Panthers Baseball Soar Past Eagles of Post University 8-2
MELBOURNE, Fla. – The Florida Tech Panthers Baseball Team taking on their fifth and final Northern school of the year soared past the Eagles of Post
University 8-2 in the single game match up at the Andy Seminick-Les Hall Field.
Starting off the game, the Panthers went down early in the second inning as the Eagles were able to put a run on the board as the Eagles put up a base hit
and double against the starting Tech pitcher Erik Bua (Port Richey, Fla.). Post University would put up their second and last run up as their catcher Chris
Gelalich blasted his sixth homerun of the season over the left field fence.
Tech swinging the bat could only manage four hits through four innings of play. In the fifth, the Panthers awakened putting up six runs on six hits.
Leading the outing was Trevor Hearl (Cape Coral, Fla.) who started the inning with a base hit. Nick Brennan (Detroit, Mich.) knocked in the Tech’s first
run off his second triple of the year hitting the right center gap. Brennan would cross off a double by JD Davidson (Naples, Fla.) and JD would score four
batters later off a base hit from Michael Demma (Coral Springs, Fla.). Steve Condotta (Mississauga, Ontario) who reached base after Davidson off one of his
three base hits of the game would score after a bases loaded walk to Eric Trillas (Hialeah, Fla.). Michael Messana (Pinehurst, NC) would drive in the last
two runs of the inning as he hit the second double in the fifth driving in Kevin Villa (Miami, Fla.) who reached on a walk and Demma who was on second
after the Trillas walk. After batting around in the fifth and scoring six runs with six hits, the Panthers were on top 6-2.
With the led at hand, Bua and the relief pitcher Jody Danca (Naples, Fla.) who came in the eight to finish the game faced only 16 batters in five innings
of play. Before the scoring outing in the fifth, Bua got two out of the three Eagle batters on ground outs with Villa behind the plate throwing out the
lone Eagle base runner trying to steal second for the third out. Bua in his seven innings of throwing struck out five Post batters while forcing the Eagles
to ground out ten times and pop up four times. Eric allowed seven hits and two runs as he went on to receive his fourth win as a Tech pitcher in his
seventh appearance. Danca who came in the top of the eighth retired all six batters he faced striking out three getting two ground outs and a pop fly that
ended the game in the ninth.
Tech would score their other two runs with one in the sixth as Condotta came in as he got on first from a walk, moved to second after a past ball, then he
stole third for his first of two stolen bases of the game, scored again after another past ball. Condotta on the year has a total of 22 stolen bases on 24
attempts. The Panthers last run would come in during the eighth inning as Davidson who came in the fifth inning hit his second double of the game scored
off a sac fly by Villa.
Condotta led the team with three hits on the afternoon scoring twice and stealing two bases. Davidson, Villa, and Messana had multiple hits with each
having two apiece. Brennan, Demma, Trillas, and Hearl all hit one hit apiece in the game for four of the combined total of 13 hits for the Panthers.
Tech 17-7 overall has the next several days off before traveling to St. Leo, Florida to take on St. Leo University in their second Sunshine State
Conference three game series on Friday, March 16th. The first game will start on Friday the 16th with the first pitch being thrown approx. 7pm in
a night game against the Lions. On Saturday, the two teams will face off in a double header with the first game starting approx 1pm and second starting
approx 6 pm.
Florida Tech Baseball 2007
Post University at Florida Tech
03/13/07 at Melbourne, Fla. (Seminick-Hall Field)
Post University 2 (3-4) Florida Tech 8 (17-7)
Player AB R H BI Player AB R H BI
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Chris Ouellette cf……… 4 0 0 0 Nick Brennan cf………… 5 1 1 1
Ryan DePolo 3b…………. 4 0 1 0 Danny Sutton 3b………… 2 0 0 0
Matt Dimaina lf………… 4 0 1 0 JD Davidson ph/2b……… 3 2 2 1
Chris Gelalich c……….. 4 1 1 1 Steve Condotta ss………. 4 2 3 0
Joe Proscia dh…………. 4 1 2 0 Kevin Villa c………….. 3 1 2 1
Steve Giffin 1b………… 4 0 1 0 Brandon Veronee dh……… 3 0 0 1
Mike Padovani ss……….. 4 0 1 0 Dane Maglich dh/pr…….. 1 0 0 0
Eric Rovinetti rf………. 2 0 0 1 Michael Demma 1b……….. 3 1 1 1
Dan Luisi 2b…………… 3 0 0 0 Eric Trillas 2b/3b……… 3 0 1 1
Michael Wolfe p………… 0 0 0 0 Michael Messana rf……… 4 0 2 1
Greg Romer p………….. 0 0 0 0 Trevor Hearl lf………… 4 1 1 0
Erik Bua p…………….. 0 0 0 0
Jody Danca p………….. 0 0 0 0
Totals………………… 33 2 7 2 Totals………………… 35 8 13 7
Score by Innings R H E
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Post University….. 010 100 000 – 2 7 1
Florida Tech…….. 000 061 01X – 8 13 0
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E – Gelalich(3). DP – Eagles 2. LOB – Eagles 5; Panthers 9. 2B – Padovani(1);
Davidson 2(4); Messana(1). 3B – Brennan(2). HR – Gelalich(1). SF – Villa(1). SB –
Dimaina(1); Condotta 3(22); Villa 2(2). CS – DePolo(1).
Post University IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO
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Michael Wolfe L,0-1……. 4.1 9 6 6 4 4 0 0 0 0 21 25 5 3
Greg Romer ……………. 3.2 4 2 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 14 16 4 5
Florida Tech IP H R ER BB SO WP BK HP IBB AB BF FO GO
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Erik Bua W,4-0………… 7.0 7 2 2 1 5 0 0 0 0 27 28 4 10
Jody Danca ……………. 2.0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 0 6 6 1 2
PB – Gelalich 2(2).
Strikeouts – DePolo; Gelalich; Proscia; Giffin 3; Luisi 2; Sutton; Villa; Veronee 3;
Messana. Walks – Rovinetti; Condotta; Villa; Veronee; Demma; Trillas.
