Game story

This is my first game story of a Hofstra baseball game. I am pretty proud of it because I haven't been to a baseball game in years or ever written a game story.

Hofstra University let another win get away from them. The Pride was defeated, 6-2, by James Madison University in game two of a Colonial Athletic Association series at home this afternoon. This lose brings the Pride to 8-18 overall this season and 0-11 in the CAA.

“The 6th inning is the only thing that stands out in my mind.” said starting pitcher Nick Panzarella. The game had been scoreless until James Madison short stop, Mike Fabiaschi, hit straight up the middle allowing right fielder, Matt Browning, who was on third base, a chance to score a run. James Madison proceeded to score four more runs while rotating their entire line up though to bat. By the end of the sixth inning James Madison was up 4-0.

The Pride changed pitchers from Nick Panzarella to Drew Luedtke to Ryan Radke, during the inning to try to stop the string of hits. At the top of the eighth inning they changed to Brody Fontaine to finish the game.

Head coach, Chris Dotolo, admitted, “We didn’t swing well that’s for sure.” The Pride managed to score two runs in the seventh inning. But before that Elliot Hagburg was the only Pride player to have even made it on to a base, and that was in the fourth inning. The first of the Pride to score was Matt Prokopowicz. James Madison first baseman Steven Caseres dropped a pop-up in the infield allowing Prokopowicz enough time to reach home from second. Then Jeff Guthridge hit a single into left field, which lead to Hagburg, who was already on second base from an earlier error, to score Hofstra’s final run of the game.

James Madison scored one more run in the eight inning bringing the final score to 6-2. The James Madison pitcher Justin Wood completed the game and gave up only one hit.

Coach Dotolo was upset with the team’s performance. He feels that the biggest improvement that needs to be made is in the hitting area. His spirits are not completely crushed over this lose, “in all of the years that I have been coach a team has never been this far in the hole but we only have one way to go and that is up.”