{"id":171396,"date":"2026-03-22T17:58:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171396\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:58:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:58:47","slug":"bobcats-fall-to-manhattan-in-series-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/171396\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobcats Fall to Manhattan in Series Opener"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamden, Conn. \u2013 The Quinnipiac Bobcats dropped game one of the series to the Manhattan Jaspers by a final score of 6-5. With the loss, the Bobcats fell to 6-12 on the season and 1-3 in MAAC play.
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\nSCORE
\nManhattan 6, Quinnipiac 5 \u00a0
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\nRECORDS
\nQuinnipiac (6-12, 1-3 MAAC) | Manhattan (7-11, 2-5 MAAC)
\nWinning Pitcher \u2013 Jackson Klein (2-0)
\nLosing Pitcher \u2013\u00a0Mike Poncini<\/a> (0-2)
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nThe Bobcats struck first in this one as Christian Smith<\/a> came home to score on a groundout from Jack Balcer<\/a>.
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\nManhattan responded with a couple of runs in the third inning to jump out in front, 2-1. Quinnipiac immediately got the run back in the next half inning as Smith reached on a fielder’s choice, allowing Kyle Garbowski<\/a> to come in and score.
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\nThe Jaspers would have the answer yet again, scoring the game’s next two runs to take a 4-2 lead at the end of five innings.
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\nQuinnipiac wouldn’t go down without a fight as James Marino<\/a> launched a three-run homer to put the Bobcats up 5-4 in the top half of the seventh inning.
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\nOnce again, Manhattan would have the response, going up 6-5 in the bottom half of the seventh and holding on to win the opening game of the series.
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\nNEWS AND NOTES<\/p>\n


\n\tFive different Bobcats recorded hits in the series opener against Manhattan. Three of those Bobcats recorded multiple hits in the effort.
\n\tJames Marino<\/a> led the offense, going 3-for-4 at the plate and driving in three runs. Marino hit his second home run of the season, which now leads the team.
\n\tChristian Smith<\/a> and Jack Balcer<\/a> picked up two hits and an RBI each.
\n\tBrendan Edvardsen<\/a> and Caden Williamson<\/a> were the other Bobcats to record a hit in the effort.
\n\tJames Pazdera<\/a> got the start for the Bobcats and went 4.2 innings, allowing two earned runs and striking out one.
\n\tMike Poncini<\/a> pitched the next 2.1 innings, striking out three and allowing two runs.
\n\tJ.c. Franconere pitched a scoreless inning in relief, striking out two in the inning. <\/p>\n

\nON DECK<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Bobcats and Jaspers will go back at it tomorrow at 6:30 PM from Clover Stadium in Pomona, New York. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamden, Conn. \u2013 The Quinnipiac Bobcats dropped game one of the series to the Manhattan Jaspers by a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-171396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}