Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: With snow covering Fighting Tiger Field the SUN Cobleskill baseball team headed south to sunny Pennsylvania on Sunday afternoon to spit a doubleheader with the host Colonels of Wilkes University taking the first game 7-5 and then dropping the nightcap 7-6 in the season opener for both programs. With the split the Fighting Tigers open the year at 1-1 while the Colonels also open the season at 1-1 overall.
Trailing 4-3 in the top of the seventh inning in the opener, the Fighting Tigers erupted for four runs in the frame highlighted by a game tying one-out single by sophomore shortstop
Stephen Tejada, Queens, N.Y., High School for Construction, a go ahead run scored on an error on the second baseman off the bat of senior third baseman
Frank Leger, Bronx, N.Y., All Hallows High School, a run scoring single by sophomore catcher
Logan Hutter, Smithtown, N.Y., Smithtown West High School, and an RBI squeeze bunt by junior second baseman
David Flora, Windsor, N.Y., Windsor High School/Herkimer Community College, to take a 7-4 lead into the bottom of the seventh.
After Cobleskill junior reliever
Jason Treffiletti, Cohoes, N.Y., Shaker High School, allowed the Colonels to load the bases with no outs, junior right hander
Jordan Stone, Cohoes, N.Y., Cohoes High School, came out of the Fighting Tiger bullpen to retire the next three hitters to record the save and give the visitors the victory.
Offensively for Cobleskill,
Stephen Tejada went 1-for-4 on the day with a pair of RBI and a run scored while
Logan Hutter went 2-for-4 with a RBI.
Junior
Andrew Jarkow, Glen Head, N.Y., North Shore High School, recorded the win in relief going two innings allowing one earned run on one hit in relief of junior starter
Wyatt Palmer, Camden, N.Y., Camden High School/Cayuga Community College, who allowed two earned runs on four hits in four innings of work striking out one and walking one.
In the nightcap the Fighting Tiger once again trailed 4-3 entering the top of the seventh when the visitors rallied for three runs to take 6-4 lead moving ahead when right fielder
Logan Hutter singled home shortstop
Stephen Tejada.
However, several defensive miscues in the bottom of the frame set the stage for a Colonels walk-off victory making a hard-luck loser out of sophomore Caleb Clements, Prattsburgh, N.Y., Prattsburgh High School, who was touched for three runs in the inning.
Shortstop
Stephen Tejada once again turned in a solid effort at the plate going 2-for-4 with a RBI and a pair of runs scored from the lead-off spot while second baseman
David Flora went 2-for-3 with a double, a RBI, a stolen base and a run scored.
The Orange & Black will next be in action on Saturday March 5 and Sunday March 6 when they travel to Beverly, Mass. For a weekend series versus the Gulls of Endicott College starting with a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 12:00 p.m. followed by a solo contest on Sunday with first pitch slated for 1:00 p.m.
