St. Bonaventure Gets Past Buffalo, 6-1

Wednesday, April 27

3 pm

University at Buffalo

12-24

St. Bonaventure

18-16-1

St. Bonaventure

Buffalo

St. Bonaventure Gets Past Buffalo, 6-1

4/27/2016 12:00:00 AM | Baseball

Box Score

BUFFALO, NY – The University at Buffalo baseball team dropped their third straight game on Wednesday afternoon at Amherst Audobon Field to Big 4 foe St. Bonaventure by the score of 6-1. With the loss, the Bulls fall to 12-24 overall and 5-10 in MAC play while also falling to 1-16 on the year when scoring two runs or less.

After Brandon Mumaw got out of a two runner on jam in the first inning, the Bulls offense jumped out quick on St. Bonaventure starting pitcher Aaron Phillips. Mike Abrunzo started the rally as he earned his MAC-leading 30^th walk of the season before Vinny Mallaro hit a sharp single to right center field and Andrew Taft was hit by a pitch to load the bases for the Bulls. After a quick pitching change by the Bonnies, Brian Wasilewski was not able to bring any Bulls across home plate as he flew out to deep center to end the threat.

After a quick second inning, the Bonnies got on the board in the top of the third as they used four hits to score three runs in the inning. Two singles and a sacrifice bunt gave the Bonnies two runners in scoring position for Tyler Walter who delivered with an RBI single to right. David Vaccaro then dug in and tripled to left field to plate two more runners and give SBU the 3-0 lead.

St. Bonaventure was able to add two more runs in the fourth inning before the Bulls notched their lone run of the game in the bottom of the fifth. Ben Vey opened the inning with a hit by pitch before being thrown out at home after Kyle Brennan crushed a double to left field. Brennan was able to advance to third on the throw and he came around to score two batters later as Bobby Sheppard hit a hard single to center field, his 16^th RBI of the season.

With the 5-1 lead, the Bonnies added the final run of the game in the top of the seventh inning on a pair of hits. Walter singled and was moved over to second on a walk before Aaron Phillips singled home Walter from second base.

The Bulls stranded Brian Dudek on third base in the bottom of the seventh as he was able to rip a triple down the right field line before stranding the bases loaded in the bottom of the eighth as Andrew Taft and Ben Vey single and Eddie Edwards III earned a walk.

The Bulls were not able to score Abrunzo from second base with one out in the ninth as they fell to the Bonnies 6-1 on Wednesday. For the game, the Bulls stranded 13 runners on base while the Bonnies only left seven runners on base.

Four Bulls had multi-hit games led by Taft who went 2-for-4 and now has a team-best 12 multi-hit games on the year. Brennan finished off his impressive day at the plate going 2-for-4 with the lone run scored while Dudek and Abrunzo each notched two-hit games in the loss. Mallaro earned one hit in the game as he has now reached base safely in 15 games and has hit safely in five straight for UB.

On the mound, Mumaw went 6.2 innings while allowing 12 hits, six runs and striking out three batters. Logan Harasta and Mike Kaelin each notched hitless appearances as Harasta went 1.1 innings while striking out a pair and Kaelin went 1.0 inning and striked out one SBU batter. Harasta has now appeared in a team-leading 19 games and lowered his team-best ERA to 2.32.

The Bulls will return to Amherst Audobon Field this weekend as they open up a three-game set with the Ball State Cardinals, starting Friday at 3:00 pm. Junior Alec Tuohy (6-3, 3.02 ERA) will pitch on Friday for the Bulls while the two teams will wrap up the series with a game on Saturday at 1:00 pm and Sunday at 1:00 pm.