Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team pushed across seven runs in the third inning to build an early lead and outlast Le Moyne College, 9-7, in Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division play at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Friday. The Panthers improve to 10-9-1 overall and 2-0 in the division, while the Dolphins move to 8-12 on the season and 1-1 in Southwest play.
Anthony Zarrella led a crew of Adelphi hitters that pounded 16 hits in the contest. The senior captain went 4-5 with a double and three RBI, and was one of four Panthers with at least three hits.
Nick Zito batted 3-5 with a triple and two RBI, and
Chad Houghton and
Kevin Hutzel each knocked three singles.
Winning pitcher
Chris Pabisch went five innings and allowed three runs on seven hits while striking out three batters to pick up his third victory of the season. Closer
Dillon McNamara nailed down his second save in as many games with his four-out, no-hit effort and K'd three to bring Adelphi's strikeout total to 10 on the day.
For Le Moyne, Matthew Ciraco had three hits, two RBI and scored twice, while Pat Wiese and Brian Stinson both had a pair of singles. Nate Reynolds ripped two hits and three RBI, including a two-run single to complete the Dolphin's four-run seventh inning showing. On the mound, starter Kevin Carroll suffered the loss over 2.2 innings as Adelphi hitters posted nine runs on 11 hits against him. John Mildner was reliable in relief and threw 5.1 shutout innings with four strikeouts to keep the Panthers in check as the Dolphins chipped away at the deficit.
The Panthers, playing as the away team after inadvertent weather in Syracuse forced the game to be moved to Adelphi, took an early lead with two runs in the top of the first inning.
John Campbell and Zarrella strung together one-out singles, Zarrella stole second and Campbell scored the game's first run on
Richard Mejia's RBI ground out. Zito followed with the third hit of the stanza to score Zarrella and put Adelphi up 2-0.
A seven-run effort in the third inning stretched Adelphi's lead to a comfortable 9-0. Zito blasted a one-out RBI triple to right field and scored on Houghton's base hit to make it 4-0, followed by an RBI single by
Kyle Ambury to give the Panthers five runs.
Vincent Sharkey snuck an RBI double down the left field line, Campbell walked to load the bases and Zarrella cleared the bags with a three-run double to blow the game open.
Mildner's relief efforts shut down the Adelphi offense and kept his team in the game as the Dolphins grabbed three runs in the fourth. Reynolds and Paul Speicher knocked back-to-back one-run singles and a one-out RBI ground out made it a 9-3 contest. Le Moyne forged another big inning in the seventh with four runs on five hits to suddenly make it a two-run game. Four straight singles and a walk spelled a 9-5 game with no outs and the bases loaded for the Dolphins, and Reynolds delivered a two-run base hit that pushed Le Moyne's rally to seven unanswered runs.
James McCormack came on for the eighth for Adelphi and recorded two outs before McNamara got the call and promptly struck out the final batter of the frame. Minus a leadoff walk in the ninth, McNamara was nearly untouchable and punched out two of four batters to finish the Dolphins.
The two teams return to action tomorrow for a doubleheader beginning at 12 p.m.
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