Boca Raton, Fla. - Trailing 5-4, a five-run fifth inning helped push the Adelphi University baseball team to an eventual 16-5 defeat over Lynn University on Tuesday evening.

The Panthers (4-2) scored 12 runs combined in the fifth, sixth and seventh innings to score a non-league win, powered in part by the bat of Thomas Colombo.

Adelphi saw all eight batters posting at least one hit, and six recording an RBI. Colombo gave Adelphi its needed edge with two home runs, moving to three on the season, and five RBIs overall. Brandon Morse continued his hitting streak, adding four more on six at-bats with a run scored. Jonathan Iadevaia and Brandon Warick drove in three runners each, while Michael Cattani, Brett Malm and Jordan Milo contributed one RBI.

The Fighting Knights (14-9) got on the board early with an RBI single to the shortstop to put one on for the home team. One batter later, a single through the right side brought home a man from third, giving Lynn a 2-0 edge over the Panthers after one. However, a base hit by Morse in the leadoff spot put the outfielder in position to score on Colombo's first homer of the season to left field in the second, knotting the early action at 2-2.

Lynn answered in the third with a solo home run to lead off, followed by an RBI single to add another two runs, but the Brown and Gold tied the score for the second time beginning with an RBI single credited to Iadevaia. In the next at bat, Warick's single up the middle drove Cattani home from third and evened the score 4-4 after the top of the fourth.

After letting up one run in the fourth, the visitors a four-run cushion over Lynn that they never relinquished thanks to the five-run frame. The 5-0 run began with Cicileo and Malm getting on base, and eventually crossed home plate off of an RBI single by Cattani. Two batters later, Iadevaia roped a single up the middle, bringing home Cicileo and Colombo. Warick then drove in Cattani from third to secure Adelphi's final run of the inning.

The Panthers added three more to the board in the sixth, leading off with Colombo's second home run of the day, followed by an RBI double from Milo that brought Cattani home, before the senior later added another run off a wild pitch. Adelphi scored its final three runs of the contest in the seventh, as Malm's RBI double brought in Morse to make it 14-5. He he later scored off Colombo's double down the right field line, who then scored off a wild pitch.

Nicholas Maricich, Seth Sypniak, and Nick Palmerini finished on the mound for Adelphi, holding the Fighting Knights scoreless for the remainder of the contest, with Marcich posting his first win of the season.

The Brown and Gold will return to Lynn tomorrow for a contest against Post University at 3 p.m. 

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