TEANECK, N.J. – Eight innings of one-run baseball from
Jordan Warecke lifted Manhattan to a 5-2 win over Fairleigh Dickinson in game two of the weekend series.
Warecke struck out eight Knights for Manhattan (2-7) over his eight innings of work. The graduate student only allowed four base runners.
Manhattan gave Warecke a 1-0 lead in the first inning that Warecke made last until the Jasper bats woke up in the top of the eighth.
In the eighth,
Jack Lynch homered to lead off the inning. Three batters later, Frankie Martinelli made it 3-0 with an RBI single to center.
David Bermudez connected for a second homer of the inning, this one a two-run shot, to make it 5-0 Jaspers.
Fairleigh Dickinson (2-8) got its first run of the game in the bottom of the eighth on a groundout from Brelon Harden. In the ninth, Tom Ruscitti brought in another run for the Knights to make it 5-2. K Lesler, who came on to start the ninth, got Matthew Puello to strike out to end the game.
Warecke picked up his first win of the season and lowered his ERA to a team-leading 3.37. Lesler logged his first save of 2022. Lynch and Bermudez's homers were the first of the season for the pair.
The two teams face off in game three of the weekend series on Sunday at 1 p.m.
