Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team cracked 10 hits, including five for extra bases, to earn a 10-3 win over The College of Saint Rose in Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division action at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Sunday. The Panthers improve to 20-22-1 overall and 9-8 in division play while reaching the 20-win mark for the ninth consecutive season. The Golden Knights drop to 10-35 overall and 6-11in the Southwest with the loss.
Anthony Zarrella batted 2-4 with a double, triple and two RBI to reach the 100 career RBI mark in his third season with the Panthers.
Richard Mejia went 2-4 with a two-run home run and four RBI, while
Brandon Stahl had a game-high four hits including a triple, two runs and two RBI.
Nick Zito finished 3-4 with a double and drove in a pair, and
Vincent Sharkey ripped two singles and scored twice.
Stephen Bove picked up the win on the mound in five innings, allowing just three hits and no earned runs while striking out two. After giving up back-to-back singles to start the game, Bove retired the next 13 batters he faced to help him improve to 3-2 on the year.
Jonathon Mulford threw three innings of relief, while
Matt Abramowitz pitched a shutout ninth and struck out three hitters.
For Saint Rose, Joseph Carcone went 3-5 with an RBI double out of the leadoff spot, and Caleb Gleason batted 2-4 with a walk and run scored. Josh Johnson was tagged with the loss on the hill after Adelphi hitters worked him for eight runs on 10 hits in four innings.
Adelphi got to work immediately in the bottom of the first, as Stahl ripped an opposite field single and Mejia circled the bases with a two-run blast to left center. Stahl tacked on another run in the second by legging out an RBI triple to right center to make it 3-0 after two frames.
Bove continued to cruise through the Golden Knights lineup and got more than enough run support as the Panthers attacked for five runs on five hits in the home half of the fourth. Sharkey turned the lineup over with a two-out single back up the box and Stahl moved him to second with a base hit.
Kevin Hutzel loaded the bases after being plunked by a pitch, and Zarrella promptly crushed a two-run double to center, picking up career RBI numbers 99 and 100 to make it a 5-0 game. Mejia kept it going with an RBI single to right and Zito doubled home two more to blow open an 8-0 lead for Adelphi.
Bove worked into the sixth but
Jonathon Mulford got the call from the bullpen after a leadoff single pushed Bove over the 70-pitch mark. A fielder's choice and two singles loaded the bases and an error on the infield brought in an unearned run to put Saint Rose on the board. Chad Adams lifted a sacrifice fly to right to plate another run, but Mulford got a groundout to second base to escape the inning with an 8-2 lead.
Zarrella missed a solo home run by mere inches with a double off the top of the right center wall to lead off the sixth, and Mejia brought him home with a sac fly to shallow right that was just enough to allow Zarrella to slide in ahead of the catcher's tag.
Saint Rose picked up another two-out RBI in the seventh as Carcone plated Lukas Nethaway with a double just inside the left field foul line, but Stahl drove in another run with his fourth hit of the day to make it 10-3 after seven full frames. Both squads went quietly in the eighth, and Abramowitz came on in the ninth looking to shut the door on the third game of the weekend series. The junior reliever needed just six pitches to ring up two K's to start the inning, and worked around a single and walk to strike out the final batter.
The Panthers return to action on Tuesday when they host Pace University in their final regular season home game of the season. The NE-10 Southwest Division contest is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.
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