Syracuse, N.Y. - Needing a win to keep its Northeast-10 Conference playoff hopes alive, the Adelphi University baseball team fell in a 1-0 pitchers' duel at the hands of the Le Moyne College Dolphins on Sunday afternoon.

The Panthers (24-24, 12-12 NE10) were swept at the hands of Le Moyne (28-15, 15-7 NE10), and needed a win in Sunday's contest and some help from the Southern Connecticut State University Owls against the Pace University Setters to earn a bid to the NE10 Championships after Pace's victory over the Owls yesterday. However, the Setters' 8-5 victory over the Owls in game one of Sunday's double-header sees them punch their ticket to the conference tournament.

Matthew O'Connor was the hard-luck loser for Adelphi, as the senior hurled eight innings of one-run baseball with four strikeouts, but was out-done on the hill by Sam Walsh, who pitched a complete game two-hitter and fanned 10 Panthers. Adelphi's lone hits in the contest were a leadoff single in the second inning by Brett Malm, and a pinch-hit leadoff single by Michael Cattani in the eighth.

After five shutout innings by both sides, Le Moyne scratched out a run in the sixth after Donato DiNorcia was hit by a pitch to lead off, was sacrificed to second and came around to score on Ben Walsh's RBI single. Walsh went 3-4 against O'Connor in the game, accounting for the majority of Le Moyne's five hits.

The Panthers' best chance to score came in that eighth inning, as they eventually loaded the bases with two down thanks to Cattani's single, an error that allowed Steven Withers to reach and Robert Vani taking first on a hit by pitch. However, Walsh won the battle against Malm, who flied out to center field, to end the threat and Adelphi's playoff hopes. 

Malm ends the 2017 season as Adelphi's leading primary starter in batting average, having hit .330 on the year with 11 doubles, five home runs and 32 RBIs. Withers, who saw a 22-game hitting streak stopped in the season's final series, was right behind him at .321 with 24 RBIs and 20 stolen bases.

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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, 27 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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