Hackettstown, N.J.: The SUNY Cobleskill baseball team opened the 2022 campaign on Friday by splitting a pair of games with the host Cyclones Centenary University at the Our Diamond of Dreams in non-league action taking the first game by a score of 7-2 then dropping the nightcap 7-1 to the host in the first two games of a weekend four-game road trip. With the split the Fighting Tigers open the season with a 1-1 overall record while the Cyclones are now 1-3 overall on the season.
Cobleskill took control of the contest in the top of the third inning erupting for four runs in the frame highlighted by a two-run homer off the bat of senior shortstop
Eddy Garcia, Bronx, N.Y., World View High School, from which they never looked back.
Senior starter
Jarrod Williams, Baldwinsville, N.Y., C.W. Baker High School/Finger Lakes Community College, allowed one earned run in four innings to record the win with help from relievers sophomore
Shane Ladden, West Boylston, Mass., West Boylston High School, and sophomore
Andrew Jarkow, Glen Head, N.Y., North Shore High School, combined to work three scoreless innings with the help of a Fighting Tiger defense that turned three double plays in the contest.
Offensively
Eddy Garcia led a quartet of Cobleskill players who posted multiple hit efforts going 2-for-4 with a homer, two RBI, a double and a stolen base, senior second baseman
Chris Kordziel, Rotterdam, N.Y., Notre Dame Bishop-Gibbons High School/Hudson Valley Community College, who was 2-for-4 with a double and a RBI, freshman centerfielder
Trevor Grieb, Red Hook, N.Y., Red Hook High School, who was also 2-for-4 with a double and a pair of RBI and freshman
Logan Hutter, Smithtown, N.Y., Smithtown High School, who was 2-for-3 with two runs scored, a double and a stolen base.
In the nightcap, the home team pounded out 13 hits including six for extra bases in a 7-1 route of the Orange & Black as Cyclones starter sophomore Nick Guiro, Brick, N.J., Brick Township High School, went the distance to record the win allowing only one earned run on three hits while striking out nine and walking none.
Cobleskill second baseman
Chris Kordziel was the visitors lone bright spot going 1-for-3 with the team's lone RBI and a stolen base in the loss.
The Fighting Tigers and Cyclones will close out the series on Saturday with a pair of games at Centenary's Our Diamond of Dreams beginning at 11:00 a.m.
