Baseball Nips St. Thomas Aquinas On The Road, 3-2, To Reach The .500 Mark For The First Time This Season At 21-21

Pomona, N.Y.-Senior Tim Bickford (Wallingford, Conn.), who went 2-for-4 on the day with a double, singled to centerfield with no outs in the top of the ninth inning to score junior Dave Egeland (Toms River, N.J.) who led off the inning with a booming triple to dead centerfield to lift the University of Bridgeport baseball team to a 3-2 road East Coast Conference win over the host St. Thomas Aquinas College Spartans on Friday afternoon.  With the victory, the Purple Knights reach the .500 mark for the first time in 2015 at 21-21 overall, and UB is now 13-9 in conference play.  STAC is also 13-8 in the ECC, and the Spartans are now 23-15 overall.

Freshman PJ Martino (Medford, N.Y.) picked the win on the mound on Friday, working in relief of starter Rob Anderson (Stratford, Conn.), as he fired 2.2 innings of scoreless relief allowing only one hit with two K's and no walks.  Martino is now 2-3 on the season.

Bridgeport held two one-run leads on the day on RBIs by sophomore Dylan Steigerwald (Holbrook, N.Y.) and junior Alec Jannotta (Branford, Conn.), only to see the Spartans come back and tie the contest before Bickford's game-winning hit in the ninth.  Jannotta also had two hits in the game for UB.

The same two teams will continue their four-game, weekend ECC series with a doubleheader hosted by Bridgeport at West Haven High School on Saturday afternoon.  Action is slated to begin at 1:00 p.m.