Garden City, N.Y. - A pair of rain delays wasn't enough to stop the Adelphi University baseball team from completing a sweep of NE10 rival American International College in a doubleheader at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field on Saturday.

The Panthers (11-4, 3-0 NE10) first shut out the Yellow Jackets, behind a complete game from Nicolas Luc, and followed that up with a 10-3 victory.

Game 1: Adelphi 4, AIC 0
Despite a pre-game rain delay, the opener of the doubleheader still got underway shortly after the scheduled noon start time.

A leadoff single by Tim Feliz set the tone for the game's opening run in the bottom of the second.

As Alex Rende stepped to the plate, AIC starter Mason St. Pierre checked on Feliz with a throw to first, but was called for a balk.

With Feliz now in scoring position, Rende slashed an RBI double to left that gave Adelphi the 1-0 lead. It was his fourth RBI in his last two games, following a three-run homer in the series opener on Friday.

Rende, after the Panthers added an insurance run in the fifth, kept his hot play going in the sixth. The sophomore designated hitter again went the opposite field, driving an RBI triple down the left-field line.

In the sixth inning alone, the first five batters for Adelphi collected hits and Cooper Johnson followed Rende's triple with an RBI single.

Luc took the hill and threw a complete-game three-hit shutout. He walked only one and struck out seven across the full seven frames.

Game 2: Adelphi 10, AIC 3
The skies opened up again early on in Game 2, leading to another rain delay that halted the game in the bottom of the second.

Once the game resumed, the Panthers sent 11 batters to the plate in the second inning and scored eight runs on only five hits. Anthony Cipri and Matt Alifano both delivered two-RBI hits, while Jack Ryan lifted a three-run homer out to left for his first roundtripper of the season.

A wild pitch that scored Cooper Johnson in the third further added to the comfortable Adelphi cushion at 9-0.

Two innings later, Jose Matos drilled the scoreboard in left for a second time this season with a solo blast to left.

Jacob Dannenberg, who earned the win in the decision, came on to relieve junior starter Michael Storms after the rain delay. His only blemish was a solo homer allowed in the fifth. Otherwise, he let up only three hits in three innings of work.

The series between the Panthers and Yellow Jackets concludes with a single game Sunday (Mar. 27) at noon at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field in Garden City.