Box Score
Postgame Interview With Coach Notebaert
Postgame Interview With Freshman Tyler Reistetter
 
KINGS POINT, N.Y. (May 8, 2021) – The #1-seed U.S. Merchant Marine Academy baseball team will play for the Skyline Conference Championship on Sunday after the Mariners defeated the #2-seed Old Westbury Panthers, 4-1, Saturday at Bartoszek Field. USMMA will play the winner of the OW vs. #4-seed SUNY Maritime game (currently underway) on Sunday at 12-noon needing just one more win to claim the conference title.
 
Freshman Tyler Reistetter (Dickinson, Texas) got the start and, after allowing a first-inning run, settled down to fire seven strong innings, giving up just three hits while striking out three. Senior Andrew Hunt (Severna Park, Md.) came in in relief in the eighth and picked up his eighth save of the year, allowing just two hits and fanning three.
 
The Mariners tied the score up at 1-1 in the top of the fourth on an RBI bunt single by junior Zac Skov (San Clemente, Calif.) that brought in classmate Brayden O'Connell (Beaver Dams, N.Y.). They took the lead with three unearned runs in the top of the fifth after a single by sophomore Joey Zanetti (Richmond, Va.) plated senior Timmy Chase (Scituate, Mass.), and then junior Garrett Aichele (Bainbridge Island, Wash.) added insurance with a two-RBI single that scored senior Jack McCann (Newark, Del.) and Zanetti.
 
To view the box score from the game, click here.
 
A full recap of the game will be available later in the day on Saturday on www.USMMASports.com.
 
Sunday's game will beginning at 12-noon and will feature live stats and a live video feed with links available on the USMMA Baseball Schedule Page. A second game, if needed, will begin 30 minutes after the end of the first.
 
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