82 The QUEE NS Courier • MARCH 31, 2016 for breaking news visit www.qns.com sports Blowout victories propel St. John’s baseball over the .500 mark BY COURTNEY OBENG editorial@qns.com/@qns St. John’s blew out LaSalle 15-0 game one and 9-2 game two last week, bringing their record to 11-9-1. Their overwhelming game one victory was thanks in part to Joe Nellis, a lefthanded pitcher who led a three-hit shutout and drove in five runs. Nellis racked up eight strikeouts, a career high, and allowed two hits. Nellis retired 11 batters straights before giving up his first hit to LaSalle in the fifth inning. Multiple players held multiple RBI during game one. Mark Venice, OF, held with four RBI. Both Michael Donadio, OF, and Jamie Galazin, OF/RHP, added three RBI. And Troy Dixon and Gui Gingras had two RBI. While St. John’s dominated game one, La Salle had an early lead during game two. After scoring twice in the first inning, St. Johns managed to tie, thanks to Donadio, Anthony Fava and Galazin. But an error allowed St. John’s to take a 3-2 lead in the forth. St. John’s added two runs in the fifth, one in the sixth and three in the bottom of the eighth. Queens College track stars impress in season debut Queens College sophomores Terrilyn Britton and Damira Banks raced out to a pair of victories as the men’s and women’s track and field teams made their season debut in the Stockton University Invite on Saturday, March 26. Banks was the first to make her mark while competing in the women’s 100-meter high hurdles. After excelling over the shorter, 60-meter distance that is run in indoors, the sophomore powered through a -3.2 headwind to win the event in 15.31 seconds. Competing from the second heat, Knights’ graduate senior Saralee Martelly ran well enough to finish fifth overall in 16.50 seconds. Britton’s day began with the 100-meter dash, where she edged out the victory by five-hundredths of a second in 12.55. Queens College junior Ronsheica Trotman was steady behind her in third, finishing in 12.75 seconds. Trotman was already on her second event of the day after coming painstakingly close to capturing gold in the women’s 400-meter dash. Her time of 59.66 seconds was one-hundredth of a second off the winning mark set by Joy Spriggs from The College of New Jersey. With their wins, Banks and Britton were only getting started. Banks later claimed third place in the women’s 400-meter hurdles by running 1:09.52. Britton followed suit with a secondplace run in the 200-meter dash after crossing the line in 26.34 seconds. Banks then tripled back in the meet’s final event — the 4x400-meter relay. There she teamed up with Trotman, Amira Dubisette and Kymberly Johnson, and together the group took second in 4:11.27. The Queens College men’s and women’s track and field teams compete next at the Savannah State Twilight in Savannah, Ga., as they embark on their annual trip down south for warmer weather and fast times. The event will take place Wednesday, March 30.
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