Baseball Seniors Lead Rams to Win Over St. Bonaventure

Bronx, N.Y. – (May 14, 2022) – If you had the class year of "senior" next to your name on Saturday for Fordham baseball, you most likely had a pretty good day.  The team honored the class of 2022 before the game and the class showed out in game, combining for seven hits, six runs scored, and eight RBI in an 11-7 win over the St. Bonaventure Bonnies at Houlihan Park.
 
The fireworks started in the second inning, when Fordham scored three times to take the initial lead.  After walks to seniors Andy Semo and Jack Harnisch, the duo advanced on a ground out with Semo scoring on another ground out by senior Richard Grund for a 1-0 lead.  T.J. Wachter and senior Jake Guercio followed with back-to-back RBI-doubles to make it 3-0.
 
St. Bonaventure answered back with five runs in the third to take a 5-3 lead, highlighted by a two-run triple by Jake Biscailuz.
 
Fordham knotted the game at five in the bottom of the fourth, as Harnisch walked for the second time and came in to score on a two-run home run to left by senior Jason Coules, his second of the season.

 
The Bonnies regained the lead in the top of the fifth at 7-5, getting a sacrifice fly from Chet Szablewski and an RBI-single by Biscailuz for the two runs.
 
The Rams continued the seesaw affair with three runs in the bottom of the frame, making it an 8-7 game.  Harnisch picked up a two-run double to tie the game, while Grund put Fordham back ahead with an RBI-single.
 
Fordham then tacked on a run in the sixth, seventh, and eighth innings to build the lead to 11-7.  C.J. Vazquez plated David Kale with a sacrifice fly in the sixth with Guercio having an RBI-single in the seventh.  The final run came on a wild pitch in the eighth.
 
The offensive output was enough for Fordham reliever Joseph Quintal, who pitched the final five innings to record his second win of the season.  He allowed just one run on six hits with five strikeouts in relief of starter Cian Sahler.  Sahler went four-plus innings, allowing six runs on eight hits.
 
At the plate, Zach Selinger was 3-for-5 with a double and a run scored, while Guercio was 2-for-4 with a double and two RBI.  Harnisch scored three runs with two RBI, while Coules and Grund each drove in a pair.    Semo and Wachter were also 2-for-4 with two RBI each.
 
The series wraps up on Sunday with a noon start.