Garden City, N.Y. - For the first time since 2014, the Adelphi University baseball team will appear in the NE10 Championship final, following a 13-2 win over Le Moyne College in the decisive game of the 2021 NE10 Southwest Division final on Monday at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field in Garden City.

The top-seeded Panthers (19-13), who have now won 10 of their last 11, will meet the No. 1 seed from the Northeast Division -- Southern New Hampshire University -- in a best-of-three series, starting Friday (May 21) in Manchester, N.H.

In a winner-take-all contest, Nicolas Luc made the start on short rest and picked up from where he left off on Thursday. He impressively let up only one earned run and struck out six in 5.2 innings of work.

Meanwhile, Matt Alifano couldn't have gotten Adelphi out to a better start. He led off the game with a solo shot to center and the hosts never looked back. The Panthers had the contest's first lead for the first time since it was 1-0 in Game 1 of the series.

In the second, Cooper Johnson flied one to right that got lost in the sun and dropped in for a two-base hit. Anthony Cipri then came through with a two-out opposite-field RBI single that doubled the Adelphi lead.

The situational two-out hitting didn't stop there. An inning later, Johnson and Kyle Olson -- each with a runner in scoring position -- both laced RBI singles with two away in the frame, making it a 4-0 game.

Adelphi tallied a run in seven of its eight turns at the plate in the contest.

In the fourth, the sun victimized the Dolphins again. This time, a fly ball to left by Cipri dunked in for a double. After Alifano reached on an error to put runners on the corners, Tim Feliz lined an RBI single to center.

Le Moyne climbed back into it and plated a run in the fifth and sixth innings, which cut the deficit to 5-2.

In the visitors' half of the sixth, the Dolphins brought the tying run to the plate, but Jack Ryan gunned down a steal attempt at second base to end the inning.

That created a big shift in momentum.

While Le Moyne would be held off the scoreboard for the remainder of the game, Ryan poked an RBI single out to right in the sixth and Feliz created more separation in the seventh with a RBI single of his own.

The floodgates opened in the eighth. Adelphi batted around and pushed across five runs against three different Le Moyne relievers that all but sealed it.

Kevin Glasser officially punched Adelphi's ticket to the NE10 Championship by coming in to provide 3.1 innings of scoreless relief with two strikeouts. It was his second save in as many chances.

Since spectators won't be allowed at Penmen Field this weekend, the game can be viewed on NE10NOW.tv or you can follow along via Live Stats. All links are available on the schedule page.