Baseball Defeated by #17/18 Montclair at Home

JERSEY CITY, N.J. — The New Jersey City University baseball team hosted #17/18-ranked Montclair State University on Friday, April 19, in the second game of a back-to-back between the two New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) programs. NJCU got ahead early at the Thomas M. Gerrity Athletic Complex, but ultimately fell to the Red Hawks, 12-5, to split the regular-season series. Montclair (25-8, 7-5 NJAC) went ahead early with a leadoff home run, but rookie righthander Yannid Narvaez (Cartago La Union, Costa Rica/International Christian Academy) settled down after that. Trailing 1-0 heading into the bottom of the first, NJCU (11-18, 5-7…