Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team posted its second straight shutout victory when the Panthers blanked regionally-ranked Southern Connecticut State University 1-0 in the Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division opener at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Wednesday. Adelphi improves to 9-9-1 overall and 1-0 in the division, while the Owls, ranked third in this week's National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association East Region poll, drop to 12-6 overall and 1-2 in division play.
Solid pitching carried Adelphi to victory for the second day in a row as the Panthers extended their shutout streak to 24 innings. Starter
Jimmy Milani threw well enough to win in 5.1 innings of work, but a scoreless tie upon his exit delt the win to reliever
Chris Pabisch, who tossed 1.2 innings of one-hit baseball. Head Coach
Dom Scala exercised caution with Milani in his first extended appearance of the spring and adheared to a strict pitch count limit despite a two-hit shutout effort by his starter. Closer
Dillon McNamara picked up his fourth save of the year and retired all five batters he faced with just 14 pitches.
Brandon Stahl delivered the deciding blow in the seventh when his RBI groundout plated pinch runner
Matthew Wasserman to put the Panthers up 1-0.
Richard Mejia assembled a perfect 3-3 day at the plate with a walk and
Anthony Zarrella smacked two singles in a game that featured no extra-base hits from either squad.
The Owls were held to just three hits by Adelphi pitching. Collin Dickinson was the lone So. Connecticut player to earn his way aboard multiple times as he reached base on a single, walk and hit-by-pitch. Ryan Yerina went 5-plus strong innings on the hill without allowing a run, but was also pulled early after Zarrella and Mejia notched back-to-back one out hits in the sixth. Will Meade came on in relief and ended the threat, but his inherited runner eventually plated the go-ahead run in the seventh to brand Meade with the loss.
Kevin Hutzel sparked the offense in the bottom of the seventh with a leadoff single to left and Wasserman entered as a pinch runner. Wasserman moved up on a groundout and scampered to third on
Vincent Sharkey's bunt single. Stahl then rolled a grounder to the right side and allowed Wasserman to cross home plate for what proved to be the winning run.
The Panthers return to NE-10 Southwest action on Friday with the first of a three-game set against Le Moyne College beginning at 3:30 p.m.
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