Ben Sydel scores.

Matt Cook allowed just two runs on Thursday at Pier 40, but Hitmen couldn’t get the offense going in a 3-2 defeat to HS Environmental Studies. Cook was in control on the mound holding HS Environmental Studies hitless over 5 2/3 innings, allowing one earned run and striking out six.

Junpei Taguchi scored the first run of the game in the fifth inning on an error by the third baseman after a walk, and two stolen bases. Ben Sydel scored in the the sixth to give the Hitmen a 2-0 lead, but Environmental came back in the bottom of the sixth to tie and won with a walkoff single to right field an inning later.