Senior pitcher Devin Monds did not allow a hit to the first 27 batters he faced, but in the 10th inning, in a 0-0 tie, Monds surrendered a single to Hartford leadoff batter Adam Bowser to end his no-hit bid. In the bottom of the inning, the Huskies finally pushed across a run and defeated the Hawks, 1-0, in a thriller at Friedman Diamond Sunday afternoon.
Monds' nine innings of no-hit ball is the longest a Husky pitcher has gone with allowing a hit since Greg Montalbano pitched a seven-inning no-hitter on March 20, 1999. There have been three nine-inning no-hitters in school history, the last one thrown by Joe Killelea against MIT on May 3, 1985.
Monds was absolutely dominant today, retiring his first nine batters before walking Bowser in the fourth inning. After issuing a walk to Hawks designated hitter Mark Trahan in the sixth, Monds set down 12 more batters in a row up until Bowser's hit in the 10th. He had his patented fastball, curveball and changeup today, striking out 14 batters, including seven Hawks in a row from the first inning until the third inning.
After striking out Ryan O'Neill to end the Hartford ninth, the Huskies rallied to try to push across the winning run and give Monds his no-hitter, but with runners on second and third and Hawks reliever Pete Moraski (1-3) pitching, junior Brian Nutting grounded out, ending the threat and forcing Monds to go out and defend his no-hit effort.
In the tenth, Bowser led off with the hit and Monds then walked shortstop Bill Perry to put runners on first and second. Huskies head coach Neil McPhee pulled Monds in favor of senior Tim Bush (1-1), who promptly allowed a bunt single to Ryan Cuscovitch to load the bases.
Bush though mowed down the next two batters, getting each of them to strike out. That set the scene for Trahan to hit a tapper towards the mound that Bush grabbed and beat out Bowser to home plate, a force out, to keep the shutout intact.
In the bottom of the inning, junior Chris Emanuele recorded an infield single and took second on an errant throw by Perry. He then moved to third on a groundout by junior Arman Sidhu. Then, with two strikes on him, senior Jeff Heriot swung and missed at strike three in the dirt, a pitch that Hawks catcher Ryan Crowley could not handle. Heriot ran to first and Emanuele broke for home, and Crowley threw the ball into Heriot's back, allowing Emanuele to cross the plate and win the game.
Emanuele went 4-5 on the day and was the appropriate Husky to score the game-winner.
Monds, who has only pitched once since March 5, set a career-high with his 14 punchouts, besting his previous mark of 10 that he set on May 22, 2004 against Albany.
Hartford starter Jason Krajeski also pitched a brilliant game, allowing no runs and scattering eight hits in eight and a third innings.
The Huskies will look to extend their three-game winning streak on Wed., April 13 when they travel to Amherst, Mass. to play Massachusetts at 3 p.m.
2005 Northeastern Baseball
Hartford at Northeastern
Apr 10, 2005 at Brookline, MA (Friedman Diamond)
Hartford 0 (2-10,0-3 AE)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
------------------------------------------------------
BOWSER 3b................ 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 2 0
PERRY ss................. 2 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 0
CUSCOVITCH 1b............ 4 0 1 0 0 2 12 2 0
CROWLEY c................ 4 0 0 0 0 2 5 2 0
CIPOLLA 2b............... 4 0 0 0 0 3 2 3 0
TRAHAN dh................ 3 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 3
TOPP lf.................. 3 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0
MOYER rf................. 3 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 0
O'NEILL cf............... 3 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0
KRAJESKI p............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0
MORASKI p............... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals................... 29 0 2 0 3 16 29 16 3
Northeastern 1 (9-14,3-0 AE)
Player AB R H RBI BB SO PO A LOB
------------------------------------------------------
Chris Emanuele cf........ 5 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0
Arman Sidhu ss........... 4 0 0 0 0 1 3 0 3
Jeff Heriot rf........... 5 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 1
Miguel Paquette 1b....... 4 0 1 0 0 1 8 1 0
Tim Bush 3b/p............ 3 0 1 0 1 0 2 1 0
Matt Morizio c........... 3 0 0 0 1 2 14 4 1
Dan Milano dh............ 4 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1
Anthony Fantaroni lf.... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Brian Nutting 2b/3b...... 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2
Jeff Maher lf............ 2 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0
Garrett Chin pr......... 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Mike Lyon lf/2b......... 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
Devin Monds p............ 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Totals................... 35 1 9 0 3 8 30 11 9
Score by Innings R H E
---------------------------------------------
Hartford............ 000 000 000 0 - 0 2 3
Northeastern........ 000 000 000 1 - 1 9 0
---------------------------------------------
Note: 2 outs, 1 runner LOB when the game ended.
E - BOWSER; PERRY; CROWLEY. DP - HU 2. LOB - HU 3; Northeastern 9. 2B -
Emanuele(6). SH - PERRY; Sidhu(1). SB - Emanuele(10); Heriot(7); Bush(1).
Hartford IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
-----------------------------------------------
KRAJESKI............ 8.1 8 0 0 2 7 29 32
MORASKI............. 1.1 1 1 0 1 1 6 7
Northeastern IP H R ER BB SO AB BF
-----------------------------------------------
Devin Monds......... 9.0 1 0 0 3 14 25 29
Tim Bush............ 1.0 1 0 0 0 2 4 4
Win - Bush (1-1). Loss - MORASKI (1-3). Save - None.
WP - KRAJESKI.
Umpires -
Start: 1:00 Time: 2:36 Attendance: 75
Game: GAME23
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Play-by-Play
2005 Northeastern Baseball
Hartford at Northeastern - Play-by-Play
Apr 10, 2005 at Brookline, MA (Friedman Diamond)
Score by Innings R H E
---------------------------------------------
Hartford............ 000 000 000 0 - 0 2 3
Northeastern........ 000 000 000 1 - 1 9 0
---------------------------------------------
Hartford starters: 11/3b BOWSER; 10/ss PERRY; 25/1b CUSCOVITCH; 30/c CROWLEY; 3/2b
CIPOLLA; 21/dh TRAHAN; 4/lf TOPP; 5/rf MOYER; 13/cf O'NEILL; 12/p KRAJESKI;
Northeastern starters: 27/cf Emanuele; 3/ss Sidhu; 44/rf Heriot; 31/1b Paquette;
45/3b Bush; 11/c Morizio; 35/dh Milano; 8/2b Nutting; 1/lf Maher; 21/p Monds;
Hartford 1st - BOWSER flied out to lf. PERRY struck out swinging. CUSCOVITCH
struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 1st - Emanuele grounded out to ss. Sidhu struck out swinging.
Heriot singled to right field. Heriot out at second p to 1b to ss, picked off. 0
runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Hartford 2nd - CROWLEY struck out swinging to catcher. CIPOLLA struck out
looking. TRAHAN struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 2nd - Paquette struck out swinging. Bush singled to center
field. Bush stole second. Bush advanced to third on a wild pitch. Morizio struck out
looking. Milano grounded out to 1b unassisted. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1
LOB.
Hartford 3rd - TOPP struck out looking. MOYER struck out swinging. O'NEILL
flied out to lf. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 3rd - Nutting lined out to 3b. Maher struck out swinging, out at
first c to 1b. Emanuele singled to right field. Emanuele stole second. Sidhu fouled
out to 1b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Hartford 4th - BOWSER walked. PERRY grounded out to p, bunt, SAC; BOWSER
advanced to second. BOWSER out at second c to ss, picked off. CUSCOVITCH struck out
swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 4th - Heriot reached on an error by 3b. Paquette flied out to
lf. Heriot stole second. Bush popped up to 3b. Morizio lined out to rf. 0 runs, 0
hits, 1 error, 1 LOB.
Hartford 5th - CROWLEY fouled out to 3b. CIPOLLA struck out swinging, out at
first c to 1b. TRAHAN walked. TRAHAN out at second p to 1b to ss, picked off. 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 5th - Milano struck out swinging. Nutting grounded out to 3b.
Maher singled to left center. Emanuele singled to center field, advanced to second;
Maher advanced to third. Sidhu flied out to rf. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 2
LOB.
Hartford 6th - TOPP struck out swinging, out at first c to 1b. MOYER struck
out looking. O'NEILL grounded out to c, bunt. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0
LOB.
Northeastern 6th - Heriot popped up to ss. Paquette singled to center field.
Bush grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Paquette out on the play. 0 runs,
1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Hartford 7th - BOWSER struck out swinging. PERRY grounded out to 3b.
CUSCOVITCH grounded out to p. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 7th - Morizio struck out looking. Milano singled through the
left side. Nutting grounded into double play ss to 2b to 1b; Milano out on the play.
0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Hartford 8th - CROWLEY grounded out to 2b. CIPOLLA grounded out to 2b. TRAHAN
struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 8th - Maher walked. Chin pinch ran for Maher. Chin out at second
p to 1b to ss, picked off. Emanuele doubled down the lf line. Sidhu grounded out to
3b, bunt, SAC; Emanuele advanced to third. Heriot struck out swinging, out at first
c to 1b. 0 runs, 1 hit, 0 errors, 1 LOB.
Hartford 9th - Lyon to lf for Chin. TOPP popped up to ss. MOYER flied out to
lf. O'NEILL struck out swinging. 0 runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 0 LOB.
Northeastern 9th - Paquette flied out to rf. Bush walked. MORASKI to p for
KRAJESKI. Morizio walked; Bush advanced to second. Milano grounded out to ss;
Morizio advanced to second; Bush advanced to third. Nutting grounded out to ss. 0
runs, 0 hits, 0 errors, 2 LOB.
Hartford 10th - BOWSER singled up the middle. PERRY walked; BOWSER advanced
to second. Bush to p. Fantaroni to lf for Milano. Nutting to 3b. Lyon to 2b. / for
Monds. CUSCOVITCH singled to second base, bunt; PERRY advanced to second; BOWSER
advanced to third. CROWLEY struck out swinging. CIPOLLA struck out swinging. TRAHAN
reached on a fielder's choice to pitcher; CUSCOVITCH advanced to second; PERRY
advanced to third; BOWSER out at home p unassisted. 0 runs, 2 hits, 0 errors, 3
LOB.
Northeastern 10th - Lyon flied out to lf. Emanuele singled to shortstop,
advanced to second on an error by ss. Sidhu grounded out to 2b; Emanuele advanced to
third. Heriot struck out swinging, reached first on an error by c; Emanuele scored,
unearned. 1 run, 1 hit, 2 errors, 1 LOB.
