Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 CALDWELL, N.J. – The Caldwell College baseball team scored 19 runs and pounded out 27 hits in a sweep of Nyack College in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader Tuesday at the Kiwanis Oval. The Cougars, who won 10-4 and 9-0, improve to 6-24 overall and 3-15 in league play, while the Warriors drop to 21-19, 12-8 CACC.

In the first game, Nyack took a 2-0 lead with runs in the first and sixth innings before the Cougars started their comeback. Junior Jack Joyce (Bayside, NY/St. Mary's) singled home senior Joe O'Donnell (Belleville, NJ/Belleville), and senior Phil Ragusa (Staten Island, NY/St. Joseph by the Sea) plated junior Anthony Caruso (N. Babylon, NY/N. Babylon) with a groundout in the bottom of the sixth to tie the score at 2-2.

Then in the seventh, Caldwell pushed eight runs across on six hits to take a commanding 10-2 lead. Freshman Ryan Rivera (Saddle Brook, NJ/St. Joseph) hit a two-run single, while O'Donnell, Caruso, Ragusa and senior Andrew Nunez (East Elmhurst, NY/Cardozo) also drove in runs in the inning. Nyack scored twice in the top of the ninth, but the Cougars closed out the win to end an eight-game losing streak.

Junior right-hander Michael Sheridan (Caldwell, NJ/Seton Hall Prep) went the distance, allowing four runs on 12 hits while striking out six and walking one to improve to 2-5. O'Donnell delivered three hits, while Ragusa and Rivera had two hits apiece.

The second game belonged to senior pitcher Dan Bartlett (Levittown, NY/Island Trees), who shut out the Warriors on five hits while fanning nine without a walk in nine innings. The Cougar bats gave Bartlett a cushion right out of the gate, scoring four runs on six hits in the bottom of the first. O'Donnell, Caruso, Joyce and Nunez each had RBIs in the inning. Senior Thomas Pisano (N. Bellmore, NY/Mepham) scored a run on an error in the fifth to make it 5-0. Then in the seventh, Rivera hit a bases-loaded triple and came home on a single by senior Paul Nyitray (Cranford, NJ/St. Joseph) for a 9-0 advantage.

Ragusa went 3-for-4 at the plate, while Joyce also tallied three hits in Game 2. Rivera, Nyitray, O'Donnell and Nunez added two hits apiece to spark the Cougar offense.

The Cougars are scheduled to play at Pace University on Wednesday, Apr. 30 in a non-conference game at 3:30 p.m. in Pleasantville, N.Y.