Purple Knights Tripped Up At Dowling, 4-1, In ECC Baseball Action

Brookhaven, N.Y.-The University of Bridgeport baseball team suffered a 4-1 East Coast Conference road loss against the host Dowling College Golden Lions on a cool and wet Tuesday afternoon on Long Island.  UB is now 11-17 overall and 7-5 in the ECC.  Dowling ups it overall mark to 15-5, and the Golden Lions are now 6-2 in conference play.

On Tuesday, DC opened the scoring with an unearned run in the bottom of fifth inning, but the Purple Knights came right back to tie the game at 1-1 in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by freshman Jose Negron (New Haven, Conn.).

Dowling came right back to score three runs in the bottom of the sixth to make the score 4-1 which proved to be the final score.

On the day, UB had nine hits to Dowling's eight.  Negron and classmate Tyler Theiss (Deer Park, N.Y.) each had two hits to lead the Bridgeport attack.

Freshman PJ Martino (Medford, N.Y.) started and pitched well on the day but took the loss to give him an 0-2 record so far in 2015.  PJ worked six innings in which he allowed four runs (only two earned), on seven hits while striking out three and walking only one.

Up next, the Bridgeport baseball team is scheduled to travel to Southern New Hampshire University on Thursday afternoon for a non-conference contest.