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Brooklyn, NY –
Edwin Hernandez (Brooklyn, NY, Murry Bergtraum) ripped a two-out RBI single to center in the bottom of the seventh scoring
Steven Kendrick (Bronx, NY, Sacred Heart) to break an 8-8 tie, and the Bloodhounds bullpen prevailed over the final six outs of game two of the 2010 CUNYAC / Municipal Credit Union Baseball Championship as #2 seed John Jay College of Criminal Justice defeated #3 The City College of New York 9-8 at MCU Park (Coney Island, NY), the home of the Brooklyn Cyclones. John Jay will now play at 4 p.m. in a winner's bracket game against #1 seed the College of Staten Island, while CCNY will face Baruch in the first elimination game at 1 p.m. on Friday.
In a game that had lots of hitting (John Jay had 14 hits, while CCNY had 13) CCNY got an early lead by scoring a pair of runs in the top of the first. Leadoff hitter
Willis Fernandez led off the game with a triple to left field and scored on a wild pitch. Moments later a single by
Reuben Angeles scored
Andrew Romanella who was hit by the pitch.
But John Jay responded with a pair of runs in the bottom half. A triple by
Xavier Perez (Bronx, NY, Manhattan Center) scored Hernandez. Then
Wilmer Chavez (Corona, NY, Queens Vocational) recorded his team-leading seventh sacrifice fly of the season to score Perez.
The Bloodhounds then took the lead with two runs in the bottom of the third. CCNY committed two errors in the inning to help John Jay's cause. Chavez got his second RBI of the game by registering a single through the left side to score Hernandez for the second time in the contest, before a single to right field by
Benjamin Beiro (Bronx, NY, Wesley Chapel) brought home
Nick Catalano (Staten Island, NY, St. Peter's Boys) who had reached on an error.
The Beavers got back a run with one swing of the bat when
Derek Faucher hit his first of two home runs in the game, a solo shot to left field got CCNY back to within a run.
John Jay then put up four in the bottom of the fourth to grab an 8-3 lead. Chavez recorded his third and fourth RBIs of the game in that inning with a double to left center that scored Perez and Catalano.
But CCNY scored five unanswered over the next three innings to tie the score. The Beavers got a run in the fifth and sixth before knocking in three in the seventh and in the process knocked John Jay starter
Chris Camacho (Maspeth, NY, HS of Applied Communications) out of the game. Faucher's second round tripper of the contest came in the sixth inning.
In the seventh, CCNY scored three runs on four hits. Camacho retired the first two batters of the inning, but the Beavers mounted a two-out rally to even the score. But John Jay reliever
Hector Class (Brooklyn, NY, Liberty (FL)) got the Bloodhounds out of the inning, while CCNY were stranded with the bases loaded.
John Jay's run in the seventh proved to be enough as Class got out of a bases loaded jam in the eighth to preserve the lead before giving way to Kendrick who pitched a 1-2-3 ninth to earn the save.
“We are hitting better now then we have all season and this is a great time to start hitting,” said John Jay head coach
Dan Palumbo. “The guys have worked hard all season and have never stopped believing in themselves whenever times have gotten tough, and hopefully the self confidence will lead to positive results all tournament long.”
Chavez and Hernandez led John Jay with three hits each, while Perez, Beiro and
Dennis Lopez (Selden, NY, Newfield) had two.
CCNY's Fernandez and Romanella had three hits a piece and both scored twice, while
Michael Dominquez and Faucher had two.
