By: By Michael L. Damon
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Port Charlotte, Fla. — The John Jay baseball team lost to John Carroll University, 11-4, on Friday morning at the Snowbird Classic in Port Charlotte, Florida.
The Blue Streaks, who defeated the Bloodhounds, 19-1, in their previous contest earlier in the week, platted three runs in the top of the first inning to take the early advantage.
The score remained that way into the third inning, when the Bloodhounds scored their first run of the afternoon. John Jay mounted a rally with two outs and nobody on base. And John Jay platted its run without the ball ever leaving the infield.
Starting pitcher,
John Massoni (Staten Island, NY, St. Peter's Boys)started the rally with an infield single. Fellow teammates, first baseman
Luis Guzman (Yonkers, NY, Mt. St. Michael's) and shortstop
Xavier Perez (Bronx, NY, Manhattan Center)followed suit to load the bases. The next batter, third baseman
Benjamin Beiro (Bronx, NY, Wesley Chapel) colleted John Jay's fourth consecutive infield single which scored Massoni from third to get the Bloodhounds on the board. But John Carroll averted further damage as the Bloodhounds stranded the bases loaded.
John Carroll added three more runs in the top of the fourth and a two more in the top of the fifth to take an 8-1 advantage.
The Bloodhounds then cut the lead in half in the bottom half of the frame with three runs. This time with no outs, Massoni, Guzman and Perez registered singles, and to the outfield as Massoni hit it to centerfield, while Guzman's went to left and Perez's to right. Perez's scored Massoni for John Jay's first run of the inning.
The next batter, Beiro, grounded out for the first out of the inning, but it scored Guzman from third. Then with one out, catcher
Steven Kendrick grounded out to shortstop to score Perez and John Jay was within four.
But John Jay never got closer and the Blue Streaks registered another run in the seventh and two more in the ninth to round out the scoring.
John Carroll out hit the Bloodhounds 17-10. John Jay got three hits from Perez who was 3-for-4 with a run and an RBI, while Massoni and Guzman had a pair of hits each. Beiro had two RBIs for John Jay on Friday.
“The guys are playing very well. They have been playing some of the best teams in the nation and have not backed down or are they giving up,” said John Jay head coach
Dan Palumbo. “I am very excited and extremely optimistic that when we come back north we will ready to face our conference teams as well as the other teams we are scheduled to play.”
Massoni suffered the loss going five innings and allowing eight runs (four earned) on 10 hits.
John Jay returns to action on Sat. Mar. 7 against Bluffton College at 9 a.m.
