Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team rode the arm of freshman pitcher
Jonathon Mulford back into the win column with a 7-0 shutout victory over Dominican College in non-league action at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Tuesday. The Panthers improve to 8-9-1 overall and the Chargers drop to 3-7.
Mulford mowed down opposing hitters in eight innings of work for his second win of the season. The rookie allowed just three hits and struck out five in the economical 97-pitch effort. Mulford received flawless defense behind him as well as a pair of crooked-number innings that saw the Panthers pound out nine hits.
Brandon Stahl continued his torrid hitting streak with a 2-4 afternoon that featured a double and two RBI, while
Vincent Sharkey also had two hits, a double and a run batted in.
Kevin Hutzel batted 2-4 with a pair of runs scored, and
Donato Signore and
Anthony Vazzana each pushed runs across with sacrifice flies.
For the Chargers, Leonardo Bravo tripled and drew a walk to stand as one of just four Dominican runners to reach scoring position. Starting pitcher Ryan Calby was nearly untouchable in the early going and threw just 36 pitches to cruise through four frames but ran into trouble in the fifth.
Vinny Gaetano disrupted Calby's perfect game with a leadoff walk and Hutzel broke the no-hitter with a base hit up the middle that sent Gaetano to third.
Nick Zito then flicked an RBI single to left to spoil the shutout and ultimately saddle Calby with the loss. Sharkey kept the inning alive with a two-out infield single and Stahl brought in two more with a double down the right field line that pushed Adelphi ahead 3-0.
Adelphi assembled another big inning in the seventh and cranked out four runs on four hits. Hutzel scorched a single through the left side, stole second and looked on as Zito drew a walk. That spelled the end of Calby's day and the Chargers signaled for Caleb Whiteley from the bullpen.
John Campbell greeted the new arm with an RBI liner to left and Vazzana tagged Whiteley with a sac fly to right that scored Zito. Stahl then knocked his second hit of the day to put runners on the corners and Signore lofted the second sac fly of the inning to stretch the Panther lead to 7-0.
Mulford chalked up a 1-2-3 stanza in the eighth and set the stage for reliever
John Donnelly in the ninth. The junior righty chucked a scoreless inning to close the door on the Chargers and seal Adelphi's sixth non-conference win of the season.
The Panthers return to action tomorrow when they open Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division play at home against So. Connecticut at 3:30 p.m.
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