Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – The Saint Michael's College baseball team began a six-game road trip to Florida with a doubleheader against Embry-Riddle (Fla.) Aeronautical University on Saturday at Sliwa Field, dropping game one, 15-4 in eight innings, and game two, 18-4 in seven innings. The Eagles received votes toward the most recent National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association (NCBWA) South Region poll.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (1-5), Embry-Riddle (16-6)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• The teams faced off for the first time in 31 years, last meeting in 1994.
• Senior Evan Balian (Lynnfield, Mass./Lynnfield) hit his eighth career home run, slotting him into a tie with five others for fourth in program history.
• Balian recorded three hits during the twinbill, putting his career total to 105, tying for 13th in program history with Tyler Wild '14.
• First-years Jerry Guzman (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Brunswick School) and Henry Rogers (Abington, Mass./Abington) both picked up their first career hits.

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Balian, 1-for-2, 1 HR, 2 RBI, 2 BB
• Guzman, 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 2B
• Senior Terence Moynihan (Stoneham, Mass./Saint Mary's), 1-for-3, 1 R
• Junior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School), 2-for-4, 1 R
• Sophomore Colin Kinsella (Winthrop, Mass./Winthrop), 1-for-3, 1 RBI, 1 2B
• Sophomore Jack Pattison (Vernon, Vt./Vermont Academy), 2-for-4, 1 RBI
• Junior Keegan Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 4.1 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 3 BB, 3 K, loss

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Graduate student Max Kops, 2-for-4, 3 R, 1 RBI, 1 HR, 1 HP
• Graduate student AJ Marinello, 2-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, 1 BB, 1 2B
• Redshirt senior Alex Imposimato, 3-for-5, 1 R, 3 RBI, 2 2B
• Senior Timo Aracena, 3-for-4, 2 R, 1 2B, 1 HP
• Senior Elias Campbell, 1-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 2 BB, 1 HR
• Redshirt sophomore Noah Clymer, 2-for-4, 3 R, 4 RBI, 1 BB, 1 HR
• Sophomore Drew Clymer, 1-for-5, 1 R, 2 RBI, 1 HR
• Redshirt junior Tristan Harley, 6 IP, 6 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, win

 THE ACTION

• Balian gave the Purple Knights a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a home run to straight-away center for his eighth career long ball, tying him for fourth in program history.
• Noah Clymer singled with one out in the bottom of the second inning before Drew Clymer hit a two-run home run to left field to tie the game.
• Noah Clymer gave the Eagles the lead in the bottom of the third on an RBI groundout to second to score Kops and make the score 3-2.
• Pattison tied the game at three in the top of the fifth inning on a two-out single to the right center field gap to score Moynihan, but the Eagles used a four-run home half to jump to a 7-3 lead. Imposimato's two-out double score the final three runs.
• The Eagles scored two more runs in the bottom of the sixth inning on a long ball from Campbell and an RBI double from Marinello.
• Guzman and Kinsella knocked back-to-back doubles in the seventh to make the score 9-4 in favor of the Eagles.
• Embry-Riddle scored five runs in the bottom eighth inning to end the game.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Balian, 2-for-4, 2 RBI, 1 R, 1 2B
• Cavossa, 1-for-2, 1 BB
• Guzman, 2-for-3, 1 RBI
• Rogers, 1-for-1
• Senior Filly Santos (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic/Park West), 1-for-3, 1 R
• Sophomore Tad Giardina (Reading, Mass./Saint Mary's), 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 RBI
• Sophomore Dom Tetta (East Northport, N.Y./Northport), 1-for-2, 1 R, 1 BB
• Junior Colin Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan), 2.2 IP, 8 H, 5 ER, 6 K, loss
• Sophomore Brad Alexander (Ridgefield, Conn./Trinity-Pawling School), 1 IP, 2 H, 0 R in relief

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Dylan Clymer, 3-for-3, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR
• Noah Clymer, 2-for-4, 3 R, 2 RBI, 1 HR
• Kops, 3-for-5, 2 R, 4 RBI, 1 3B, 1 HR
• Graduate student Matthew Coker, 2-for-4, 2 R, 4 RBI, 1 2B, 1 HR
• First-year Gregory Bruno, 5 IP, 8 H, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K, win

THE ACTION

• Kops hit a solo home run in the first inning before the Eagles put up 10 runs in the third inning to take a 11-0 lead.
• The Purple Knights scored four in the top of the fifth, with Balian driving home two and Giardina and Guzman adding one apiece.
• The Eagles tallied five in the home half of the fifth and two more in the bottom of the sixth to pull away.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Sunday vs. University of Minnesota Duluth, 3:45 p.m. doubleheader in Auburndale, Fla., during RussMatt Central Florida Invitational.