SETTERS LOSE TO BENTLEY, 1-0, DESPITE 1-HITTER FROM HALLBERG
WALTHAM, MA - Pace junior Bryan Hallberg (River Edge,
NJ/Riverdell) pitched a complete game, 1-hitter but one
unearned run was enough for Bentley College to squeeze out a
Northeast-10 Conference victory. With the 1-0 win, Bentley
goes to 13-11-1 overall and 7-6 in the NE-10 while Pace drops to
19-9 overall and 6-3 in conference play.
Hallberg sat down the Falcons in his first trip through the Bentley
order and was perfect through three innings before a lead-off walk
and a batter reaching on an error. With two runners on base,
Hallberg sat down the next three to end the early Bentley
threat.
Hallberg would pitch out of a similar jam in the 5th
after hitting a batter with one out. After an errant throw by
catcher Chris Brown (Kingston, RI/South Kingston)
allowed another runner to reach base, Hallberg was able to get the
next batter to ground out before the runner on second was thrown
out attempting to steal third.
In the 6th inning, Tim Dennehy (Norwood, MA) reached on
an error by Pace shortstop Andre Liscinsky (Trumbull,
CT/Trumbull). After Denehy moved to second base on a
sacrifice bunt by Bill Dacier (Medway, MA), Denehy would advance to
third on a passed ball by Brown. Hallberg would get Kevin
Vona (Belmont, MA) to ground out, but Steve Gath (Reading, MA) came
up with a two-out single, scoring Denehy with the go-ahead and
eventual winning run.
In the 7th, Pace junior Matt Castellano (Staten
Island, NY/St. Joseph) led off the inning with a single
and Brian Hollrah (Glenwood, MD/Glenely) reached
base on a fielding error by Bentley's pitcher on a sacrifice
bunt. Liscinsky then dropped down a sacrifice bunt of his
own, moving Castellano to third and Hollrah to second. With
one out and two runners in scoring position, Brown popped up to
first base and Castellano was doubled off of third to end the
inning.
Hallberg was brilliant on the mound, throwing 69 of his 97 pitches
in the game for strikes. Hallberg gave up one unearned run on
one hit while striking out four. He goes to 3-2 on the
season. His counterpart, Brett Fistes (South Deerfield, MA)
picked up the victory to improve to 3-0 on the season. Fistes held
Pace scoreless over 8 2/3 while giving up six hits, walking three
and striking out two. At the plate, Castellano was
2-for-2.
Pace returns to action when they host the Falcons of Bentley
College on Thursday, April 13th at 3:30 p.m. in a
Northeast-10 Conference match-up slated for 9-innings at Finnerty
Field on the Pleasantville campus of Pace University.