Garden City, N.Y. - It was a milestone afternoon on William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Sunday afternoon.

In its first doubleheader of the 2019 season, the Adelphi University baseball team swept visiting Merrimack College, 8-1 and 9-0, with the two wins bumping head coach Dom Scala's career total to 400 in 16 seasons at the helm.

Both contests were led by strong pitching on the bump from Ed Baram and Nicolas Luc, in addition to solid offense from the Panther lineup.

Baram clinched his third win of the season on the mound, improving the senior to 3-0 on the year in game one. He pitched a total of 7.2 innings, allowed one run on four hits, and fanned eight batters along the way. In game two, Luc earned his second win of the season after 7.2 innings on the mound and allowed just one hit with one walk and three strikeouts, 

In the opener, Brett Malm went 3-for-5 and tallied one RBI for Adelphi (11-4, 3-0 NE10). Brandon Morse added two hits and one RBI in the opener, and added another hit in game two to extend his season-opening hitting streak to 15 games.

In the nightcap, Jonathan Iadevaia and Lucas Terwilliger played perfect games, went a combined 5-for-5 at the dish, combining for four RBIs, while Cicileo, Colombo and Tyler Becker all recorded two hits on four at bats in the shutout victory.

Both teams were silent in the first inning before the Panthers put three on the board in the second to start game one quickly. With the bases loaded, an error by Merrimack's pitcher allowed Terwilliger and Colombo to cross home plate, and Becker later came home from third on a wild pitch.

After three innings passed, a sacrifice fly to right field brought a walked Morse home to make the score 4-0 after five, and later the lead increased to five as another error by the Warriors brought Tim Feliz home.

The Warriors ended the chance of an opening Adelphi shutout in the eighth off a solo homer to left center by Joey Porricelli, but three more runs in the eighth, thanks in part to RBI singles from Morse and Malm gave Adelphi the final margin.

In game two, Morse started the Panthers off with a solo home run to right field to put one away for the hosts in a four-run first inning, as base hits from Cicileo and Colombo allowed a double off Becker's bat to drive in the Panthers' second run and a two-run single from Iadevaia tallied the third and fourth.

Sitting with a 4-0 lead in the sixth, Terwilliger's pinch hit to left field brought Iadevaia and Becker around the bags to add to more to the scoreboard.

Adelphi's final three runs came in the last three at bats of the contest, beginning with a walked in run with Jack Ryan at the plate. A sacrifice fly from Morse put eight on the board for the Panthers before an RBI double from Malm sealed the ninth run.

The Panthers will return to action on Tuesday for a non-conference matchup with Mercy College. The single game is scheduled to start at 3:30 p.m. on William J. Bonomo Field. 

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