(Bronx, NY) – Junior Benjamin Susswein (Yonkers, NY/MTA) pitched eight nearly flawless innings as he did not allow an earned run and struck out 11, and sophomore Jamie Englehardt (E. Brunswick, NJ/Rav Teitz Mesivta Academy) drove in the winning run in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Yeshiva University Baseball team scored its first win since May 3, 2007 with a 3-2 victory over CCNY at Taft High School. With the win, YU is now 1-9 overall.

The win breaks a 40-game losing streak for the Maccabees, who last scored a win over Lehman College late in the 2007 season. The win was the third in the history of Yeshiva University Baseball.

CCNY got on the board early, scoring two unearned runs in the top of the third inning, and from there a pitching duel commenced with both sides getting outstanding performances on the mound. Yeshiva finally broke through in the bottom of the fifth inning when Max Gornish (St. Louis, MO/Block Yeshiva) doubled home Aaron Korda (Los Angeles, CA/YULA) to make it 2-1.

Things got more exciting in the bottom of the eighth inning when Gornish led off with a triple, and Jeremy Schwartz (Brooklyn, NY/MTA) followed up with an RBI single to tie the score 2-2. After two consecutive walks loaded the bases, Englehardt was walked, scoring Schwartz, to give Yeshiva a 3-2 lead.

CCNY came up with one last rally in the top of the ninth inning as the Beavers loaded the bases with one out, and Zach Weiner (Sharon, MA/Maimonides) came on in relief. Weiner promptly induced a CCNY double-play to give Yeshiva the win and Weiner his first career save.

Weiner, Schwartz, Gornish, and Seth Fein (Woodmere, NY/Hebrew Academy of Long Beach) each went 2 for 4 with Gornish and Schwartz each driving in a run and scoring a run. Overall, Yeshiva outhit CCNY 9-7 and each team committed three errors.

But the story of the night was Susswein, who was simply fantastic. The junior broke a Yeshiva Baseball record for strikeouts in a game en route to his first career win.

The Maccabees return to action tomorrow afternoon when they travel to Baseball Heaven in Yaphank, New York to meet Mount Saint Vincent for a 12:00 p.m. Skyline Conference doubleheader.