PLEASANTVILLE, N.Y. – Wrapping up a four-game series against the College of Saint Rose, the Pace University baseball team dropped a pair of contests to the Golden Knights on Saturday. The sweep shifts the Setters' record to 17-13 overall and 8-7 inside the Northeast-10 Conference.
Game One – Saint Rose 2, Pace 0
The Setters could only muster three hits in the opener as junior pitcher
Patrick Gleason (Valhalla, N.Y./Valhalla) served as a hard-luck loser on the mound.
Gleason allowed just the two runs on seven hits across seven innings of action. The right-hander has been Pace's best pitcher this season, currently sitting with an ERA of 1.88 and a strikeout total of 42 in 48.0 innings of work.
The Setters' offense featured just three singles off the bats of
Luke Jacobi (Edison, N.J./JP Stevens),
Matthew Rinaldi (Scarsdale, N.Y./Eastchester) and
Andrew Oakland (Holbrook, NY/Sachem HS East).
Game Two – Saint Rose 6, Pace 4
Up 4-1 through five, it was a four-run sixth from Saint Rose that doomed the Setters in the finale.
Jacobi and
Andrew Primm (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) each went 3-for-4 to lead the Pace offense while
Mitchell McCabe (Chelmsford, Mass./Chelmsford/ Bridgton Academy) hammered his team-leading eighth home run of the season.
Jacobi is currently Pace's leader in almost every other offensive category this season, including batting average (.384), RBIs (32) and runs scored (31).
Up Next
The Setters will host Southern Connecticut State for a four-game series next weekend (April 23-24).
