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St. Mary's City, Md. - The St. Mary's College
of Maryland baseball team snapped a 12-game losing streak against
Salisbury University Wednesday afternoon as the Seahawks notched a
2-1 Capital Athletic Conference victory over No. 2 Salisbury.
St. Mary's (11-10, 5-6 CAC) last win over the Sea Gulls came on
March 9, 2004 as the Seahawks posted a 7-4 win at Salisbury.
Today's victory snaps the home team's four-game losing skid as
well.
Junior RHP Jon Gill (Owings Mills, Md./Park)
threw a near complete game as Gill (3-5) pitched
8.0 innings and yielded an unearned run, scattering six hits with
three strikeouts and three walks. Gill faced
one batter in the ninth before freshman closer Matt
Siciliano (Ardmore, Pa./Lower Merion) came in to register
his fifth save of the season.
The contest remained scoreless until the fourth inning when the
Seahawks capitalized on a rundown play involving sophomore
shortstop Matt Baden (Sunderland, Md./Huntingtown)
and junior leftfielder Justin Rabon (Charlotte
Hall, Md./La Plata). Rabon led off the
inning with an infield single then Baden got on
base with a fielder's choice to third base, while
Rabon advanced to second on an error by the third
baseman as well as third on the same play.
Baden got caught in a rundown which allowed
Rabon to steal home in the confusion, while
Baden ended up stealing second.
St. Mary's struck again in the fifth with another rundown
play. Junior centerfielder Jacen Killebrew
(La Plata, Md./La Plata) connected on a two-out infield single,
advancing sophomore right fielder Bobby Corton
(Owings Mills, Md./Calvert Hall) to third who singled to right
field then advanced to second on a throwing error by Salisbury
senior RHP Eric Willey. With
Killebrew in a rundown, Corton
scored before Killebrew was tagged out to end the
inning.
The Seahawks had four hits in the game as
Killebrew led the way with a 2-for-3 effort, while
Rabon and Corton each had a
single and a run scored.
Salisbury (17-4, 5-3 CAC) came into today's game ranked No. 2 in
the D3baseball.com/NCBWA Top 25 poll and No. 19 in the
ABCA/Collegiate Baseball NCAA Division III poll.
The Sea Gulls avoided the shutout in the ninth. Senior
Cody Collins led off with a single followed by
senior Jordan Crystal's single. Then
sophomore Devon Quaglietta reached on an error by
Siciliano to load the bases.
Siciliano secured the inning's first out as he
struck out sophomore Brian Green before hitting
junior Trevor Cobb, allowing
Collins to score Salisbury's lone run. The
Seahawks then had a forced out at home for the second out before
Siciliano got senior Randy Boyle
to fly out to right field.
Willey (4-2) suffered his second loss of the
season despite striking out eight with no walks and two unearned
runs on four hits. Collins and
Crystal were both 2-of-4 at the plate.
St. Mary's will look to complete the three-game sweep this
Saturday as the Seahawks face Salisbury again in a CAC doubleheader
at Salisbury at 1:00.
