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| Shortstop Cole Peragine |
Don’t
look now but the Stony Brook baseball team is one win away from a Super
Regional.
The
Seawolves forced a deciding game in the Coral Gables Regional with a 12-5 win
over Central Florida last night and will take on the Knights again tonight with
the regional title on the line.
That
win against UCF came after a thrilling 10-7 come-from-behind win over Missouri
State on Sunday afternoon eliminating the Bears from regional play. Down by
five runs on two separate occasions, Stony brook used a seven-run seventh
inning fueled by a Kevin Courtney three-run double, his second two-base hit of
the inning, to take the lead.
The
offensive fireworks continued later in the evening as the Seawolves erupted for
12 more runs. In its four regional games thus far, the Stony Brook offense has
scored 40 runs, connected for 47 hits and hasn’t scored fewer than 8 runs in a
game.
Media
attention has been great for the Seawolves down in sunny Florida. Newsday
has all the coverage from yesterday’s exciting action and a great
photo gallery from the first four days in Coral Gables.
Meanwhile,
the Orlando Sentinel put together a game story from last night and even
asks, “What’s a Seawolf?”
The
Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft begins this evening with the
first round. The Draft continues through Wednesday and chances are names will
be called from all over the America East baseball landscape.
You
can follow all of the draft happenings with the MLB.com
Draft Tracker.
Speaking
of professional baseball, Binghamton product Scott Diamond continues to dazzle
with the Minnesota Twins. The southpaw threw seven innings on Sunday against
the Cleveland Indians surrendering just three unearned runs to pick up his
fourth win of the season. Diamond lowered his ERA to a nifty 1.86 in six starts
for the Twins this year. Check out highlights from his outing, here.
