TCNJ Delivers in Glus Debut

Media Release

Tempe, AZ—-The College of New Jersey baseball team tallied a 7-2 victory over Concordia University (IL) on Friday afternoon as interim head coach Dean Glus (photo) made his debut. TCNJ, which is ranked 13th opened the new campaign by handing the previously unbeaten Concordia University Cougars a 7-2 loss to improve to 1-0, while CU drops to 6-1.

TCNJ got on the scoreboard early as junior short stop Jeff Toth (Parlin, NJ/Sayreville) connected on the first of his two home runs in the contest in the top of the first. He would add his second home run on a solo shot in the top of the fifth as the Lions built a 3-1 lead. Toth, an All-American for the Lions in 2007, now has 10 career homeruns after batting .368 last year with eight in his TCNJ rookie campaign.

TCNJ broke open the game with four runs in the top half of the seventh inning as TCNJ would knock the Cougars’ starter, senior Carl Petersen (DesPlaines, IL/Maine West) from the game after 6.1 innings of work. Petersen drops to 1-1 after allowing seven earned runs off eight hits with two strikeouts and two walks.

Replaced by both Joe Leyhane (Chicago, IL/Notre Dame) and Anthony Collaro (Melrose, Parl, IL/Walter Lutheran), Concordia was not able to recover. Collaro worked 2.2 innings and fanned four batters with just one hit allowed.

Offensively for the Lions, junior third baseman Vince Mazzaccaro (Gloucester City, NJ/Gloucester Catholic) would connect for three hits on the day with a pair of RBI’s.

TCNJ’s left handed senior pitcher Bob Buskett (Trenton, NJ/Notre Dame) worked five innings for the win as he yielded no earned runs with no hits, two strikeouts and five walks. Buskett is now 16-2 on his career and closing in on his 100th career strikeout as he has 93 to his credit thus far.

Rookie Joe Marchitelli (Jackson, NJ/Jackson Memorial) worked two innings of relief, yielding one earned run with four strikeouts off four hits. Junior Eric Gertie (Cinnaminson, NJ/Cinnaminson) pitched an inning as the Lions’ closer and fanned one with a hit on the day.

TCNJ returns to action on Saturday facing Wheaton College (MA) at 2 p.m. (MST), 4 p.m. (EST).

(NOTE: Sorry to TCNJ\’s baseball fans, but we experienced some technical difficulties on Friday as Ann King\’s laptop died in the second inning! Hence the live stats went down as did the ability to post a box score or season stats. We are hopeful that a new machine and software will find its way to Arizona by the beginning of the week. Sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused and thank you for your patience!)