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Golden Eagles Beat Hawks 13-4 in Baseball

Release Date:
April 27, 2004
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April 27, 2004

 

Brockport, N.Y. – SUNY Brockport’s Matt Johnson hit a grand slam in the bottom of the fourth inning to give the host Golden Eagles a lead they would not relinquish en route to a 13-4 win over visiting Hilbert College yesterday. The win improves the Golden Eagles to 22-11 while Hilbert falls to 4-16 on the season.

 

The visiting Hawks scored two runs in the top of the first and two more in the top of the third to take an early 4-3 lead before giving up a six-run fourth inning to the winners.  Brockport added two runs in the sixth and two more in the eighth to close out the scoring.

 

Hilbert’s Sam Gioia (West Seneca West/West Seneca, NY) provided a bulk of the Hawks offense with a four-for-four performance from the plate, including a stolen base and a run scored. Cory Lindsley (Pioneer/Yorkshire, NY) chipped in with two hits and two RBIs while relief pitcher Glen Ufland (Bishop Timon/Buffalo, NY) suffered the loss on the mound.

 

Brockport’s Ben Kimball earned his fifth win of the season as three different Golden Eagle pitchers combined for eight strikeouts on the day.

 

Hilbert’s originally scheduled home doubleheader today against LaRoche College has been cancelled. The Hawks will play host to conference foe Medaille College on May 1 with game one of the twinbill scheduled for 1 p.m. 


Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college’s engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college’s first graduate programs, one a master’s in criminal justice administration and the other a master’s in public administration, and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.