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PATCHOGUE, N.Y. | Junior third baseman Nolan White (Miller Place, N.Y.) went 2-for-3 Friday afternoon at Gregg Alfano Field, including the game-winning, walk-off single through the left side in the bottom of the ninth inning to send second-seeded Farmingdale State College into the winner's bracket of the 2022 Skyline Conference Baseball Championship with a 2-1, come-from-behind victory over No. 3-seed College of Mount Saint Vincent.
The Rams (22-13), who received a complete-game six-hitter on the mound with 11 strikeouts from senior righty and Skyline Conference Pitcher of the Year Stephen Clancy (Mineola, N.Y.), will next play Saturday at 2 p.m. against fourth-seeded U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (a 12-10 victor in the opening contest Friday over top-seeded St. Joseph's-Long Island) in the winner's bracket contest.
The Dolphins (26-16) broke through in a pitcher's duel between Clancy and MSV's Andrew Geiger (Naples, Fla.) in the top of the sixth inning, when Tyler Paulino (New York, N.Y.) lofted a sacrifice fly to score Michael Grisanti (Massapequa, N.Y.) with the first run of the game.
FSC knotted the game at 1-all in the home half of the eighth inning, when Jordan Lambert (Plainview, N.Y.) laced a two-out single to left field to score senior all-conference outfielder Vincent Napolitano (Bellmore, N.Y.) from second base with the tying run.
The Rams' left fielder, Justin DiMartino (Bethpage, N.Y.), led off the bottom of the ninth inning with a base-knock to right-center field, before moving up 90 feet on a sacrifice bunt to the right side by Richard Apollo Jr. (Seaford, N.Y.). DiMartino then stole third base during White's at-bat, before the latter provided the walk-off magic by taking the 2-2 pitch through the left side of the Mount Saint Vincent infield to give Farmingdale State the triumph.
Grisanti for the Dolphins, as well as White and Apollo for the Rams, each collected two-hit afternoons. Geiger tossed 7.2 innings of four-hit ball for MSV, fanning 10.
Clancy fired 93 of his 129 pitches on the afternoon to move to 9-1 on the season.