The St. Thomas Aquinas baseball team beat Molloy College, 7-2 in today's ECC game. The Spartans went 3-2 against the Lions for the series. Freshman Mike Apreda went 3-for-3 with 2 RBI and a run while Matt Marotta went 2-for-3 with 3 RBI's and a run.
Marotta hit an RBI single followed by a 2 RBI single from Apreda to put STAC ahead 3-0. The Spartans added four more runs in the 5th as Matt Smith added an RBI single to score Apreda. David Schwartz had an RBI sac-fly to score Kevin Ryan. Marotta added a 2 RBI single to give STAC a 7-0 lead. Molloy added two runs in the ninth. Mike Aviles had the win for STAC pitching 6 scoreless innings giving up 3 hits and striking out 3.
STAC will travel to Mercy College on Friday for a single game and then play their final regular season home game on Saturday at RCC. Saturday's game will be a double header beginning at 11:00 am.