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The St. Joseph's University-Long Island and Farmingdale State College baseball teams combined prior to their doubleheader on April 18, 2025, to raise mental health awareness
St. Joseph's (left) and Farmingdale State combined to raise mental health awareness before the teams' doubleheader on Friday
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Winner Farmingdale State FSC 16-9
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI 17-11
Winner
Farmingdale State FSC
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Final
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E
Farmingdale State FSC 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 2 4 8 0
St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 6 1

W: Dougherty, Johnny (3-1) L: D. Morabito (2-3) S: Dorosh, Roman (1)

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Winner Farmingdale State FSC 17-9
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI 17-12
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Farmingdale State FSC
17-9
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Final
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St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI
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Score By Periods
Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 R H E
Farmingdale State FSC 1 0 0 0 4 0 2 7 10 0
St. Joseph's (L.I.) SJLI 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 6 0

W: Kelly, Dennis (3-1) L: P. Manger (2-1)

Game Recap: Baseball |

Baseball Takes Two at St. Joseph's-Long Island; Teams Combine to Raise Mental Health Awareness

Game 1: Farmingdale State 4, St. Joseph's-Long Island 2 (9 inn.)
Game 2: Farmingdale State 7, St. Joseph's-Long Island 1
FARMINGDALE, N.Y. | The Farmingdale State College baseball team moved to 10-2 in Skyline Conference play on Friday afternoon, as the Rams swept a doubleheader at defending champion St. Joseph's University-Long Island. FSC picked up an extra-innings, 4-2 victory in the opening game, before capturing a 7-1 decision to complete the sweep.

Prior to the doubleheader, the teams combined in a pre-game ceremony to raise awareness for mental health, in hopes of breaking the silence and ending the stigma around the topic. The coaching staffs from both sides had planned the event several weeks before Friday's meeting, and the teams wore matching t-shirts prior to first pitch to showcase their collective efforts.

Game 1

St. Joseph's notched solo home runs in the bottom of the first and fourth innings to take a 2-0 lead on Farmingdale State senior right-handed pitcher Johnny Dougherty (Kings Park, N.Y.) in the scheduled seven-inning opener. FSC plated two runs in the top of the fifth to tie the score, with sophomore Aiden Mehmel (Mastic Beach, N.Y.) coming home when freshman shortstop Kaolis Delacruz (Levittown, N.Y.) worked a two-out, bases-loaded walk, before senior first baseman Jordan Lambert (Plainview, N.Y.) reached on an infield single to drive in senior Tyler DiRocco (Commack, N.Y.) with the tying run.

Outside of the two homers, Dougherty allowed just two other runners to reach second base across the regulation seven innings, before working out of a jam in the bottom of the eighth to notch his career-high 12th strikeout of the afternoon with the bases loaded to end the Golden Eagles' potential game-winning threat.

The Rams used Dougherty's inning-ending strikeout to their advantage, as they scored two runs in the top of the ninth inning to go ahead by a 4-2 count. Junior outfielder Richie Heyder (Holbrook, N.Y.) stepped up with the bases loaded and one out, and ripped a double to left field to plate junior Christian Villacci (Smithtown, N.Y.) and sophomore Ryan Tam (Wantagh, N.Y.), who entered the game as a pinch-runner and pinch-hitter, respectively.

In the bottom of the ninth, senior righty Roman Dorosh (Holbrook, N.Y.) worked around a one-out hit batsman and picked up his first save of the season to close out the Farmingdale State triumph.

Heyder went 3-for-5 in the opener, with Lambert checking in with a 2-for-5 display at the dish. Dougherty's 12 strikeouts are tied for third on the program's all-time single-game leaderboard, sitting only behind the 13 punch-outs registered by Josh Deitch (at Maritime; April 10, 2005) and current Detroit Tigers-affiliated minor leaguer Matt Seelinger (at Maritime; April 29, 2017). Dougherty moved his record to 3-1 on the season, and has now struck out 55 hitters in his 40.2 innings of work in 2025.

Game 2

DiRocco led off the nightcap with a home run to left field to put Farmingdale State (17-9) ahead of St. Joseph's (17-12, 8-4 Skyline), 1-0.

The Golden Eagles leveled the game at 1-1 in the bottom of the third inning, before FSC went ahead for good with a four-run top of the fifth. Junior Mike Kocovic (Mahopac, N.Y.) put the visitors ahead for good when his two-out double to left field scored Villacci, before a two-run triple to center by DiRocco plated sophomore Vincent Deiosso (Glenwood Landing, N.Y.) and Kocovic. One batter later, DiRocco trotted home on Heyder's double into the right-center field gap, putting FSC in front by a 5-1 count.

Delacruz rounded out the scoring in the top of the seventh frame, when his two-out, two-run homer to left field was the first round-tripper of his collegiate career. 

Sophomore righty Dennis Kelly (North Babylon, N.Y.) tossed four full innings of scoreless relief to up his record to 3-1 on the season, as he scattered two hits and two walks while fanning four. DiRocco (2 R, 3 RBI), Heyder (R, RBI) and Delacruz (R, 2 RBI) all went 2-for-4 in the first-through-third slots in the Rams' batting order, respectively.

Farmingdale State next returns to Skyline Conference action on Saturday, April 26, when it travels to Throggs Neck, N.Y., for a noontime doubleheader at Maritime College.
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