HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. – LIU baseball took a trip to Hofstra to take on the Pride in midweek action, winning 9-5 on Tuesday afternoon. Four different players had multi-hit games as LIU piled up 11 hits to eclipse double digit hits for the second time in the last four outings. With the victory, the Sharks improve to 17-11 overall.
 
The game began with Seth Surrett getting hit by a pitch and Michael Edelman drawing a four-pitch walk. The Sharks executed the double steal to put runners on second and third, making way for Giovanni Ciaccio to hit a sacrifice fly to center, taking an early 1-0 lead. Hofstra tagged a solo home run in the bottom half to give each team one run apiece after the first inning.
 
LIU did not waste time to answer in the second when Christopher Wasson led off the frame with a solo shot to left, his first of the season, to retake the lead. The Sharks would put two more runners on base, and Surrett would bat in Bentley Boekhout to give Garrett Yawn a 3-1 cushion. Yawn three four pitches that resulted in three outs in the second to keep the lead firm. 
 
In the third, the Sharks scored another run on a wild pitch, bringing the lead to 4-1. Yawn would again throw a scoreless frame, getting out of a jam with two runners on. Yet again, the Sharks scored their fifth run in the fourth on a SAC fly from Surrett to take a 5-1 lead.
 
The Pride cut the deficit to one run in the bottom of the fifth, but Surrett batted in his third run of the game in the sixth on a triple to score Christopher Hund. Edelman singled to center to score Surrett to stretch the lead back to 7-4. It was 7-5, LIU, heading into the seventh. 
 
Neither team would score again until the ninth when the Sharks added two insurance runs on RBI singles from Wasson and Connor Price. Nick DeSalvo forced a strikeout, gourndout, and fly out to close down the game, 9-5. 
 
Yawn earned his first win of 2022, and the reliever combination of Shane Tucker, Chris Buehler, RJ Latkowski, and DeSalvo combined to throw four innings, giving up only one hit and one earned run. 
 
Up next, the Sharks will travel to Central Connecticut State for a three-game series beginning on Friday, April 8 at 3:00 p.m.