PACE GETS BACK TO WINNING WAYS BY DOWNING MOLLOY 5-0

PLEASANTVILLE, NY- The Pace University baseball team just needed some good old fashioned home cooking to get back on track as they beat the Lions of Molloy College 5-0 at Finnerty Field on Tuesday evening.

The win improves Pace to 3-4 on the season, while the loss drops Molloy to 6-2 for the year.

The first five innings of this game belonged to starting pitcher Chris Camastro (Lagrangeville, NY/Arlington) (Lagrangeville, NY/Arlington), and the outstanding Setters defense. Camastro pitched five shutout innings while only giving up four hits in a brilliant outing. Camastro also hit two batters, walked one, and struck out three in his outing. Camastro did have a lot of help from the Setter defense as he got two tremendous plays to help keep his shutout intact. The first play came when Camastro was in a jam in fourth with runners on second and third with two outs. A ball was hit hard up the middle and it deflected off second baseman JJ Conrad's (Hamburg, NJ/Wallkill Valley) (Hamburg, NJ/Wallkill Valley) glove in the direction of shortstop Andre Liscinsky (Trumbull, CT/Trumbull) (Trumbull, CT/Trumbull). Liscinsky dove, got up, and fired a bullet over to first base to get the runner by a step to end the Lions threat in the fourth. The second play came in the Molloy fifth as they had runners on first and second with two outs. Robert LaRusso hit a ball that was tailing towards the fence down the right field line when right fielder Patrick Chaputian (Sea Cliff, NY/North Shore) (Sea Cliff, NY/North Shore) came out of nowhere to make a great catch. Chaputian then fell over the fence out of bounds but still managed to hold on to the ball to end the Molloy threat, and get Camastro out of another jam.

The bottom of the sixth is where the Pace offense finally started to heat up on the cold Tuesday evening. Catcher Steven Sterlacci (Bohemia, NY/Connetquot) (Bohemia, NY/Connetquot) led off the inning with a walk. Conrad then singled to shortstop to put runners on first and second with one out. Left fielder Joe Cotone Yorktown Heights, NY/Lakeland) then came up with runners on first and third with two out. Cotone singled to center scoring Sterlacci to make the score 1-0 Pace. With runners now on first and second with two outs first baseman Vinny Dammann (Mullica Hill, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) (Mullica Hill, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) came through with a two RBI double to center field to make the score 3-0 now in favor of Pace.

The Setters went on to add two more runs in the bottom of the eight inning to make the score 5-0 which was all Pace closer Mike Sciarretta (Stamford, CT/Stamford) would need. Sciarretta pitched two and two thirds masterful innings giving up only two hits and striking out one to pick up his second save of the year.

Richard Sullivan (Norwalk, CT/Norwalk) (Norwalk, CT/Norwalk) picked up the win going one and a third innings to move his record to 1-0 on the year. Steven Stewart (0-1) picked up the loss for Molly going six innings and giving up three runs.

Pace returns back to action tomorrow as they play host to Concordia College right here at Finnerty Field. The game is scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m.