Lantana, Fla. - Following a disheartening loss to New Haven earlier in the day, the Adelphi University baseball team bounced back Wednesday night with an 18-7 victory over Alliance University at the Santaluces Sports Complex.
While Adelphi's first game of the day was called in the seventh due to rain, the umpires ordered the later game to stop once the Panthers (8-7) built a 10-run lead.
A few Panthers even collected their first career RBIs, highlighted by a pair of RBI efforts from senior catcher
Henry Friedrich.
Tied 1-1 through two innings of play, Adelphi rattled off seventeen unanswered runs between the third and fifth innings.
A run came across for the Brown and Gold in six consecutive at-bats in the top of the third, capped by RBI hits off the bats of
Phillip D'Aguanno and
Joe Pellegrino.
After Adelphi tacked on another pair in the fourth, Head Coach
Bill Ianniciello's squad poured it on with eight more in the fifth.
It was the tandem yet again of D'Aguanno and Pellegrino that put the exclamation point on the win. Both with two outs, D'Aguanno drove a two-RBI single to center, and Pellegrino followed with a two-RBI double.
Junior pitcher
Carlos Acosta started on the hill and threw five innings of six-strikeout ball.
Ryan De La Rosa,
John Carver and
Cullen SantaMaria all saw action out of the bullpen.
The Panthers have two more games in Florida before returning home, starting tomorrow (Mar. 16) back in Lantana with a re-match against Post University at 1 p.m.
