 La Salle outscores Fordham, 14-10, for Game 2 Win
April 19, 2008
PHILADELPHIA - The La Salle University Baseball team got production from all nine of its starters as each produced at least two runs in the game to help the Explorers take the second game of the three-game Atlantic 10 series versus Fordham, 14-10, at Hank DeVincent Field, Saturday. John Rickards led the charge with four runs batted in and two runs scored, while Zack Feierstein scored three times and also drove in two. The Explorers jumped out 6-0 after the second inning, as they scored two in the first and four more in the second, and never trailed in the contest. In the first, Rickards drew a two-out walk and on the first pitch to TJ Chism, stole second. The second pitch by Fordham starter Peter Kennelly was wild, and Rickards advanced to third. The Rams then called to their pen, due to an injury to Kennelly, and John Young finished the walk to Chism. He then stole second before RJ Hollinshead singled back through the middle plating both. A pair of errors helped
Feierstein reached on an error by the pitcher on a sacrifice bunt loading the bases for John Malloy. He singled through the right side to drive in one, Justin Handler walked to score another, and then Rickards and Chism hit sacrifice flies to center to put An RBI single by Handler in the fourth inning scoring Feierstein was sandwiched by three spots in the third and fifth by the Rams. Two errors in the fifth allowed two unearned runs to score, which pulled Fordham to within 7-6. Feierstein followed with an RBI single, Malloy doubled for his third hit of the day and Handler drew a walk to load the bases for Rickards once again. This time, he blasted a triple off the right field fence clearing the bases, then scored on Chism's single. For Rickards, it was his 16th career triple, moving him into the top spot all alone in career triples - he was tied with Steve O'Donnell (1986-89) at 15. He also moved into a tie for the eighth spot for all-time hits (194), seventh in total bases (324) and 10th all-time in RBI (110). Feierstein would add his second RBI of the day in the seventh, giving La Salle an eight-run lead with a sacrifice fly to center in the sixth inning. Fordham (20-17-1, 6-8 A-10) put four runs on the board in his first inning, but again a costly error allowed three of them to score. He finished the game allowing just one earned run in two innings and struck out one. Kennelly suffered the loss for the Rams, dropping to 1-2 for the season. Angelo Ponte threw an effective final 3.1 innings for Fordham, allowing just one run on four hits. Thanks to the production of the entire offense, La Salle scored 14 runs for the first time in an A-10 game since May 21, 2005 at |
