The City College of New York baseball team picked up their first victory of the season in the second game of a doubleheader against St. Joseph's Brooklyn on Saturday. In game one, City fell 10-9 and then Adrian Pena's grand slam in the seventh inning pushed CCNY over the Bears 8-7. 

Game One 
This would be a big day Adrian Pena and he started it all in the first inning of game one. After Anthony Cacchione singled to get himself on base and stole second, Pena hit his second home run of the season to give CCNY a 2-0 lead. 

Neither team would get anything across until St. Joseph's Brooklyn came up in the third inning with a solo home-run. City still held onto a 2-1 lead. 

It would be a game of home-runs as the Bears came up with a two-run home-run in the fourth inning to take a 3-2 lead. 

In the fifth inning, Cacchione reached base after being walked to bring up Michael Siklas. Siklas would hit the fourth home-run of the game, and the second for the Beavers. Siklas's runs would give CCNY a 4-3 lead. St. Joseph's chipped away at the lead and tied the game 4-4 before following in City's footsteps with a home-run. The fifth home-run of the game would be recorrded. It was a three-run homer that pushed the Bears back in the lead 7-4 lead. 

The Beavers would get it started again in the seventh inning as Brendan Murphy doubled to left field. After Cacchione singled and Siklas walked, Pena singled to bring in Murphy for the first run of the inning as City trailed 7-5. Rob Mandich followed that up with a single down the left field line that brought in both Cacchione and Siklas for a 7-7 tie game. Antonio Elmy was hit by a pitch which advanced Mandich to second. Uche Nwokelo would score Pena on a sacrifice fly for the go-ahead run for the Beavers. Mandich would score off of a throwing error before CCNY's big inning would come to a close. City led 9-7 as the Bears came up in the bottom of the seventh.

The Bears took everything they had and scored three runs off of three hits to end the game with St. Joseph's taking the victory 10-9.

Cacchione started on the mound for the Beavers and pitched 4.2 innings. He struck out five of his 26 batters faced. He gave up seven runs off of nine hits. Lorenzo Hiraldo came in for the final 1.2 innings and gave up three runs off of four hits, two of the runs were earned. 

Game Two
St. Joseph's Brooklyn started the game off with a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first. 

City would get nothing across in the first innings of the game. The Bears picked up a pair of runs in the third inning and four runs in fourth inning for a 7-0 lead. 

CCNY would get the bats started in the fifth inning. Uche Nwokelo hit his second home run of the season for the Beavers first run of the second game. After the fifth inning, City trailed 7-1.

City would keep things going in the sixth inning starting with Cacchione, Siklas and Pena all recording a hit to get on base. Mandich would record the fourth hit of the inning to bring in Cacchione. Elmy Antonio followed with a single to score Siklas. Nwokelo would score Pena on a sacrifice fly to left field. City trailed 7-4 heading into the final inning. 

With just one more shot at taking the lead the Beavers came out strong. Matt Sola-Baker would reach on an error and advance to second with Cacchione's single. Siklas would tally another hit to load the bases bringing Pena up to the plate. Pena's third home-run of the season would be a grand slam that pushed the Beavers to a 8-7 lead.

The Bears would get nothing across in the bottom of the seventh inning and City would take home their first victory of the season 8-7.

Sacha Urbach started on the mound for City and pitched the first 4.0 innings. He struck out three and gave up seven runs, five were earned. Jeffery Diaz, who recorded the win for CCNY came in relief for the 3.0 innings. He only gave up one hit and struck out three in his solid relief effort. 

City will travel to face SUNY Maritime on Wednesday, March 23. First pitch is set for 7 p.m.