St. John Fisher University Athletics

Pettinella led Fisher to three wins in the ECAC Upstate Championship Tournament, as the No. 2 seed Cardinals advanced through the four-team field to claim the Championship. He batted .538 in the three games (7-for-13), while scoring a team-high seven runs.  He also posted three runs batted in, tripled twice and blasted his sixth home run of the season.

The Cardinals opened the week with a 10-8 win over the Golden Eagles of No. 3 SUNY Brockport. Pettinella was 2-for-4 in the game with a home run in the first inning and a sacrifice fly in the four-run Fisher seventh. The Cardinals had led twice in the game at 3-0 and 6-3, but Brockport rallied to take an 8-6 lead before Fisher made the final push late in the game to earn the win. 

Pettinella came through again with two hits and three runs scored in the Cardinals’ 11-8 upset win of No.1 SUNY Fredonia that advanced Fisher to the finals. The Cardinals used four runs in the top half of the first in the wire-to-wire win, and added four more in the fifth frame to take an 8-4 lead. Pettinella singled and came around to score an unearned run in the Fisher sixth, as the Cardinals put the game out of reach, 11-6, with three more runs.

In the final game, the lefty outfielder picked up his second triple of the week, and finished 3-for-5 with two runs scored, as Fisher hung a 12-3 loss on Brockport. Although the Golden Eagles trimmed a 4-0 lead to just one run after four innings, the Cardinals scored a run in each of the final four innings, including a five-run sixth, while holding Brockport scoreless to earn the win.

For the season he finished with a .345 batting average (48-for-139), while tying for the team lead with six home runs. He collected 31 RBI and led the team with 90 total bases.