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Brooklyn, N.Y.— The John Jay baseball team recorded 14 hits on Tuesday afternoon, and all nine members of the starting lineup had at least one hit, en route to scoring eight runs, but not quite enough as the Bloodhounds were defeated by Ramapo College 14-8 at American Legion Field.
With the loss, John Jay is now 6-22, while Ramapo improves to 11-10.
Xavier Perez (Bronx, NY, Manhattan Center) led that way with three hits in the game and was 3-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBI. Meanwhile fellow teammates
Edwin Hernandez (Brooklyn, NY, Murry Bergtraum),
Benjamin Beiro (Bronx, NY, Wesley Chapel) and
Luis Guzman (Yonkers, NY, Mt. St. Michael's) had two hits each.
John Jay fell behind early as Ramapo scored four runs in both the second and third innings, then one more in the fifth. John Jay's lone run early in the game was in the second as the visiting Roadrunners led 9-1 after four and a half innings.
Ramapo College led 11-2 after five and a half innings before the Bloodhounds mounted a late rally in the final three innings.
John Jay scored one run in each the fifth, sixth and seventh innings before tacking on three more in the eighth obligating Ramapo to go to the bullpen to pull themselves out of a jam.
The Bloodhounds started the bottom of the eighth by loading the bases. They got their first run of the inning when
Wilmer Chavez (Corona, NY, Queens Vocational) lifted a sacrifice fly to score Hernandez, who led the inning off with a single up the middle. Then Beiro scorched a single through the left side to score
Nick Catalano. After a pitching change, a single by Guzman brought in Perez and suddenly the Bloodhounds were down just 11-7.
But the Roadrunners scored three runs of their own in the top of the ninth to once again distance themselves.
The Bloodhounds scored one more in the ninth, but not enough. A single by Perez, his third hit of the game, scored Catalano, but not enough.
Taylor Perez (Staten Island, NY, Fossil Ridge) suffered the loss after going 5.0 innings and allowing nine runs, eight earned, on 11 hits.
John Jay returns to action on Wed. Apr. 14 at SUNY Old Westbury at 3:30 p.m.
