The Bearcats are playing their best baseball of the season at the right time.
They won for the fifth time in six CUNYAC contests after recording a 5-2 and 7-3 doubleheader home wins against Lehman College at Silver Lake Park in West Harrison, New York.
In the opener, two-time CUNYAC pitcher of the Week
Jeremy Ramirez recorded his fourth win of the season and
Benjamin Norwood notched his first intercollegiate save in the tough 5-2 victory.
Joseph Cocozza got the scoring going in the first game with an RBI double in their opening at-bat to score
Christopher Petrillo. They added two runs in the fifth via a Cocozza RBI single and a
Julian Diaz RBI walk. One inning later
Benjamin Luciano homered and Petrillo had an RBI single to lead 5-2.
Norwood pitched the final two innings of scoreless relief to finish the 5-2 victory.
In the second game, the bats were busy again early in their first at-bat behind another RBI double by Cocozza and sacrifice fly RBI by Diaz.
They scored again in the third on a
Joseph Bello RBI single and took a 5-0 lead in the fourth on Petrillo RBI double and again Cocozza RBI single.
Kenneth Pastrana smacked a sacrifice fly RBI in the fifth for a 6-0 lead.
The Lightning did not go away quietly and scored three runs in the top sixth to cut the score to 6-3.
Brendan Topper added an insurance run in the bottom sixth for the 7-3 score on a sacrifice fly RBI and Nicholas La Pointe pitched a quick 1-2-3 seventh inning with two strikeouts to seal the home victory.
Ryan Foerst earned his first intercollegiate win in middle relief with 5 strikeouts.
Cocozza, who on Tuesday recorded the milestone of 100 career hits, finished today's doubleheader batting 5-for-7, with four RBI, two doubles, and two runs scored.
Diaz had two total RBI as the Bearcats are now on a CUNYAC four-game win streak.
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