Sam Parks drove in four and scored four times, also hitting his first homer of the season. (PHOTO BY Crystal Ayn Hagberg)

SMITHFIELD, R.I. (March 12, 2024) – Redshirt junior Jack Thornbahn led the Stonehill College baseball team to a 16-5 win over Bryant University on Tuesday afternoon, going 4-4 with two home runs, a double, and eight RBI.

HOW IT HAPPENED

Bryant retired the first two batters of the game before Trey Ciulla-Hall drew a walk, setting up Thorbahn who blasted his first home run of the game, second of the season, to put the Skyhawks ahead 2-0.

The Bulldogs responded, plating three runs in the bottom half of the opening frame highlighted by a two-out, two RBI single from catcher Jackson Phinney.

In the top half of the third, Thorbahn hit another two-out homer, this time a three-run bomb to right center field to regain the Skyhawk lead, 5-3.

Center fielder Sam Parks sent a two-run shot over the right field fence in the fifth inning to extend Stonehill's lead to 7-3.

Bryant would score two more runs in the fifth to make it 7-5 but the Skyhawk bullpen shut down the Bulldogs, holding them scoreless over the final four innings with Braydon Gray tossing three scoreless innings to close out the game.

Stonehill tacked on nine more runs with two coming in the sixth and seven coming in the top half of the ninth. Parks doubled to tally two more RBI while Thorbahn, grad student Conor Kiely, and sophomore Evan Dieter all drove in runs in the ninth as Stonehill won the game 16-5.

INSIDE THE BOX & NOTES

• Stonehill's 16 runs on Tuesday mark the most runs by a Skyhawk team since March 11, 2022, a 16-4 win over American International College.
• Redshirt sophomore Peter Haas picked up his first win of the season and the fourth of his career.
• Thorbahn's eight RBI are a Stonehill division I record and the most in a game in over 15 years. His two home runs were the first two of his Skyhawk career, adding to the five home runs he hit a season ago at Northeastern.
• Thorbahn's two homers mark the first multi-homerun game for a Skyhawk this season.
• Parks hit his first homer of the season, the second of his career while driving in a career-high four runs. He also drew three walks and scored four times, accounting for eight of the Skyhawks 16 runs.
• Senior Jack Marshall and junior Taylor Gaspar both went 2-4 with two singles apiece.
• Along with Gray's scoreless performance in relief, junior Zach Gleason also gave up no runs in an inning and a third of relief to help the Skyhawks maintain their lead.

UP NEXT

Stonehill (4-5, 0-0 NEC) returns to action this weekend for its Northeast Conference opener, a three-game set against FDU. The first pitch of Friday's series opener between the Skyhawks and Knights is set for 3 p.m. in Hackensack, N.J.

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