FLEMINGTON, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Senior right-hander WENDELL RODRIGUEZ (Ponce, Puerto Rico/County Prep) and sophomore righty ALEX WEINSTEIN (Colonia, NJ/JFK-Iselin) combined for a 10-inning, nine-hit shutout and New Jersey City University scored twice in the top of the 10th to outlast Centenary College (NJ), 2-0, in game one of a non-conference doubleheader on February 24 at Diamond Nation.
Based on existing program records, the contest appears to mark the first time in school history a game has gone to extra innings scoreless and it believed to be the first 2-0 victory in the program's annals.
NJCU is now 2-3 in the earliest five games played in program history; the loss dropped the Cyclones to 1-4. Centenary held a 9-6 advantage in base hits but all 15 combined hits were singles.
Rodriguez was brilliant, throwing 8.0 innings of shutout baseball, scattering seven singles with seven strikeouts and two walks over 127 pitches.
Weinstein, who started the game at first base, earned his first career pitching decision (1-0) by continuing the Gothic Knight dominance on the mound, allowing just two singles with a strikeout and walk over 29 pitches in the ninth and 10th innings. After running into trouble in the 10th, Weinstein produced a double play to second base to end the game.
Senior left fielder ANDREW RIVERA (Edison, NJ/Edison) was 2-for-5 with a run and one RBI, driving in the eventual game-winning run in the top of the 10th before scoring on a sacrifice fly by sophomore shortstop MICHAEL MARTUCCI (Bayonne, NJ/Saint Peter's Prep).
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