By: By Michael L. Damon
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New London, CT— The John Jay baseball team picked up a pair of wins on Saturday to establish their first winning streak of the season as the Bloodhounds won a pair of conference games over Mitchell College, winning the opener 9-5 before taking the nightcap 6-5 in nine innings (seven innings scheduled).
John Jay, now 2-0 in City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC) play this season, never trailed in the first game. The Bloodhounds got two runs across in the top of the first to take a 2-0 lead.
The host Mariners got a run back in the bottom of the first to cut the lead in half. But John Jay scored again in the top of the third to go up 3-1. James Podlucky (Staten Island, NY, IMG Academy), who was 3-for-4 with two runs and two RBI, hit a single to score Edwin Hernandez to put the Bloodhounds up by a pair.
John Jay got two more runs in the top of the fourth to go up 5-1.
Mitchell came back with three runs in the bottom of the frame to get back to within one, but the Bloodhounds countered with three runs of their own to take an 8-4 lead.Xavier Perez (Bronx, NY, Manhattan Center) hit a bases loaded single with one out to score a pair of runs. Then Luis Guzman (Yonkers, NY, Mt. St. Michael's) recorded a single to bring home another run.
John Jay added an insurance run in the top of the sixth to go up 9-4, before winning 9-5.
Michael Colletta (Staten Island, NY, New Dorp)earned his first win of the season, allowing four earned runs and striking out seven.
In the second game John Jay platted one run each in the top of the first, second, third, fifth and sixth to take a 5-0 lead.
But with six outs to go, the John Jay lead quickly evaporated. The Mariners scored a run in the bottom of the sixth to pull to within four, and they proceeded to score four in the bottom of the seventh and tie the contest.
Mitchell got its inning started with the first two batters reaching base. Then the next batter unleashed a three run homer. And with still nobody out the Mariners were trailing 5-4.
The with one out, a triple put the tying run in scoring position before a single drove him in to tie the contest.
But the Bloodhounds pullout the hard fought win by getting a run across in the top of the ninth.
Johan Abad (Corona, NY, Flushing) picked up the win in relief after retiring Mitchell College quietly in the ninth.
John Jay returns to action on Tue. Mar. 24 at SUNY Old Westbury at 3:30 p.m.
