Staten Island, N.Y. (May 3, 2014)--The Mount St. Mary's baseball team swept Saturday's doubleheader at Wagner with a pair of one-run victories.  The Mount rallied for a 4-3 win in the opening game before posting a 1-0 shutout in the nightcap.  The Mount's veteran trio of Vincent Molesky, Karl Lamont and Nick Riley provided strong pitching to pace the Mountaineers in the sweep.

Game One Recap
Mount St. Mary's 4, Wagner 3

The Mount rallied with four runs in the top of the seventh inning to secure a 4-3 victory in the opening game of the Saturday doubleheader. 

Trailing 3-0 after six innings of play, Tyler Post singled to open the top of the seventh.  After a popout, Andrew Frazier reached on a fielder's choice with Post safe at second on a Wagner error.  Brandon Scott then doubled down the left field line to score Post to cut the deficit to 3-1.

Andrew Clow greeted reliever Mike Adams with an RBI single to cut the Wagner advantage to 3-2.  Kory Britton followed with a single to left field that scored Scott to even the score at 3-3.  Clow moved to third on a Zach Hostetter flyout, and Ryan Owens provided the big hit, a single to right field to score Clow with the go-ahead run.

Mount closer Nick Riley set the Seahawks down in order in the bottom of the seventh to earn his seventh save of the year.

Jason Gordon gave Wagner (13-29, 6-9 NEC) a 2-0 lead with a two-run single in the bottom of the first.  Mount starter Vincent Molesky held Wagner off the scoreboard over the next four innings despite allowing a leadoff triple in the second, and escaping a bases-loaded one-out jam in the fourth.

Wagner added a run in the bottom of the sixth off Molesky on a Chris Smith RBI single.  Molesky, however, escaped another bases loaded jam to keep the score at 3-0.

Molesky picked up the win to improve to 4-4 on the year.  He allowed three runs while striking out four in six innings of work.  Owens was the lone Mount player to record multiple hits in the game, finishing 2-for-4 in the game.

Game Two Recap
Mount St. Mary's 1, Wagner 0

Karl Lamont pitched five scoreless innings, and Nick Riley earned his second save of the day, to lead the Mount to a 1-0 win in the second game of Saturday's doubleheader.

The Mount (15-21, 8-11 NEC) got a big defensive play from Zach Hostetter in the bottom of the second to keep the game scoreless.  Hostetter threw out John Lynn at the plate as he tried to score from second on a Zach Yesko base hit.

Mount St. Mary's finally broke through against Wagner starter Nolan Long in the top of the fifth.  Joshua Lenig's ground rule double started the rally.  Greg Hajjar came on to pinch run, and Tommy Quealy singled to center to put runners on the corners with no outs.   Hajjar scampered home on an Andrew Frazier groundout to score the game's only run.

Lamont pitched a 1-2-3 bottom of the fifth before giving way to Riley, who closed out the win with two scoreless innings.  Wagner had runners on first and second with one out in the sixth, and a runner on second with two outs in the seventh, but Riley was able to convert the save.

Lamont allowed four hits in his five innings to earn the win and improve to 2-5 on the season.  Riley struck out to in his two innings to earn his eighth save of the year.

The four-game series concludes tomorrow with a single game at 1:00 p.m. at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.