Baseball Advances to MAAC Championship with 11-6 Win Over Manhattan

Saturday, May 25

Staten Island, N.Y. / Richmond County Bank Ballpark

11:00 AM

Quinnipiac University

28-27

Manhattan

26-32

Manhattan

Quinnipiac

Photo by: Liz Flynn, QBSN

Baseball Advances to MAAC Championship with 11-6 Win Over Manhattan

5/25/2019 3:15:00 PM | Baseball

Box Score

Moskey Homers, Drives in Five RBIs as Bobcats Come Back to Defeat Jaspers

By: QU Athletic Communications

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – Brian Moskey (Higganum, Connecticut) continued his hot play Saturday afternoon as he went 3 for 5 with a home run and five RBIs to power the Quinnipiac baseball team into the MAAC Baseball Championship game for the first time in program history with an 11-6 win over the No. 5 seed Manhattan.

Quinnipiac's championship game appearance is its first since winning the Northeast Conference Championship in 2005, where the Bobcats advanced to their only NCAA Division I Tournament.

The Bobcats also climbed above .500 for the first time this season, improving to 28-27. Quinnipiac is just one win away from tying its program record for wins in a season set in 2007 and repeated in 2016.

Moskey came up big for the Bobcats multiple times Saturday as he belted a key solo home run in the bottom of the third inning to tie the game, 3-3. Moskey pulled the Bobcats within one with a two-RBI double in the fifth inning before grounding a two-RBI single through the left side of the infield in the sixth to give the Bobcats the lead for good.

Colin Donnelly (Flemington, New Jersey) was stellar out of the bullpen for the Bobcats as he came on in the sixth inning to pitched three innings in the outing. He scattered two hits and struck out three Jaspers to earn his fifth win of the season.

The Bobcats trailed by three runs in the game multiple times but were unphased as they battled back each time before taking the lead for good in the bottom of the sixth inning.

SCORE
Quinnipiac 11, Fairfield 6

RECORDS
Quinnipiac (28-27) | Manhattan (26-32)

LOCATION
Richmond County Bank Ballpark | Staten Island, N.Y.

QUINNIPIAC SCORING PLAYS
THIRD INNING

Trailing 3-0 at the start of the inning, Kevin Huscher (Middleboro, Massachusetts) singled to centerfield to put a runner on base.
With an 0-2 count, Liam Scafariello (Southington, Connecticut) blasted a two-run home run to left field to pull the Bobcats within a run.
After a groundout, Moskey drilled a solo home run to left field to tie the game.

FIFTH INNING

Manhattan gained another three-run lead but the Bobcats answered once again to tie the game in the bottom half of the inning.
Scafariello led off with a first-pitch bunt single to the pitcher and moved up to third on a single from Dylan Lutz (Denver, Colorado) to right field.
Moskey belted a double down the left field line to score both runners and pull back within a run.
Manhattan made a pitching change and Marrero flew out to right center and advance Moskey up a base.
Ian Ostberg (Northampton, Massachusetts) followed with a single through the right side to score Moskey easily from third.

SIXTH INNING

The Bobcats took the lead for good in the sixth inning with another two runs to make it 8-6.
Anthony Cruz (Burlington, Massachusetts) led off with an infield single to the pitcher and moved up to second with one out on a single to left from Scafariello.
Lutz walked to load the bases before Moskey pulled a single through the left side of the infield to score Cruz and Scafariello.

EIGHTH INNING

Quinnipiac tacked on three insurance runs in the inning to extend the lead to five runs.
Lutz doubled to right center with one out in the inning.
After a pitching change, Moskey was hit by a pitch to reach for the fourth time.
Marrero doubled down the left field line to score both Lutz and Moskey before Ostberg singled to put runners on the corners
Evan Vulgamore (Bow, New Hampshire) doubled through the left side to score Marrero and take an 11-6 lead

NOTES

The Bobcats advanced to their first MAAC Championship game in program history with their 11-6 win over the Jaspers
Quinnipiac will be making its first conference championship game appearance since 2005 when the Bobcats won the NEC Championship and advanced to their only NCAA Division I Tournament
Quinnipiac's 28 wins this season are the second-most in a season in program history and need just one win to tie the program record
The Bobcats are also above .500 for the first time this season and first time since early last season
Moskey had a season-high five RBIs and reached the mark for the third time in his career and homered for the third time this season
He also crossed the 100-RBI mark
With three hits and five RBIs, Moskey now has five hits and seven RBIs in the MAAC Tournament
He has scored 40 runs scored for the first time in his career and is now tied for sixth in program history with 134 runs scored (fourth in Division I program history) while he passed head coach John Delaney for seventh in program history with 209 hits
Scafariello blasted his 13^th home run of the season and 44^th of his career while he came around to score three runs in a game for the second time this season
He moved into a tie with Tim Binkoski '07 for fourth in Division I program history with 118 RBIs and is now tied for ninth all-time while his 116 runs score are tied with Vincent Guglietti '15 for 10^th in Division I program history
He now has four hits, five runs scored and three RBIs in the MAAC Tournament
Cruz picked up another two-hit game, including his 12^th double of the season, and scored a run for the Bobcats as he raised his batting average to .313 on the season
Lutz tallied a two-hit game with a double and two runs scored as he approaches career-highs with 39 hits and 25 runs scored this season
Donnelly was lights out from the bullpen as he pitched three innings for the seventh time this season
He struck out three batters to give him 41 this season and scattered just two hits to earn his fifth win of the season
As a pitching staff, Quinnipiac reached 400 strikeouts in a season for the first time in program history

UPCOMING GAME

The Bobcats advanced to the 2019 MAAC Baseball Championship with the opponent to be determined after Saturday night's game beginning at 7 p.m.
Sunday's championship game is scheduled for 12 p.m. from Richmond County Bank Ballpark.