South Orange, N.J. – The NJIT baseball team earned its second road win over a BIG EAST foe this week, taking down Seton Hall, 9-6, on Tuesday afternoon at Mike Sheppard Sr. Stadium. Four different Highlanders recorded multi-hit games and three players drove in a pair of runs.
How it Happened
After Seton Hall took an early 2-0 lead, NJIT bounced back to tie the game in the fifth.
Mason Wolf singled and
Michael Doyle worked a walk with one out, setting the stage for
Mattie Thomas in a run-scoring opportunity. Thomas ripped a pitch to the gap in right-center, legging out a two-run triple to knot the game up at 2-2.
The teams would trade blows in the middle innings, with the Pirates retaking the lead with a run in the bottom of the fifth. An RBI groundout in the sixth from
Andrew Eppinger tied the game at 3-3, but Seton Hall answered again in the bottom half to take a 4-3 lead to the late innings.
In the eighth, the Highlanders posted a crooked number to take the lead for good. A single and two walks loaded the bases for NJIT with nobody out. After a fielder's choice cut down the first out of the inning at the plate,
Austin Francis ripped a two-run double to right to put NJIT up by one, 5-4. Later in the inning, Francis would show off his baserunning abilities by scoring from second on an infield single up the middle from Doyle.
NJIT added two insurance runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly from
Ray Ortiz and an RBI single from Wolf. Seton Hall was able to get those runs back in the bottom half on a two-run homer, but freshman
Eddie Werse slammed the door shut to pick up his first career save.
Up Next
NJIT stays on the road this weekend to face another BIG EAST foe as it opens a three-game series at Villanova on Friday at 3 p.m.
