Pleasantville, N.Y. – The Adelphi baseball team traveled up to Pace on Wednesday afternoon for a midweek conference tilt. The Panthers led through seven and a half innings, but a late surge from the Setters gave them an 8-4 win.

Series History:

• Adelphi (15-12, 11-7 NE10) is now 33-22 against Pace since March 2005. The last meeting between the foes was a 7-2 Setter victory in Garden City on March 31.

Highlights:

• Zach DeMilt and Johnny Catuosco combined to go 5-for-9 at the top of the lineup, with DeMilt driving in two runs and scoring one.
• Bryan McCleary, Michael Robinson and Anthony Rigogliosi all recorded multi-hit games.
• Robinson hit his sixth home run of the season in the top of the ninth.
• Billy Kind earned the start, pitching four scoreless innings.

How It Happened:

• After a scoreless first inning, the Panthers opened the scoring in the top of the second. An Evan Carway walk and a Rigogliosi bunt single set up DeMilt, who drove in the Panther first baseman with a single to left-center field.
• With Kind and Joe O'Toole in a pitcher's duel, the next run was not scored until the top of the fifth.
• A walk from DeMilt chased O'Toole, and after a Catuosco single moved the freshman to third, McCleary came through with an RBI single to extend the Panther lead to two.
• Adelphi got on the board again in the sixth after some small ball. A Pace error led to a sacrifice bunt and another DeMilt RBI single to put the Panthers up 3-0.
• The Brown and Gold bullpen was clean through six, but the seventh inning was when it ran into trouble.
• Pace struck for two runs to cut the lead to one, then exploded for six runs in the bottom of the eighth to take a commanding 8-3 lead.
• Robinson homered in the top of the ninth, but Adelphi could not sustain any offense as it fell, 8-4.

Up Next:

• Head coach Mike Gaffney and the Panthers will look to bounce back when they kick off a four-game set with Southern Connecticut State on Saturday. First pitch for game one of the doubleheader is set for 12 p.m.