No.24 Baseball Breaks School Record for Wins; Sweeps Bloomfield to End Regular Season

BLOOMFIELD, N.J. - No.24 nationally ranked Thomas Jefferson University baseball (35-13, 27-7) finish their regular season with a doubleheader against Bloomfield College of Montclair State University (0-44, 0-36) where the Rams swept the Bears in both contests in an 18-6 eight inning game one and 9-3 game two. Those victories propelled Jefferson to 35 wins, the most the program has ever achieved. 

WHAT HAPPENED 
GAME ONE: W, 18-6 (8 INNINGS) 

• First inning saw three runs by way of a Thomas Matuszewski one-run double and a Joshua Lopez two-run homerun. Gabe Silva and Javon Hernandez both hit one run singles in the second with Matuszewski nailing a two-run single to left field in the fourth as the lead went to 7-0 for the Rams 

• The Bears came back in the game in the bottom of the fourth with the bases loaded by way of a hit by pitch and a walk to get two runners to home. Bloomfield then hit a grand slam to tie the game at 7-6 

• Jefferson went on to score 11 runs in the next three innings with a Julio Frometa Gomez single and a wild pitch in the sixth, Matuszewski, Lopez, and Kyle Kozlowski singles alongside a Jordan Tiburcio sacrifice bunt in the seventh, and a Hernandez single as well as a Kozlowski homerun in the eighth to end the game at 18-6 in eight innings 

• Ricky Harrison gets the win, pitching three innings with four strikeouts. Will Hoffman pitched .02 when the Bears came back as he recorded a strikeout. Kris Giangreco was on the mound the rest of the way as he registered five strikes 

QUICK HITS 
Gabe Silva: 3-for-3, 3 R, 1 RBI 
Javon Hernandez: 3-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI 
Thomas Matuszewski: 4-for-6, 3 R, 4 RBI, 1 Double 
Joshua Lopez: 4-for-5, 3 R, 3 RBI 
Kyle Kozlowski: 2-for-2, 2 R, 5 RBI, 1 HR 
Ricky Harrison: 3.0 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 4 SO 
Will Hoffman: 0.2 IP, 3 H, 6 ER, 1 SO 
Kris Giangreco: 4.1 IP, 2 H, 0 ER, 5 SO 

GAME TWO: W, 9-3 

• Jefferson started off hot again with four runs in the first inning. Jay Salsbery had a sacrifice flyout score, Lopez got a one-run single bunt, Justin Espinal had his own bunt be a sacrifice for a run, and a stolen base that had the throw be an error got Lopez to homeplate 

• Bloomfield got their first score in the second with a failed pickoff attempt to cut the lead to three runs. Matuszewski got them up to four with one-run double to right center 

• The Bears got a solo homerun to keep themselves close in the third, but Lou Spadafora had the response with a score on a wild pitch in the fourth inning 

• Lopez put two more with a single up the middle. The Bears had another run in the sixth to end their scoring while Kozlowski had a sacrifice flyout in the seventh to end the game with a 9-3 victory 

• Orion Frailey pitched a complete game, going all seven innings with just three hits and three earned runs while having a career-high 14 strikeouts in the win 

QUICK HITS 
Justin Egner: 1-for-3, 1 R, 1 Double 
Jay Salsbery: 0-for-2, 1 R, 1 RBI 
Javon Hernandez: 1-for-2, 3 R 
Thomas Matuszewski: 3-for-3, 2 R, 1 RBI, 2 Double 
Joshua Lopez: 2-for-3, 1 R, 3 RBI 
Lou Spadafora: 1-for-4, 1 R, 1 Double 
Orion Frailey: 7.0 IP, 3 H, 3 ER, 14 SO 

35 WINS 
After getting the second victory over the Bears, Jefferson now has reached 35 wins on the season. This breaks the 35-year-old record set in 1990 where the Rams (then Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science) went 34-15-1 and made their only appearance in the NCAA College World Series. The Rams 68-30 record the last two years are the most wins in a two-year span for the team, with only three seasons having 30+ wins in the programs history which head coach Pat Horvath holds two of them being back-to-back seasons. 

UP NEXT 
With the Rams breaking program records once again, they prepare to capture their first ever CACC Title in school history. Jefferson makes their return to Alumni Field on Friday, May 2 in a nine-inning doubleheader as they welcome back cross-town rival Chestnut Hill College for the first round of the CACC Tournament. The first pitch will be thrown at 12 p.m.