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Baseball Drops Both Games Of Doubleheader To Wilmington

March 13, 2011

Box Score

Lantana, Fla. - The Adelphi University baseball team took on Wilmington (DE) University on Saturday in a non-conference doubleheader in Lantana, FLoria. Adelphi lost the first game, 6-1, and fell in the second, 4-0. Wilmington improves to 2-0, while Adelphi falls to 4-5-1.

Game One

Wilmington held a slim 1-0 lead for most of the game until the Panthers tied the scored in the top half of the sixth inning. WIlmington would then re-gain their one-run lead in the bottom of the sixth inning.

Wilmington would then blow the game wide open, putting up four runs in the bottom of the eighth inning.

Senior Robert Nixon suffered a tough loss, striking out 11 in seven innings of work and giving up two earned runs. The Panthers bullpen would let up four runs (two earned) in just one inning of work.

Offensively, senior Richard McCarren and sophomore Anthony Zarrella each went 2-for-4 in the loss.

Game Two

The Panthers used five pitchers in game two of their double dip with Wilmington, giving up just four hits. Stephen Bove got things started on the mound, tossing four innings, striking out seven and giving up just one run in two hits. The only run that Wilmington got off of Bove came in the second courtesy of a single to center a stolen base and then two passed balls brought home the Wilmington runner.

John Donnelly was the second Panther to take the rubber, entering in the fifth and throwing 1.1 innings of one run and one hit relief and giving up the ball up in the sixth with Adelphi behind 2-0. Oren Rasowsky, Matt Abramowitz and Chris Murphy combined to throw the final five outs of the game, giving up just one hit between them but two runs as Adelphi lost, 4-0.

Offensively the Panthers managed six base runners on three hits and three walks, getting their best scoring chances in the fifth and sixth innings as Richard Mejia and Omar Velazquez reached third. However, Adelphi was unable to get them across the plate, striking out in the fifth and producing another strike out and a fly out to center in the sixth.

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