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Lantana, Fla. - The Adelphi University baseball team dropped a 4-2 decision to UMass Lowell in non-conference action at the Santaluces Sports Complex on Friday. The Panthers dropped to 6-4 and were hurt by three errors in the loss, while the River Hawks improved to 6-6 on the season.

Lowell starting pitcher Tyler Toyfair picked up his second win of the season, throwing 6.1 innings and allowing two runs on five hits. Dallas Nunes earned his third save and silenced the Adelphi bats in the late innings via 2.1 no-hit innings of relief.

For Adelphi, Dillon McNamara suffered the tough-luck loss and allowed his first earned runs of the season in five innings of five-hit baseball. Stephen Bove, Chris Murphy and James McCormack combined for four innings of shutout relief to keep the Panthers in the game, but the Adelphi offense couldn't solve Nunes in time to muster a rally.

Junior Anthony Zarrella cracked a two-out triple in the bottom of the first and scored on a wild pitch to tie the game at 1-1, but two River Hawk runs in the fourth and an unearned run in the fifth gave Lowell enough room to hold on for the win.

The Panthers threatened in the seventh, loading the bases on a pinch-hit single by Richard Mejia, and sophomore Chad Houghton chopped a fielder's choice that plated the second Adelphi run, but a groundout ended the threat and Nunes shut down the Panthers the rest of the way.

Adelphi returns to action with a rematch against the River Hawks tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Santaluces in the Panthers' final game of their Florida trip.