13-Hit Attack Paces Lightning to First Win of 2012 Season

March 5, 2012

Box Score

BRONX, N.Y. - The Lehman men's baseball team started its season off on a positive note on Monday night, banging out 13 hits under the lights in a 13-4 drubbing of Yeshiva University at a frigid South Field.

Onix Mejia, Edwin Marrero, Frank Almonte and Stephen Valdes each collected two hits with Valdes adding three RBI. Both Marrero and Almonte scored three runs a piece.

Starter Francisco Sanchez went five innings for the win, striking out six, before handing the ball off to Aneudi Garcia, who also fanned six in his four innings of work.

Lehman got on the board right away in the bottom of the first inning, taking advantage of three Maccabee errors and a double by Mejia to plate four runs in the opening frame.

Sanchez set Yeshiva down in order in the top of the second and then watched as Valdes drove in two more with a single in Lehman's half of the second inning to put the hosts up 6-0.

The Lightning put the game away in its half of the third inning, once again taking advantage of some ragged play by Yeshiva. Freddy Parra reached on an error to begin the inning and then was driven home by a booming triple over the centerfielder's head by Mejia. Later in the inning run-scoring singles by Valdes and David Painter capped the five run frame that pushed Lehman's lead to 11-0.

A single by Parra in the seventh and a double by Michael Liang in the eighth capped the scoring for the Lightning.

While the Lightning offense was doing its best to put the game out of reach, the team flashed some leather in the field as well. In the top of the fourth, Lightning backstop Edwin Marrero made the defensive play of the game when he sprung out of his catcher's crouch and made an all-out dive to snare a mini foul pop off the bat of Yeshiva's Elie Baratz.

Its first win out of the way, the Lightning will wait eight days before taking the field again on March 14 against SUNY Maritime.

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