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Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team dropped both ends of its opening Northeast-10 Conference doubleheader against non-divisional foe Saint Anselm College by scores of 10-7 (12 innings) and 9-6 at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Saturday. The Panthers fall to 7-7-1 overall and 0-2 in NE-10 play while the Hawks improve to 6-9-1 and 2-0 in league action.
Brandon Stahl led all hitters with a 6-10 performance on the day with a double, two RBI, two runs scored and two walks for the Panthers.
Anthony Zarrella had four hits, including a game-tying two-run home run in the opener and three RBIs with a double in the nightcap.
Matt Abramowitz suffered the loss in relief in the extra-inning opening affair, while starter
Mike Cranston went 3.1 innings in game two's setback.
For Saint Anselm, Dan Lagasse went 5-8 on the day with a double and scored four times. Mike Hayden batted 3-5 in game two with a two-bagger and a pair each of runs and RBI, while Robert Kelly doubled to finish the day with three hits. William O'Connor was ellusive in four innings of relief to get the win in game one, while David Kent tossed eight frames for the second game victory.
Game One
The Panthers chased the Hawks for most of game one, falling behind early due to a two-run first and four-run fifth for the visitors. Adelphi pulled within a run, 3-2, after
Nick Zito's RBI infield single to cap a two-run third inning, but Saint Anselm used four hits, a walk and an error to push four across in the fifth and take a 6-3 advantage.
The hosts pulled within a run in the seventh when
Kevin Hutzel delivered a clutch two-out, two-run pinch hit single up the middle to make it 6-5, but the Hawks answered with an unearned run in the eighth.
Vincent Caputo limited the damage, however, and chalked up back-to-back strikeouts to escape a bases-loaded jam.
Zarrella knotted the game at 7-7 in the bottom of the eighth by turning on Terrence Walsh fastball for a two-run blast to left center field. Those would be the only runs for either teams over the next three innings as the bullpens for both sides buckled down for shutout stanzas.
Dillon McNamara threw two scoreless innings for Adelphi, while O'Connor went the last four for the Hawks while allowing just one hit and retiring 12 of the 14 batters he faced.
Saint Anselm brought across a pair of runs in the 12th to take the lead for good. Lagasse poked a one-out single and stole second, then Rett Ostafin walked. Both runners moved up on a wild pitch. A walk loaded the bases and another wild pitch, this one rattling around the backstop, allowed Lagasse and Ostafin both to score to make it 10-7.
Game Two
The Hawks came out swinging in the nightcap and rattled off four straight singles to start the game and take a 3-0 lead. Adelphi quickly grabbed two back in the bottom of the first, starting with Stahl's leadoff single. Signore reached on an error, Zarrella smoked a ball to right field for an RBI double and
Vinny Gaetano brought home a second run on a sacrifice fly.
The Panthers took their first lead of the day the next inning when
Ray Triano's RBI ground out and Stahl's one-run single made it 2-2, but the Hawks regained the lead with a four-spot in the top of the third. Three walks, a double and three singles gave the visitors a 7-4 lead, but the Saint Anselm bats weren't done as evident by Lagasse's RBI double and Joe Morin's one-run base knock to assemble a two-run fourth frame.
Adelphi's bullpen cast of
Nikolas Batas,
Ricky Van Allen and
John Bivas would collectively shut down the Hawk hitters the rest of the way and combined for 5.2 innings of no-run, four-hit baseball, but the Panthers could only muster two more runs the rest of the way. Triano triple, Stahl doubled and Signore ripped a three-bagger for a trio of extra-base hits that made it a 9-6 game, but Kent threw up his fourth 1-2-3 inning of the game in the eighth to set the stage for Trabucco's scoreless ninth.
The Panthers return to action tomorrow when the host Saint Michael's College for an NE-10 doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.
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