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Miami Shores, Fla. – The Adelphi University baseball team snapped Barry University's five-game win streak via a 5-2 victory at Fienbloom Field on Tuesday thanks to a four-run fourth inning and clutch relief pitching that held the Buccaneers scoreless for the final six innings. The Panthers, now 6-2 on the year, took the lead on a two-out three-run home run by junior Jacob Beard, and forced Barry, now 9-9, to strand 13 runners on base.

Beard went 2-3 and scored twice to go along with his first homer as a Panther, and freshman Donato Signore stroked a team-high three hits. Freshman Tyler Barrett knocked a pair of singles, and sophomore John Donnelly earned his first collegiate win on the hill with two innings of shutout relief. The Adelphi bullpen did not allow a run in six innings after starter Stephen Bove went three innings, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits and four walks.

For Barry, sophomore Tyler Petsch had perhaps the finest pitching performance of the day and needed just 41 pitches to get through four innings of no-hit relief to help keep the Buccaneers in the game. Corey Witkowski suffered the loss, surrendering five runs on 10 hits in five innings.  

Bove ran into trouble in the bottom of the second, beginning with a one-out single to center by Bryant Elliot that eluded Justin Farnum's glove, allowing Elliot to move up to second. Bove sat down Blackmon with a nasty changeup, but a passed ball, hit by pitch and botched pickoff attempt plated Elliot and put the Buccaneers up 1-0.

The Panthers stole one back in the top of the third, as Beard reached on a bunt single, moved to second on a groundout by Vincent Sharkey, and scooted to third on Signore's second base hit of the game. Witkowski attempted a third-to-first pickoff move and caught Signore in a rundown, but Beard broke for home and slid in just ahead of the throw, tying the game at 1-all.

Barry struck back in the bottom half of the inning as a bases loaded walk put the Buccaneers up 2-1, but Beard countered with a three-run blast that clanged off the left field foul pole to put Adelphi out in front 5-2. With one out, Anthony Zarrella, Barrett and Farnum smacked consecutive singles with Zarrella scoring on Farnum's flair to right, setting the stage for Beard to drop the head on a low-and-inside slider for a two-out three run bomb.

Donnelly took the hill in the hill in relief of Bove in the fourth, and worked back-to-back scoreless innings capped with a punch-out to end the fifth. The Panthers went down just as quietly in the fifth and sixth frames, but relievers Chris Murphy and James McCormack each tossed a scoreless inning of relief to preserve a 5-2 lead in the eighth, thanks in part to some flashy defense. In the sixth, right fielder Vinny Gaetano ran down a long fly ball to end the inning and save a run, while Signore snagged a chopper down the third base line and tagged the bag to strand the bases loaded in the seventh.

The dueling bullpens continued to battle into the eighth, with Petsch retiring the side despite surrendering a walk to Gaetano to snap his streak of eight straight Panthers retired, and senior Chris Pabisch working a 1-2-3 bottom half for Adelphi.
 
Pabisch got the ball for the ninth as well, and made quick work for the Buccaneers to pick up the save and help Adelphi hold on for their second win in Florida.
 
The Panthers return to action tomorrow when they take on Northeast-10 Conference foe American International in a non-league game at the Santaluces Sports Complex at 12 p.m.