Box Score (Highland, NY) - After the week began with a difficult loss to an Orange Community College Baseball team that Westchester Community College had dominated during the first three games of their series, Vikings sophomore Paul Franzese (Somers, NY/Somers HS) did not complain. He did not sulk. He did not pout. Instead, the next time he stepped on to the baseball field, Franzese took out his frustrations on a baseball, and four hits, two home runs, and seven RBI's later, the Westchester CC was victorious again, this time defeating Ulster Community College, 14-5 on Thursday at SUNY Ulster.

With their fourth win during the last five games, Westchester improves to 12-8, and more importantly, is now 4-1 in Region XV and Mid Hudson Conference play.

The teams played even baseball during the first three innings, but it was during the fourth inning that Franzese and company took over. CJ Sager (Mahopac, NY/Mahopac HS) singled home Jose Delacruz (New York, NY/George Washington HS) to break the tie, and put Westchester into the lead for good. After James Houlahan (Yorktown Heights, NY/Lakeland HS) singled home Sager, Franzese destroyed a one strike pitch over the right field fence to make it 6-1. Later in the inning, Bobby Wootten (Ardsley, NY/Ardsley HS) scored on a wild pitch for a 7-1 lead. Ulster scored a run during the bottom of the frame to close the gap just a bit.

An inning later, Westchester scored two more runs to make it 9-2, but three runs by the hosts during the bottom of the fifth inning made it a 9-5 game.

During the top of the ninth inning, Westchester put the game away. With one out, Sager singled home Delacruz to make it 10-5. Three batters later, Scottie Giordano (Croton, NY/Croton-Harmon HS) singled home Sean Vanegas (Bronx, NY/Mount St. Michael) for an 11-5 lead. Then Franzese ended the scoring in resounding fashion, smashing a home run over the right centerfield fence to score three runs, and give WCC the nine run win.

Delacruz, Sager, and Houlahan had two hits apiece for Westchester.

Michael Matalavage (Croton, NY/Croton-Harmon HS) earned the win after pitching 2.2 innings of shutout ball in relief of Nick Cona (Cortlandt Manor, NY/Panas HS), who pitched another strong game for WCC. Steve Messerschmitt (Carmel, NY/Carmel HS) gave the Vikings 2.1 solid innings of relief without allowing a run.

The two teams return to action on Friday, April 13 at 3:30 p.m. at SUNY Ulster.