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In the opening day of their final series of the regular season, the Hofstra Pride baseball team split a doubleheader at home against James Madison University, winning the first game 4-1 before being edged out in the second match 2-3 on Friday afternoon, May 11.
Vito Friscia hit a base-clearing single in the bottom of the seventh inning that completed Hofstra baseball’s 6-4 comeback win over Northeastern University on Saturday afternoon at University Field.
The Hofstra baseball team defeated the College of William and Mary by a final score of 7-3 on the road Sunday to pick up their sixth straight victory. With the win, the Pride improve to 20-15 overall and 9-8 in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play while William and Mary falls to 15-28 overall and 3-14 in the CAA.
Parker Quinn’s bases-clearing double in the third inning helped charge the Hofstra baseball team past Manhattan College 15-4 Tuesday afternoon in Wappingers Falls, NY.
The victory extends the Pride’s win streak to four games, bringing them to 18-15 (7-8 CAA), and the 15-run barrage marks the highest scoring total this season.
Rob Weissheier capped off a last-inning rally with a two-run walkoff bomb as the Hofstra baseball team clawed back from a three-run deficit to knock off the College of Charleston 5-4 on Sunday afternoon, sealing the series sweep against the Cougars.
Coming into Saturday’s matchup with the Elon University Phoenix, the Hofstra Pride baseball team was on a three-game losing streak, having not scored more than three runs in those games. Those offensive struggles continued on Saturday at Elon, as Hofstra dropped their fourth consecutive contest by a score of 6-3.
Daniel Page doubled home Hofstra’s series-clinching runs in the Pride’s first conference series win of the season with a commanding 11-1 victory over the University of Delaware at University Field on Saturday.
The Hofstra baseball team couldn’t keep Manhattan College off the basepaths on Wednesday afternoon, walking 14 batters and surrendering six runs in the third inning on the way to a 12-4 loss to the Jaspers on a rainy day at University Field.
Hofstra baseball fell victim to Towson University’s late inning heroics in a 5-3 loss Saturday afternoon at Schuerholz Park.
The game came down to the final out with Hofstra leading 3-1 in the bottom of the ninth. Richie Palacios stepped up to the plate with the bases loaded and delivered a two-out walk-off grand slam.
The Hofstra baseball team wrapped up their opening series in Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) play with a pair of losses on Saturday to UNC Wilmington by scores of 5-3 and 6-2 after defeating the Seahawks 5-3 on Friday.
A two-run go-ahead double in the eighth inning from Rob Weissheier lifted Hofstra baseball to its eighth consecutive win Sunday 4-2 against University of Maryland Baltimore County in Maryland.
Hofstra baseball extended its win streak to seven games Saturday at the UMBC Tournament. In the first game, the Pride faced Mount St. Mary’s University (MD) and won 11-0 on a combined no-hitter. In the second game, Hofstra University defeated the University of Maryland Baltimore County and came out on top 9-6.
Behind the bats of Vito Friscia, Vinnie Costello and Rob Weissheier, Hofstra baseball swept Norfolk State Sunday in Virginia 8-6, extending the team’s win streak to five games.
Hofstra’s second win of the afternoon and fourth in a row came off of an inspired pitching performance from senior Matt Weissheier, as the Pride defeated Norfolk State 5-1 on Saturday evening.
