Baseball: Passaic County Tournament First Round: Hawthorne 5, DePaul 3

DePaul pitcher Kevin Croucher went six innings allowing nine hits and striking out 10. DePaul struck for a run in the third and fourth. After two errors, Mike Lembo delivered Matt Betz with a sacrifice fly. In the fourth, the Wayne team grabbed a 2-0 advantage when Nick Fondacaro delivered an inside-the-par home run. The ball rolled out of the reach of the center fielder and was retrieved at the softball backstop. Hawthorne, however, responded with three runs in the fifth. Claudio Petruccelli led off with a single, but Croucher struck out the next two batters. Then Kevin Hancock smashed a two-run homer over the fence in right-center and Scott Koningswood lined another homer almost to the same spot. Hancock also hit a single in the third.