Offenses Flexes, Pirates Take Series From St. John's

Sunday, April 16

Queens, N.Y. / Kaiser Stadium

1 p.m.

Seton Hall University

18-16, 0

St. John's

18-15, 0

Seton Hall

St. John's

Pat D'Amico at the plate against Monmouth

Offenses Flexes, Pirates Take Series From St. John's

4/16/2023 5:37:00 PM | Baseball

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Queens, N.Y. - The Seton Hall baseball team matched its season high with 12 runs as it clinched its second BIG EAST series of the season with a 12-10 victory over St. John's on Sunday afternoon at Jack Kaiser Stadium.

Redshirt junior Jonathan Luders (Lynnfield, Mass.) matched his career high with four hits, sophomore Pat D'Amico went 2-for-4 with four RBI and sophomore Jedier Hernandez (Trenton, N.J.) hit his second home run of the season for the Pirates (18-16, 4-2 BIG EAST).

Graduate student Brennan O'Neill (Morristown, N.J.) earned the win on the mound after allowing only one earned run in 3.2 innings of relief work. Junior Jay Allmer (Asheville, N.C.) picked up his fourth save of the season after tossing two scoreless innings.

The win clinched Seton Hall's first series victory over St. John's since 2016 and its first series victory win Queens since 2012.

THE GAME:

It was a back-and-forth affair at the start as 16 combined runs were scored through the first three innings. Seton Hall alone loaded the bases in each of the first three frames.

Seton Hall took advantage of St. John's miscues in the top of the first inning where Red Storm pitching surrendered two walks and three hit by pitches that led to two Seton Hall runs. After St. John's went ahead 3-2 after one, the Pirates answered with three runs of their own in the top of the second on the solo home run by Hernandez and sacrifice flies from graduate student Alex Clyde (Old Tappan, N.J.) and D'Amico.

The Red Storm would tie up the score again at 5-5 in the home half of the second but The Hall posted a crooked number in the third. A sacrifice bunt put down by Luders forced an errant throw by the third baseman and it allowed a run to score. Later, two-run singles by junior Max Viera (Greenwood Lake, N.Y.) and junior Mark McNelly (Limerick, Pa.) gave Seton Hall a commanding 10-6 lead.

O'Neill kept the Red Storm off the scoreboard in the fourth and fifth innings and the Pirates added two more runs to their tally on a two RBI base hit off the bat of D'Amico in the top of the fifth. Despite the Red Storm pushing across four runs in the seventh that cut Seton Hall's deficit to two, 12-10, Allmer worked out of the trouble in the eighth before closing the door in the ninth.

THE NUMBERS:

The Pirates finished with 16 hits while the Red Storm posted 14 hits.
St. John's committed four errors that led to three additional Seton Hall runs.
The Seton Hall defense did not commit an error and turned a double play.
Clyde went 2-for-4 with three runs scored and an RBI.
Viera went 2-for-5 with two runs scored and two RBI.
Junior Devin Hack (Somerville, N.J.) also had a multi-hit game going 2-for-6.

THE NOTES:

The Pirates matched their season high with 12 runs scored and tied its second most hits in a single game this season with 16.
D'Amico's four RBI day matched his career high set earlier this season at North Carolina on Feb. 17.
Hernandez now has two home runs this season and in his career.
Allmer racked up his fourth save of the season and he entered the weekend ranked fifth in the BIG EAST in that category.
Luders matched his career high of four hits that was set last season against Rider on April 26, 2022.

UP NEXT:

The Pirates will travel to Staten Island on Wednesday to take on Wagner at 3:30 p.m.