Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team opened its 2013 campaign with a 6-4 win over Bloomfield College in non-conference action at Bonomo Field on Monday. The Panthers, who open with a win for the fifth straight season, improve to 1-0 while the Deacons fall to 0-1.
For the Panthers, junior
Richard Mejia delivered the go-ahead RBI double in the bottom of the eighth inning to put Adelphi up 3-2. Senior
Anthony Infante smacked an RBI double as well, and junior
Kevin Hutzel added a sacrifice fly to give the Panthers enough insurance to hold on for the win. Sophomore
Vincent Sharkey went 3-for-4 with an RBI double, while classmate
Nick Zito doubled and scored a pair of runs.
On the mound, graduate student
Chris Pabisch started and went three innings, striking out six and allowing just one hit. Sophomore
Mike Cranston tossed three innings without an earned run, junior
Matt Abramowitz threw a perfect frame in the seventh, and sophomore
Vincent Caputo earned the win in an inning in relief. Senior
Dillon McNamara worked around a pair of unearned runs and struck out two batters to close out the ninth inning.
For Bloomfield, Felipe Medrano singled three times and Joe Meola had a pair of hits, scored a run and drove in a run. Josh Chesler was tagged with the loss in 3.2 innings of relief.
Adelphi broke three innings of scoreless baseball with a pair of unearned runs in the fourth. Zito blooped a one-out double and scored after a
Kyle Ambury dribbler in front of the plate provoked a throwing error. Hutzel followed with a base hit to bring Ambury around and give the Panthers a 2-0 lead.
The Deacons got a run back in the fifth on a Jonattan Hernandez sacrifice fly that plated Kyle Murzyn, who reached on an error. Both teams saw their bats go cold over the next two innings, but Bloomfield tied the game at 2-2 in the eighth. Joe Meola drew a walk and with two outs, Reyvis Rivas flared a well-placed single to center, allowing Meola to speed around the bases and score from first. The Panthers answered back in a big way, however, and posted four runs on three doubles in the bottom half of the eighth.
McNamara came on the ninth and surrendered an RBI double to David Rivera that plated an unearned run. A strikeout and groudout faced the Deacons with their final out, but Meola squibbed an infield hit to score Rivera and make it a 6-4 game. McNamara buckled down, however, and promptly struck out the last batter of the game.
The Panthers return to action on Wednesday when they host Dowling College at 3 p.m.
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