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February 18, 2008 Monterey Bay, CA – Saint Martin’s picked up two wins in their first outing of the season against Cal State Monterey Bay, taking games one and three of the four game series 11-6 and 8-3. They fell in games two and four 9-1 and 10-9. The Saints put runs on the board in six different innings in game one to defeat the Otters. Mickey Letofsky, who had two hits in the game, drove in three runs in the first inning with a double. With the score tied 3-3 in the third inning, SMU took the lead for good on singles by Brandon Kuykendall and Tom Barlow. Kuykendall scored three runs and Barlow drove in two. Barlow, Craig Yuhas and Nate Baker all had two hits in the game. Yuhas posted two doubles while Baker drove in two runs. Pat Capone picked up his first win of the season throwing six innings and allowing three runs on eight hits. In the first game of Saturday’s doubleheader CSUMB’s Addis O’Connor held Saint Martin’s to just four hits in seven innings. The Saints would get their only run in the top of the ninth on a pinch hit single by Luke Abbott. Monterey scattered 11 hits in the game and had at least one runner cross the plate in six different innings. Andrew Speer was tagged with the loss. Shane Schoeneberg drove in seven runs with a pair of home runs and a triple to lead the Saints to win in game three. Schoeneberg hit a two run shot in the second inning followed by a grand slam in the fourth as part of a five run inning. His triple in the sixth would give the Saints their final run of the game. Nick Bolthouse recorded the win pitching four innings, allowing four hits and three runs. Andy Cole and Corey Grayson had two hits each. The Otters rallied in game four coming back from a 9-6 deficit scoring two runs in the eighth and two in the ninth to defeat SMU. Saint Martin’s was down 5-4 when they put up a five spot in the eighth to take the lead, one on a hit batsman and the other on Schoeneberg’s second grad slam of the series. But Monterey scored on a bases loaded walk and bases loaded hit batter in the bottom of the eighth and on an error and fielder’s choice in the ninth to pull out the win. Schoeneberg, Cole, Kuykendall, and Yuhas had two hits apiece for the Saints. Mat Nelson took the loss.
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