Box Score
Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi University baseball team's bats came alive in a 15-1 win over regionally-ranked Pace in Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division action at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Tuesday. The Panthers improve to 21-22-1 overall and 10-8 in division play after their final regular season home game of 2013, while the Setters, ranked fifth in the latest National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association East Region poll, slip to 28-14 overall and 12-6 in the Southwest.
Donato Signore blasted a pair of home runs to lead Adelphi's offensive showcase, finishing the day 3-5 with five RBI.
Anthony Zarrella went 3-4 with a double, three RBI and two runs, while
Richard Mejia went 2-2 with a triple, three walks and drove in two runs to tie Zarrella for the team lead with 34 RBI.
Brandon Stahl hit 2-5 with his team-best 12th double of the season, while
Ray Triano poked a pair of singles.
Chris Pabisch threw seven innings of six-hit baseball and did not allow an earned run to improve to 6-3 on the year.
Jeff Andersen and
Dillon McNamara each hurled a perfect inning of relief and both struck out two batters.
For Pace, Brandon Martineson went 2-4 with a double and Robert Horn ripped a pair of base hits. Jonathan Chudy suffered the loss on the mound after allowing six runs on seven hits in two innings.
The Panthers struck in the first inning for the second time in as many games, putting up a four-spot to take control from the early going.
Kevin Hutzel drew a one-out walk and Mejia singled to put runners on first and third. Zarrella sliced a single through the left side for an RBI, and a double steal brought Mejia home to make it 2-0. Signore promptly doubled the lead with a two-run bomb to left center that spelled a 4-0 advantage for the hosts.
Adelphi grabbed two more runs in the second as
John Campbell laced a leadoff single and Stahl doubled down the left field line. With one away, Mejia hit a sharp liner to the right fielder that allowed Campbell to score on the sacrifice fly, and Zarrella followed with a two-bagger on a rocket off the right center field fence to bring in Stahl and give the Panthers a 6-0 lead.
Signore delivered again in the fourth and made back-to-back walks hurt when he skied a three-run homer to straight away left. With a comfortable 9-0 lead, Pabisch faced the minimum in the fifth and worked around a double, walk and fielding error in the sixth to escape without an earned run. The Setters cracked the scoreboard on an Adelphi defensive miscue, but the hitters picked up the slack in the bottom of the sixth as a bases-loaded double play allowed one run to score and
Nick Zito drove in Mejia with a base hit to make it 11-1.
Pabisch tossed a 1-2-3 seventh to finish his day, and a wild pitch and Zarrella fielder's choice brought home two more for Adelphi in the home half. Andersen took over on the mound and tossed a perfect eighth, and the Panthers added a pair of insurance runs with a RBI groundout by
Anthony Vazzana and a one-run triple by Mejia. McNamara sealed the deal with a pair of strikeouts to retire the Setters in order in the ninth.
The Panthers return to action on Thursday when they travel to take on Dominican College in non-league action at 7 p.m.
