Matthew Batten Breaks Stolen Base Record As QU Baseball Splits With Iona

Friday, April 14

Flowers Field at City Park//New Rochelle, NY

12 PM

Quinnipiac University

10-20, 3-7

Iona College

11-12, 4-3

Quinnipiac

Iona

Matthew Batten Breaks Stolen Base Record As QU Baseball Splits With Iona

4/14/2017 4:51:00 PM | Baseball

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By: QU Sports Information

NEW ROCHELLE, New York – The Quinnipiac University baseball team split a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference doubleheader against Iona, losing 12-4 in Game 1 before rallying to take Game 2, 1-0, at Flowers Field at City Park in New Rochelle, New York. The Bobcats move to 11-20 on the year and 4-9 in MAAC play while Iona pulls 11-13 and 4-4 in the MAAC.

Quinnipiac stand-out Matthew Batten (Shelton, Connecticut) continued his trek to re-write the Quinnipiac record books with his 62^nd career stolen base in Game 2 of the doubleheader. Batten's 10^th stolen base of the season broke the career record of 61 held by Bob Bruzik '83. Batten also continued his ascension up the career hits chart with three more for the day – a two-hit outing in Game 1 and a singe in Game 2 – to give him 228 for his career, tying Vincent Guglietti '15, for fourth place all-time.

Game 1 Highlights

Batten was 2-for-5 with a RBI and two runs scored while Ryan Nelson (Knoxville, Tennessee) and Ben Gibson (Sagamore Beach, Massachusetts) also posted a two-hit day.
Joseph Burns (Shelton, Connecticut) sprayed a single the opposite way on a full-count offering to score Batten and give Quinnipiac a 1-0 lead. After Iona responded with a run in the bottom half of the inning, Gibson connected for his second home run of the season to give Quinnipiac a 2-1 lead.
Burns drove in Batten with his second RBI of the day to cut Iona's lead to 7-3 in the third before Batten drove in Palladino to make it 7-4 in the fifth. Iona was able to tack on five more runs to cruise to a 12-4 win.
For Palladino, the fifth-year Bobcat extended of his streak of games in which he reached base safely to 15 through Game 1, before he was unable to reach in Game 2. It stands as the second-longest on-base streak this season after Batten's 17-game streak earlier in the year.

Game 2 Highlights

Quinnipiac used a sacrifice bunt from Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) in the top of the 7^th inning to plate Ryan Nelson (Knoxville, Tennessee) and sneak out a 1-0 victory against Iona.
The Bobcats' Batten led the game off with a single, but Quinnipiac couldn't muster another hit until their final at-bats. Nelson then led-off the inning with a single before Burns bunted him over. A Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) single moved Nelson to third before Moskey's two-out bunt scored Nelson and gave Quinnipiac a 1-0 lead.
Bobcats' closer Mike Davis (Sandy Hook, Connecticut) converted on his sixth save of the season with a scoreless 9^th inning. Chris Enns (Canton, Connecticut) improved to 2-1 after holding Iona to four hits and no runs over six innings. Enns has now allowed just one earned run over his last 13 1/3 innings pitched.