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Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team split a Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division doubleheader against Le Moyne College, winning game one 3-2 and falling in game two 8-2 at William J. Bonomo Field on Sunday. The Panthers move to 11-10 overall and 3-2 in the division after handing the Dolphins their first divisional loss, while Le Moyne improves to 20-5-1 overall and 3-1 in the division after winning two out of three games in the weekend series.
Dillon McNamara got the win on the mound in the nightcap, tossing six innings of one-run ball while scattering six hits and fanning five batters.
Matt Abramowitz got the save with a perfect ninth inning, and
James McCormack coaxed two outs to silence the Dolphin bats in the eighth. In game two,
Jeff Andersen was tagged with the loss after allowing four runs in two innings.
Stephen Bove pitched 4.2 innings and allowed just one run on three hits, and
Chris Pabisch threw a combined 2.1 innings with four strikeouts between the two games.
Richard Mejia went 4-8 on the day and scored a run, and
Anthony Zarrella had two hits including a solo home run in the bottom of the first inning of the first game.
Rich Cambria went 3-5 with a double in the opener, and
Craig Matteo and
Jamie Liebowitz each had two hits in the nightcap.
In the opener, Zarrella put the Panthers on the board early with a two-out bomb to right center, and a two-run double by Cambria opened up a 3-0 lead in the fourth. The Dolphins picked up single runs in the fifth and eighth innings, but Abramowitz retired the side on order in the ninth to pick up the save.
Le Moyne struck early in game two, plating a run in the first followed but three runs in the second to take a 4-0 lead. The fifth saw Adelphi get a pair back after
Justin Farnum smacked a two-run double, but the Panthers would go scoreless the rest of the way. A wild pitch in the seventh and three runs on three hits in the ninth plated insurance runs for the Dolphins, who walked away with an 8-2 win and two out of three games in the series.
The Panthers begin a stretch of six road games with an NE-10 Southwest Division contest at Pace University on Tuesday at 3:30 p.m.
