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Brooklyn, N.Y.— The John Jay College baseball team was eliminated from the 2010 Municipal Credit Union / City University of New York Athletic Conference baseball championship on Friday evening as the Bloodhounds lost to Baruch College in an elimination game 8-2 at MCU Field.
With the loss, John Jay is now 11-29 with one regular season game remaining, a match-up against St. Joseph's-Brooklyn on Wednesday. Baruch, the defending conference champions, will face the College of Staten Island at 1 p.m. on Saturday in a championship game, but will need to beat CSI twice to win the prize again.
John Jay, who lost to CSI in the winner's bracket game 8-5 earlier in the day, took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on a wild pitch that scored
Edwin Hernandez (Brooklyn, NY, Murry Bergtraum) from third.
But Baruch proceeded to score eight unanswered runs over the next four innings. The Bearcats scored a run in the second to tie the score, then put up three in the third, two in the fourth and two in the fifth to take a large lead.
The Bearcats tied the score when
John Avona laced a single to score
Peter Dinolfo in the top of the second. Baruch then took the lead with three in the top of the third. The latter two were unearned as a two-out error by the Bloodhounds allowed a pair of Bearcat runners to score.
A pair of RBI singles in the fourth, followed by another two in the fifth broke the game open for Baruch who maintained a comfortable lead.
Meanwhile Baruch starting pitcher
Kellin Bliss pitched solidly. He struck out eight John Jay batters en route to going the distance, and seven of the eight he struck out were looking, and five of them were over the last four innings.
The Bloodhounds only other run came in the bottom of the sixth, when
Steven Kendrick (Sacred Heart)was hit by the pitch with the bases loaded to force in
Xavier Perez (Bronx, NY, Manhattan Center) from third. But the Bloodhounds, who left nine runners on base, left the bases loaded as Baruch managed to maintain its lead.
Both teams failed to score over the final three innings in the contest.
John Jay had nine hits in the contest and was led by Kendrick who was 3-for-3, while Perez and
Wilmer Chavez (Corona, NY, Queens Vocational)had two each.
Baruch's
Benjamin Riofrio,
David Chrstnut, Avona and Dinolfo had two hits each as the Bearcats had 13 overall.
Kendrick suffered the loss after going the full nine innings and allowing eight runs (six earned) on 13 hits.
