From NYU Athletics

The New York University baseball team split a doubleheader against host and University Athletic Association (UAA) rival Case Western Reserve University on Friday, April 13, in Cleveland, OH. NYU won game one 12-3, while CWRU took the second game 13-3.

The Violets' record now stands at 21-5, while the 11th-ranked (d3baseball.com) Spartans are now 21-4 on the season. 

GAME ONE RECAP:

Game one highlighted a battle of each team's top starting pitcher as Cameron Serapilio-Frank entered the game with a 1.17 ERA for NYU and Mark Gross came into Friday's matchup with a 1.13 ERA. Serapilio-Frank got the better of Gross as he went seven innings and allowed just two runs to improve to 7-0 on the mound this season. 

"That win was huge for us," said Serapilio-Frank. "Our offensive really proved itself today against one of the better pitchers in one of the toughest conferences in the country." 

The NYU offense made Serapilio-Frank's afternoon much easier as they tagged Gross and the Spartans' bullpen for 12 hits and 12 runs, which are both season-highs for the Violets in UAA action this season. Jonathan Iaione and Coltrane Tait, NYU's fourth and fifth hitters, each recorded three hits in the opener, while Colman Hendershot, Iaione and Isaac Martinez each knocked in a pair of runs. 

Case Western Reserve cut the Violets lead to 4-2 with a run in the fifth inning, but NYU answered with a run in the sixth and four more in the seventh to take a 10-2 lead.

Zach Cohen relieved Serapilio-Frank and pitched two innings and allowed one run to help the Violets improve to 2-3 through five UAA games this season. 

GAME TWO RECAP:

A sacrifice fly from Iaione gave NYU a 1-0 lead in the top of the first, but it would be their only lead of the contest as Rocco Maue's 11th home run of the season gave Case Western Reserve a 2-1 lead in the bottom half of the inning. 

The Violets tied the score at two in the second on a Jack Walter sacrifice fly, but it was all CWRU from there. The Spartans used a five-run bottom of the second to take control of the game and never looked back en route to the 13-3 eight-inning victory.

Hendershot tallied two of NYU's four hits in the game, while Ryan McLaughlin reached base three times, all via walks. In addition to his sac fly, Walter reached base via a walk, hit by pitch and a single, and came around to score twice.