Game 1 / Game 2

Jersey City, NJ – Stockton University (12-14, 4-6 NJAC) concluded this week's run of four NJAC games in three days by splitting a doubleheader at New Jersey City (10-14, 2-8). The Ospreys were blanked 4-0 in the first game but came back to win the second contest 5-4.
 
Nick LaPorta (Pompton Plains/Pequannock) and Tyler Hobbs (Brick/Brick Memorial) each went 2-4 to account for four of Stockton's six hits in the opener. Two Ospreys also reached on errors but the squad left eight runners on base in the game.
 
Starter Dylan Warburton (Sewell/Washington Twp.) went the first six innings, allowing four runs (one unearned) on 10 hits with seven strikeouts but suffered the loss. Conlan Farrell (Bridgewater/Bridgewater-Raritan) pitched two scoreless innings with one whiff out of the bullpen.
 
New Jersey scored one run in the second inning, two in the third and one in the fifth. Stockton had runners on first and second with one out in the fourth and seventh innings but failed to convert both times and fell 4-0.
 
JJ Swentkowski (Egg Harbor Twp./EHT) paced Stockton in the nightcap, going 3-5 with a double, run and an RBI. Zach Gustites (Flemington/Hunterdon Central) went 2-4 with a run as well.
 
The Stockton offense broke out of its doldrums four runs on four hits in the top of the first. One-out singles by Mike DeSenzo (Pompton Plains/Pequannock) and then Swentkowski were followed by an RBI double from Joe Pipher (Brick/Brick Memorial). After Swentkowski scored on a fielder's choice, Garrhet Reedy (Tinton Falls/Monmouth) capped the big inning with a two-run double for a 4-0 lead.
 
NJCU came right back in the bottom of the first with two singles followed by three-run homer from Lenin Gomez that made the score 4-3. In the fourth inning, Gustites singled, stole second and scored the run that proved to be the difference on an RBI double by Swentkowski that upped the lead to 5-3.
 
The Gothic Knights got within one again at 5-4 in the sixth as Dan Berardi blasted a solo homer. Starter Brandon Perna (Cherry Hill/CH West) allowed just one baserunner over the next two innings. NJCU advanced the tying run to second base with one out in the bottom of the ninth but Perna slammed the door by inducing a lineout and groundout to end the game as the Ospreys prevailed 5-4.
 
Perna went the distance for his third complete game of the season and improved to 5-1. The righty allowed four runs on seven hits with five strikeouts on the afternoon.
 
Stockton will be off until Thursday, April 20 when the Ospreys visit Rutgers-Camden for an NJAC game at 3:30 p.m.