Garden City, NY - The visiting Pace Setters scored 11 runs in the first two innings on the way to an 11-1 Northeast-10 Conference win earlier today against the Adelphi University baseball team.

Tyler Murphy led the Panthers (4-7/2-1 NE-10) with a 2-for-4 day while five other contributed a hit, including Nick Zito who knocked in the lone run of the day. The Adelphi bullpen of Nikolas Batas, John Bivas, Ricky Van Allen, and Mike Cranston combined to pitch 5.0 innings of shutout baseball that included just one hit allowed and five strikeouts.

Pace (6-9/1-2 NE-10) had two individuals in Andrew Coffey and John Kukura each go 3-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored. Tyler Bivona added two RBI and a run. On the mound, Josh Garran earned the victory by throwing 5.0 scoreless innings with four strikeouts. 

Coffey scored the first run for the Setters in the top of the first inning on a double after leading off the game with a single and a stolen base. After the vistors added another run on a dropped fly ball, Kukura drove in two with a triple to left field. Kukura scored on the next at-bat on a groundout to make it 5-0 after one half inning. 

Again leading off the second inning, Coffey tripled to left center and scored two batters later. The Setters added two more on bases loaded walks followed by a single. Coffey came up again in the inning to drive in the final two runs with a double to left field.

Murphy posted the first of seven hits in the game for the Brown and Gold with a single in the fourth. The Panthers got on the board in the seventh after a Zito single that scored Donato Signore, who led off the inning with a double. Eric Hassell singled in the eighth, however, Adelphi went in order in the ninth with Michael Forgione closing out the final two innings for Pace.

The Panthers are on the road this weekend with a three-game series at New Haven. The first two will be a doubleheader on Saturday in West Haven, CT, starting at 12:00 pm.