Pirates' Offense Sparks Series Opening Win Over Georgia State, 14-5 - Seton Hall University Athletics
Danny Melnick (Hamilton, N.J.) went 4-for-5 with three RBI, two doubles and a home run and Daniel Frontera (Red Bank, N.J.) picked up his first win o...
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Atlanta, Ga. --Danny Melnick (Hamilton, N.J.) went 4-for-5 with three RBI, two doubles and a home run and Daniel Frontera (Red Bank, N.J.) picked up his first win of the season following six strong innings as the offense for the Seton Hall baseball team scored a season-high 14 runs in a 14-5 win over Georgia State on Friday afternoon.
Melnick's home run was one of four on the day for the Pirates (3-1). Kevin Milewski (Wallingford, Conn.) and Aiden Robbins (Yardley, Pa.) both hit their first collegiate home runs and Zack Sylvester (Montville, N.J.) got the scoring started with a two-run home run in the top of the first.
How It Happened
After Sylvester's home run in the top of the first, Robbins followed with a two-run shot of his own in the top of the second that extended Seton Hall's lead to 4-0. An RBI double for Melnick in the top of the third made it 5-0 Pirates as Frontera worked his second 1-2-3 inning of the ballgame in the home half of the third.
Milewski's first career jack led off the top of the fourth before the Panthers got on the board in the bottom half on a sacrifice fly that made it 6-1 Pirates. The floodgates opened in the top of the fifth where The Hall pushed across six runs, including one on a sac fly by Pat D'Amico (Lynnfield, Mass.) and a two-run base hit off the bat of Jonathan Luders (Lynnfield, Mass.). Despite allowing three runs in the next two frames, Frontera settled and got out of trouble in the bottom of the sixth with the Pirates leading by a score of 12-4.
Melnick fittingly drove in the final Seton Hall runs of the game on a two-run blast in the top of the eighth that made it 14-4. After Georgia State pushed a run across in the eighth that made it 14-5, Colin Dowlen (Middletown, N.J.) closed the door with a perfect ninth inning that featured a strikeout for the third out.
Inside The Box Score
- Melnick's four hits is a career high and he now has 23 career multi-hit games.
- Sylvester has now hit seven career home runs.
- Robbins' first career home run was also part of his first career multi-hit game.
- Staus Pokrovsky (Pittsgrove, N.J.) crossed the plate three times, a career high.
