The Seton Hall baseball team had a tough outing against in-state rival Monmouth Wednesday as the Hawks jumped on the Pirates early en route to a 10-3 victory.
John LaRocca got things started for the Hawks with a leadoff double off of Billy Layne Jr., which was followed by two consecutive singles, bringing LaRocca across the plate. Layne appeared to get things under control after striking out two straight, but after hitting Matt Graber with a pitch and some mental errors in the field, Monmouth scored two more in the inning to take a 3-0 lead.
The Pirates scored a run of their own in the bottom of the first inning when Mike Alescio came up with the RBI single to score Al Molina and make it a 3-1 game.