Redshirt freshman Chris Joachim (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) followed with a single to center, scoring Antoniato and Martin, and Burke advanced home on the throw.
In the second, sophomore Eddie Schultz (Flemington, N.J.) hit a leadoff single and moved to third on a double to right from freshman Eric Grabowski (Spencer, Mass.). A single to center from Antoniato scored both runners, giving the Red Storm a 5-0 lead.
In the third, Burke was hit by a pitch and senior Anthony DeRosa (Salem, N.H.) walked before Schultz hit a line drive over the left field wall for his third home run of the season. Grabowski walked, stole second, moved to third on a single from Rozema and scored on a fielding error. A double from Antoniato moved Rozema to third and both runners scored when Martin singled up the middle, giving St. John's an 11-0 lead.
The Red Storm loaded the bases in the fourth after singles from Burke and DeRosa and a walk to Grabowski. Rozema singled to right-center, scoring two runs, and Antoniato followed with a double down the left field line, extending the Red Storm lead to 14-0.
Junior Blake Hershelman (Georgetown, Del.) hit a leadoff double in the fifth, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Burke's groundout. The Red Storm added five more runs in the ninth. Sophomore Ken Devenney (Philadelphia, Pa.) hit a leadoff singled, advanced to second on a passed ball and to third when senior Derek Sullivan (Sacramento, Calif.) reached on a throwing error. Freshman Ryan Crespi (Sparta, N.J.) loaded the bases when he beat out an infield hit to third and junior Matt Robinson (Sacramento, Calif.) followed with a blast to the wall in center, plating two runs with a double. Freshman Brendan Monaghan (Wayne, N.J.) then hit a double to right, scoring two more runs. Monaghan scored on a single up the middle from Devenney to close out the scoring.
St. John's freshman Anthony Sullivan (Arlington, Mass.) started and went four innings, allowing no runs on two hits with four strikeouts in his first collegiate win. Four other pitchers - senior Joe Reid (Rutherford, N.J.), redshirt freshman Justin Muir (Plainsboro, N.J.), sophomore Craig Hansen (Glen Cove, N.Y.), senior Geno Orsogna (Norfolk, Mass.) and freshman Michael Maynard (Staten Island, N.Y.) - each pitched one inning of scoreless relief.
Antoniato finished 3-for-4 with two doubles, two runs scored and three RBI, while Schultz went 3-for-6 with a home run, two singles, two runs scored and three RBI. Rozema drove in two runs with two singles, Crespi added two singles, Martin drove in two runs with a pair of singles and Devenney had two singles, scored a run and drove in one.
The 21 runs and 23 hits were the most for a St. John's team since beating Georgetown, 23-2 on 28 hits, on March 27, 1999.
St. John's returns to action this weekend, hosting BIG EAST rival Virginia Tech (12-10, 0-3) in a three-games series. The Red Storm and Hokies will play a doubleheader on Saturday at The Ballpark, beginning at noon.
