Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 BRONX, N.Y. - The Lehman College baseball team erupted for a combined 28 runs on 28 hits, en-route to a season-opening sweep over NYU- Poly on Saturday afternoon.   The Lightning won the opener, 16-10, before blanketing the Blue Jays in the nightcap, 12-0.

Senior Edward Marrero (Brooklyn, N.Y./George Westinghouse) led the Lehman attack by hitting 3-for-5 with six RBI in the two games, while senior starter Freddy Parra (Bronx, N.Y./George Washington) pitched a complete game seven innings to grab the game two win.

Game 1
Lehman bounced back from three early deficits to defeat the Blue Jays, 16-10.  A seven-run third inning fueled the Lehman offensive, turning a four-run deficit to a three-run advantage, 12-9.  

The comeback was started on a sacrifice RBI by Miguel Nunez (New York, N.Y. / George Washington).  Junior Russbert Eugenio roped an RBI single, scoring Painter, which trimmed the Blue Jays' lead to 9-7.  The Lightning executed a double steal when Eugenio stole second and Waldo Acosta (New York, N.Y./Bread and Roses) scored the Lightning's eighth run.   

The Blue and Gold's hot inning continued on four consecutive RBI base-hits by seniors Marrero and Onix Mejia (Corona, N.Y./Renaissance Charter), juniors Alberto German (Dominican Republic/Cenapec), and Michael Laing (Bronx, N.Y./Manhattan Center).

The Lightning added four insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth.  Acosta doubled down the leftfield line, scoring Painter.  Nunez followed with a walk, stole second, and was brought home by a two-RBI single by Eugenio.  The final run of the contest came was scored by German on a Blue Jay throwing error.

Earlier in the game, Laing rifled a two-run homerun to left on his first pitch that he saw.

Sophomore starter Justin Moises (Bronx, N.Y. /John F. Kennedy) struggled in his season debut, laboring through three innings of work.  Laing relived Moises in the fourth and silenced the Blue Jays' offensive, striking out six, allowing two hits, earning his first win of the year. 

Game 2

Freddy Parra tossed a complete game two-hitter, as the Lightning won, 12-0.   He struck out six and walked two in seven innings pitched.   Offensively, sophomore Danny Rodriguez (New York, N.Y./Manhattan Center) batted 3-for-4 and Nunez went 2-for-2, with an RBI and two runs scored to lead Lehman.

Already leading 4-0 in the bottom of the fifth, the Lightning crossed the plate five times to break the game wide open.  German's two-RBI single to left was the big blow, plating both juniors Socrates Peralta (Dominican Republic/Morris), and Kevin Hernandez (Bronx, N.Y./DeWitt Clinton).  Nunez, who started the scoring with a RBI single, later scored on a Marrero sacrifice fly to left.

Lehman returns to action on Sunday, March 2 when they travel to Hoboken, N.J. to take on Stevens Tech in one nine inning game.  First pitch is slated for 1:00 p.m.