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Garden City, N.Y. – The Adelphi University baseball team split a Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division doubleheader with Le Moyne College, taking game one 2-1 and falling 7-6 in game two at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Saturday. After taking two of three games in the series, the Panthers improve to 11-10-1 overall and 3-1 in the Southwest Division, while the Dolphins stand at 9-13 on the season and 2-2 in division play.
Game One
Starting pitcher
Stephen Bove carried Adelphi to victory in the opener with 7.1 innings of one-run baseball. The junior captain scattered seven hits, walked none and struck out three in his second win of the season.
Dillon McNamara picked up his sixth save of the season which leaves him three shy of tying the Adelphi single season record of nine.
Kevin Hutzel was the lone Panthers with two hits in the contest and drove in what proved to be the winning run with an RBI single in the third inning.
Anthony Zarrella drove in Adelphi's other run on a base hit in the top of the first.
For Le Moyne, hurler Ryan Davis went the distance in the setback and allowed two runs on eight hits with eight strikeouts. Vincent Redmond went 2-4, Zack Wiley and Nate Reynolds both cracked doubles, and Kody O'Connor knocked in the Dolphins' only run with an eighth inning single.
The Panthers scored their first run before recording an out, beginning with a leadoff walk for
John Campbell and Hutzel's base hit to put runners on first and second. Zarrella then placed a single down the left field line to score Campbell and put Adelphi up 1-0. Campbell was the offensive catalyst again in the third and drove a leadoff double to left center. After a balk placed Campbell in scoring position, Hutzel singled to the left side to bring around a second run for the Panthers.
Bove kept the Dolphins at bay into the eighth, but Wiley's one-out two bagger got the Le Moyne bats rolling. O'Connor followed with a single to right center that put his team on the board, but McNamara relieved Bove and recorded the final five outs to seal the victory.
Game Two
Adelphi held the lead for eight innings in the nightcap but a four-run Le Moyne rally in the bottom of the ninth, capped by Pat Wright's game-winning single, gave the Dolphins a 7-6 walkoff win in the series finale.
For the Panthers,
Donato Signore went 3-4 with three RBI and
Vincent Sharkey cracked three hits including an RBI triple. Campbell doubled, scored a run, drove in a run and stole a base during a 2-4 day, and
Brandon Stahl also went 2-4 with a pair of runs scored and a swiped bag.
Jeff Andersen went 6.2 innings on the hill in the eventual no-decision and allowed three runs on five hits while picking up five strikeouts.
Vincent Caputo suffered the loss in relief after Wright drove in Caputo's inherited runner off of
James McCormack with one out in the ninth.
Pat Wiese batted 3-4 with a triple, two RBI and two runs in the win, while Reynolds went 2-4 and smashed a two-run home run in the ninth to make it a one-run game and spark the Le Moyne rally. Reliever Zach Place reeled in the win in 1.2 shutout innings and starter Frank O'Brien exited after three innings, surrendering three runs on four hits and a pair of free passes.
The Panthers got on the board in the first inning after another leadoff walk. Campbell's single set the stage for
Richard Mejia, whose single through the left side brought Stahl across. With two away, Campbell and Mejia executed a double-steal and both scored on Signore's base hit to left center to make it 3-0 after half a frame.
Andersen breezed through six outs but the Dolphins tagged the Adelphi starter for a run on two hits in the third. Adelphi got that run back in the fifth after Zarrella laced a leadoff hit, moved to third on back-to-back ground outs and scored on another hit by Signore.
The Panther lead swelled to 5-1 in the seventh when Campbell doubled home Stahl, but Le Moyne picked up a pair of runs in the bottom half. Brian Stinson drove an RBI double to left center to end Andersen's outing, and Wiese made it a 5-3 contest with an RBI single. Sharkey tripled for a two-out RBI in the eighth that gave Adelphi a 6-3 lead heading to the bottom of the ninth, but a four-run outburst sent the Dolphins home with a win. With one on and one away, Reynolds cracked a two-run bomb to ignite the Le Moyne rally. Stinson followed with a single and pinch runner Brett Charbonneau stole second. Wiese then plated a run with a triple to center to tie the game. The Panthers called to McCormack to extinguish the Le Moyne attack, but Wright closed the book on Adelphi with the game-winning single through the right side.
The Panthers complete their 11-game home stand on Tuesday when they host Pace University in an NE-10 Southwest Division contest at 3:30 p.m.
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