HOBOKEN, N.J. (March 8, 2015) – Five pitchers combined to strike out 18 hitters to lead the Stevens Institute of Technology baseball team past the City College of New York 7-4 on Sunday.

The Ducks opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning. After a pair of walks and a hit batter, sophomore Garrett Wells hit a grounder up the middle that the shortstop couldn't handle, scoring senior Brian Hennelly. Stevens tacked another run on in the bottom of the third as sophomore Nolan Bennett knocked in senior Nicholas Sieber who had reached on a walk.

Stevens took advantage of another Beaver throwing error, as senior Marc Calleo reached on a fielder's choice that plated Wells. CCNY sliced into the Ducks lead, scoring two unearned runs off an error and an RBI groundout by freshman Pedro Taveras. Stevens answered back with two of their own in the bottom half of the sixth off a pair of RBI singles from senior Gregg Nickels and junior John Sideris.

Junior Jayson Yano hit a sacrifice fly in the bottom of the seventh to score Hennelly and give the Ducks a 6-2 advatage. However the visitors cut the deficit in half, scoring on a wild pitch and an RBI single from junior Ariel Torres. Stevens added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth on a Bennett sacrifice fly. The Beavers brought the go-ahead run to the plate with two outs in the top of the ninth but freshman Andrew Hamel fanned Taveras to close the door on a CCNY comeback bid and earned his first career save.

Yano went 3-3 with a walk while Hennelly, Nickels, and Sideris all had multiple hit outings for the Ducks. Freshman Alex Detweiler and sophomore Zeph Walters combined to throw seven innings of two-hit ball while allowing only two hits, two unearned runs and struck out 13 Beaver hitters.

Sophomore Jhosse Estrella recorded two hits for CCNY while junior Sacha Urbach struck out three in four innings of relief.

The Ducks are back in action tomorrow to take on No. 24 Misericordia at DeBaun with first pitch scheduled for 4 p.m.

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