Garden City, N.Y. – The Adelphi baseball team hosted regional rival Queens College on Wednesday afternoon for its home opener at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field. Leading for most of the game, the Panthers were not able to put away the Knights as Queens defeated them, 9-8.

Series History:

• Adelphi (3-5, 0-0 NE10) now moves to 28-12 against Queens since March 2002 and is on a four-game losing streak to the Knights dating back to last season. The last matchup between the pair was a shortened 8-2 Queens victory back on February 21 in Myrtle Beach.

Highlights:

• Billy Kind earned his first start of the year and pitched well. Through three innings, the junior allowed no runs and no hits and only three baserunners.
• Johnny Catuosco was an offensive catalyst once again, driving in two runs. Bryan McCleary and Erick Duignan had two RBI as well.
• Having never stolen a base in his collegiate career, McCleary swiped three bags in the contest.
• As a team, the Panthers drew 10 walks.

How It Happened:

• Kind shut down the Knights during his three innings of work, and during that time Adelphi took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the second after a Duignan single.
• Tyler Bonsignore entered the game in the top of the fourth and was given great run support.
• Queens scored in the top of the fifth, but the Panthers put four runs on the board courtesy of another Duignan single, a pair of RBI walks from Michael Robinson and McCleary and a Matt Ryan sacrifice fly.
• The final four innings saw 11 combined runs from the ballclubs, but unfortunately for Adelphi, most of those runs came from Queens.
• The Knights were able to get to Bonsignore in the sixth, scoring three, but the Brown and Gold came right back with two runs of its own.
• In the seventh, it seemed as though Queens tied the game with a two-run home run, but in a controversial call, the umpire declared that Christian Aguilar never touched home plate, causing the third out of the inning and preserving a 7-6 Adelphi lead.
• Catuosco padded the lead in the bottom half of the inning, but the Knights capitalized on shaky pitching from the Panthers. Queens went on to score three in the top of the eighth before silencing the Adelphi bats in the eighth and ninth.
• L.J. Bohne tried to spark a two-out rally with the game on the line after a hustle double, but Catuosco hit a screamer right at the shortstop to end the game.