Box Score
Miami Shores, Fla. - The Adelphi University baseball team wound up on the defensive end of an offensive showcase by #22 Barry University, who handed the Panthers a 23-2 loss at Feinbloom Field on Tuesday evening. Adelphi slips to 3-4-1 with the loss while the nationally-ranked Buccaneers win their seventh straight to improve to 17-7 overall.
Eight Barry batters recorded multiple hits, led by Joe Iorio who went 4-7 with a double and a grand slam. Michael Diaz also homered to cap a 2-6 day with a team-best five RBI. Tyler Kinley got the win on the hill, throwing the first three innings of scoreless baseball while scattering four hits and striking out a pair. The Bucs used six separate relievers who threw an inning apiece and combined to allow just two runs on six hits.
For Adelphi,
Vincent Sharkey and
Donato Signore each had two hits at the top of the lineup, and seniors
Anthony Zarrella and
Anthony Infante each ripped an RBI base hit.
Matt Abramowitz suffered the loss on the mound in 2.1 innings of work. The Barry bats were not kind to Adelphi pitchings as none of the five Panther pitchers escaped without getting tagged for at least one run.
The Bucs struck early and plated four runs in the bottom half of the first, all with two outs. Luis Arrizurieta smacked a one-out double to right center and moved to third on a ground out. Tyler Kellman then hit a lined shot back to the mound and Abramowitz knocked it down, but the ball deflected to the third base side, allowing Arrizurieta to score the game's first run. Michael Slabach kept the inning going by lifting a long fly ball to left that carried to the wall for a one-run triple, JC Cardenas reached on a hit-by-pitch and Iorio rolled a grounder to third that Signore couldn't glove to plate Slabach. Tim Blackman ripped a base hit through the left side to score Cardenas from second, making it a 4-0 game after one.
Barry then blew things open with six runs on six hits in the second. After a leadoff double, English worked a walk after falling behind 0-2, everyone moved up on a passed ball and the Panthers put Kellman on intentionally to load the bases with one out. Slabach watched ball four go by for an RBI base-on-balls, setting the stage for Slabach to make it a 7-0 game with a two-run single to right. Iorio followed with a line drive to left to bring Kellman in to score, and Tim Blackmon made it three straight hits with an RBI base knock through the left side. Diaz pushed the lead to an even 10-0 with Barry's fourth consecutive hit.
Adelphi threatened in the third as
Kyle Ambury led off with a slicing line drive single to left center and
John Campbell made it first and second with one out with a pushed bunt single down the third base line. Sharkey loaded the bases with a scorching hit up the middle, but a bullet throw from behind the plate caught Sharkey picked off at first for the second out and a fly ball retired the side.
Barry put four more across in the bottom of the third. Kellman laced his third single of the game to put the leadoff man aboard in the bottom of the third and a one-out walk spurred a call to the bullpen for
Justin Cusano to make his collegiate debut. Iorio greeted him with a double off the left field wall to score a run and make it 11-0. Blackmon walked to load the bases and Diaz blooped a ball to shallow left, but Infante saved two runs with a sliding catch. A walk and dropped fly ball brought three more across, but Infante made his second impressive catch of the inning as he ranged back to grab the inning-ending lineout.
Diaz delivered a staggering blow in the fourth with a grand slam to right center, making it 19-0 after a five-run frame.
John Donnelly held the Buccaneers to their first scoreless frame in the fifth, squandering a one-out single with a fly out and nasty breaking ball to seal the third out with a backwards K. Barry would later surpass the 20-run mark on a bases-loaded RBI single to straight away center and made it 21-0 after seven on a Kellman fielder's choice.
The Panthers cracked the scoreboard in the top the eighth as a Sharkey single and Signore walk set up runners at first and second with one out. Zarrella then muscled a single the opposite way to bring in Sharkey from second and Infante pushed another run across with a line drive to right center that scored Hutzel, who reached as the leadoff man with a base hit up the middle. Kevin Youst would secure the final two outs on the mound, however, with a ground out and a strikeout.
Adelphi returns to action tomorrow when the Panthers head to Ft. Lauderdale to take on Nova Southeastern University at 6 p.m.
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