{"id":172835,"date":"2026-03-24T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172835\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T01:01:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T01:01:05","slug":"baseball-picks-up-win-in-series-finale-against-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/172835\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Picks Up Win in Series Finale Against Manhattan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hamden, Conn. \u2013 The Quinnipiac Bobcats avoided the sweep, defeating the Manhattan Jaspers, 9-3, on Sunday afternoon to close out the series. With the win, the Bobcats improved to 7-13 overall and 2-4 in conference play. \u00a0
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\nSCORE
\nQuinnipiac 9, Manhattan 3 \u00a0
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\nRECORDS
\nQuinnipiac (7-13, 2-4 MAAC) | Manhattan (8-12, 3-6 MAAC)
\nWinning Pitcher \u2013 Andrew Rubayo<\/a> (2-0)
\nLosing Pitcher \u2013\u00a0Jacob Smoot (1-3)
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\nHOW IT HAPPENED
\nAfter a scoreless first two innings, the Bobcats were able to get on the board first in the third inning as Kyle Garbowski<\/a> drew a bases-loaded walk, forcing Caden Williamson<\/a> to come in to score.
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\nThe next inning, Quinnipiac added to their lead, scoring five runs in the inning. Cole Constable<\/a> got the scoring started in the inning as he singled to second, allowing Peyton Vancas<\/a> to cross the plate with the second run of the game. Later in the inning, James Marino<\/a> cleared the bases with a triple to the right-center gap to make it a 5-0 lead for the Bobcats. Alex Irizarry<\/a> tacked on another run for the Bobcats in the inning, singling through the right side to score Marino from third.
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\nThe Jaspers scored a run in the fourth and the sixth to make it a four-run game heading into the seventh inning.
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\nThe Bobcats responded with three straight runs, making it a 9-2 game. Caden Williamson<\/a> singled home Cole Constable<\/a> in the seventh inning to stretch the Quinnipiac lead to five. An inning later, Christian Smith<\/a> scored on a Peyton Vancas<\/a> sac fly, and then in the ninth inning, Jack Balcer<\/a> singled home Williamson to make it a seven-run lead.
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\nManhattan got a run back in the bottom half of the ninth inning, but Matt Alduino<\/a> escaped the jam to close out the win.
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\nNEWS AND NOTES<\/p>\n


\n\tSeven different Bobcats recorded hits in the series finale against Manhattan. Four of those seven Bobcats picked up multiple hits in the win.
\n\tCaden Williamson<\/a> picked up two more hits, raising his batting average to .346 in his first collegiate season.
\n\tWilliamson has recorded a hit in seven straight contests and has reached base safely in ten straight games.\u00a0
\n\tKyle Garbowski<\/a> picked up two hits after going hitless in the first two games against Manhattan.
\n\tAlex Irizarry<\/a> recorded two hits, raising his season average to .253, which ranks fourth on the team.
\n\tCole Constable<\/a> recorded multiple hits, marking just the second time he has done so this season in 12 contests.
\n\tJames Marino<\/a> was one of three Bobcats to hit a triple in the win as he cleared the bases with his in the fourth inning.
\n\tMarino has recorded 12 RBIs this season in 13 games played, ranking third on the team.
\n\tCaden Williamson<\/a> and Peyton Vancas<\/a> were the other two Bobcats to hit a triple in the win.
\n\tAndrew Rubayo<\/a> had another strong outing for the Bobcats, going 6.0 innings, allowing just two earned runs, and striking out four.
\n\tJ.c. Franconere pitched two scoreless innings in relief, lowering his ERA to 4.11 in ten appearances. <\/p>\n

\nON DECK<\/p>\n


\n\tThe Bobcats will return to Hamden to take on the Rhode Island Rams on Tuesday, March 24th, with the first pitch slated for 3 PM. \u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hamden, Conn. \u2013 The Quinnipiac Bobcats avoided the sweep, defeating the Manhattan Jaspers, 9-3, on Sunday afternoon to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-172835","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\/172835","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=172835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}