The New York University baseball team won both games of a doubleheader against SUNY Canton on Friday, March 8, at MCU Park in Brooklyn. The Violets won game one 8-0, before taking the second game 13-3 to sweep the 'Roos on a cold afternoon on Coney Island.

In the first game, NYU (3-0) scored one run in the first inning and one more in the fourth, before tallying three in each of the fifth and sixth innings of the contest, which was a scheduled seven-inning game.

Canton (0-2) scored the first two runs of game two, but the Violets answered with a run in the bottom of the second inning and five more in the bottom of the third to take a decisive 6-2 lead through three innings. NYU added two more runs in the fourth and five in the fifth before the visitors scored the final run of the game in the top of the sixth to make the final score 13-3. Game two was supposed to be a nine-inning game, but it only went seven due to darkness.

Ford Ladd and Gabriel Golob earned the mound decisions for the Violets. Ladd, who tossed 5.2 shutout innings and scattered three hits and a pair of walks, is now 2-0 on the young season, while Golob is 1-0 after throwing 5.0 innings and allowing just one earned run. 

Offensively, two freshmen -Zane Baker and Grant Berman- led NYU in game one, tallying two hits each. Baker knocked in a pair of runs and reached base once on a hit by pitch. Jack Walter had a pair of extra base hits in the second game, finishing 2-for-3 with three runs scored and an RBI. Four other Violets -Ryan McLaughlin, Colman Hendershot, Coltrane Tait, and Baker, scored a pair of runs in the second game. 

The Violets are now 7-0 all-time against the 'Roos. 

NYU and SUNY Canton will wrap up their three-game series on Saturday back at MCU Park. The teams will play a single game at 11am.