STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | The New Jersey City Universitybaseball team was late arriving back on campus for the athletic department's annual awards banquet on April 29. The Gothic Knights were busy breaking major team and individual records. For those in attendance at the banquet, it was worth the wait. NJCU amassed one of the greatest hitting performances in Division III history, annihilating the single-game school record for hits with 30 and senior shortstop/center fielder Michael Martucci (Bayonne, N.J./Saint Peter's Prep) went 5-for-7 to become the program's all-time hits leader with 197 as NJCU routed the College of Staten Island, 22-10.
 
Martucci entered the day with 192 hits, needed four to tie Rob Sumner's program standard of 196 (2005-08). The four-year standout, who earlier in the day earned All-New Jersey Athletic Conference honors, unleashed an offensive tsunami on the first place team in the CUNYAC conference, finishing a home run shy of a cycle. Martucci had three extra-base hits—two doubles and a triple— while scoring twice and driving in a pair. Furthermore,Martucci  extended his consecutive games on-base streak to 32.
 
Meanwhile, NJCU's 30 hits are four more than the previous program record of 26, set in 1991 against Hunter and matched in 2004. NJCU (15-20, won 2) had 13 extra-base hits in the game including 11 doubles. Both are also single-game school records and the 11 doubles are one shy of the NCAA game mark.
 
NJCU and Staten Island (21-12) also broke the NCAA Division III single-game record for doubles by both teams with 16 (11 NJCU, 5 CSI). The previous record was 15, set in 1999 and matches in 2005.

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