Baseball

                                                                                                                                                 Long Island, NY - St. Thomas Aquinas College collected a season-high 16 hits and defeated  Nyack  College Tuesday 7-4 in 12 innings at Baseball Heaven in Long Island, New York.  With the win STAC improves to 2-3 overall while Nyack falls to 2-1 overall. 

The Spartans rallied from a 4-1 deficit, scoring one run in the 6th, one in the 7th, and eventually tieing the game in the top of the 9th with an RBI single from freshman Dan McDermott. Della Monica relieved Scott Sadowski (2 scoreless innings) in the bottom of the 9th to preserve the tie and force the game into extra innings.  With the score knotted at 4-4 in the 12th inning, Vin Malzahn hit a 3-run home run to right center field to give STAC the 7-4 lead. It is Malzahn's second late inning home run heroics in the young season. He also helped to erase a 5-3 deficit with a 2-out, 2-run homer in the top of 9th against PACE this past Saturday (STAC would go on to lose that game in the 11th). Nyack could not answer back in the bottom of the inning as Della Monica struck out the side.

Malzahn went 3-5 on the night with a double and a homerun and 3 rbi's.  Dan McDermott went 3-4 with a double and 2 rbi's while Chris Zapata went 2-6, with 2 doubles and 3 runs scored.  Jonathan Della Monica pitched 3 2/3 innings of shutout, no-hit ball to get the win.  He retired 9 of the 11 batters he faced, striking out 6 and walking none. The Spartan defense was tight in committing no errors in the extra inning affair. Dan Marshall took the loss for Nyack.

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The Spartans return to action this Friday in Boca Raton, Florida