Pleasantville, N.Y. - TJ Santiago tied the Adelphi University baseball team's career record for strikeouts on Tuesday, as the senior fanned nine in a two-hit shutout to defeat Pace, 7-0, and lead Adelphi a crucial Northeast-10 Conference Southwest Division victory.

Santiago, who tied Robert Nixon's ('11) career mark of 242 punch outs, hurled his third complete game of the season, with all three being shutouts to improve to 8-2 overall. With the victory, Adelphi (23-21, 12-9 NE10, 7-8 SW) moves into a tie with Pace for the final playoff spot in the Southwest Division with a week remaining in the regular season, as the Panthers sweep the season series from the Setters.

Michael Stack's two-run double in the fourth inning gave the Panthers a lead they would never relinquish, but they broke the game open with a five-run frame in the seventh. Brett Malm launched a two-run homer to cap Adelphi's scoring in the inning, his third in as many days, as part of a 3-5 day with a pair driven in and two runs scored. Steven Withers also went 3-5 at the top of the Adelphi lineup, extending his season-best hitting streak to 21 games, while Robert Vani and Stack each recorded a pair of hits to account for the bulk of Adelphi's 15 on the afternoon.

Also plating a pair on the afternoon was Jonathan Iadevaia, whose lone hit in the contest was a two-run triple ahead of Malm's homer in the seventh. 

That offense was more than enough for Santiago, who allowed just two singles to Michael Gulino in the second and pinch-hitter Brian Bohlander in the ninth, before the latter was erased on a double play to end the game.

The Panthers play their last regular-season home game tomorrow, May 3, with a 3:30 non-conference tilt against Nyack College, before traveling to Le Moyne this weekend to close out the regular season.

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Adelphi University joined the Northeast-10 Conference in the fall of 2009 and in the past eight seasons, has collected 23 regular season conference titles, 25 tournament championships, 33 individual crowns and captured the Northeast-10 Presidents' Cup three times (2013, 2014, and 2016), while winning five NCAA Division II National Championships.

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