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Adelphi Pulls Off the Upset over Pace
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics Adelphi knocked off No. 1 ranked Pace, 6-2, to move past the single-elimination round and officially entered the Northeast-10 tournament this weekend.The offense came to play today against Pace’s ace, Josh Garran, who entered the game with a 2.08 ERA but was tagged with five ER in 4.1 innings. The big blow was Tyler Murphy‘s two-run double in the fifth inning, which scored Nick Zito and Kory Cassara, to open up a 5-1 lead.Donato Signore, Cassara, Zito and Ray Triano all smacked two hits while Murphy and Triano drove in two runs. They also drew six walks.T.J Santiago got the nod for the Panthers and he won his first game of the season–he allowed one ER on three hits and four walks while striking out four in 4.2 innings. Mike Ceparano, Nick B...
Mulford Improves to 5-0
Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics The Adelphi Panthers rode the right arm of their ace, Jonathon Mulford, and 10 hits to record a big 3-0 victory over Pace.The Panthers got on the board in the second inning on a two-run double by Donato Signore, which scored Vincent Sharkey and Rich Cambria. Signore now has 11 RBI on the season.In the following inning, Nick Zito hit an RBI single to score Signore and increase the score to 3-0.In the meantime, Mulford weas mowing down the Knights. He allowed only two hits, while walking one and striking out five in five shutout innings. He needed only 69 pitches. His ERA dropped to 2.34. He was relieved by Nick Batas, who threw three shutout innings. He has been very effective this season, his ERA is now 3.22 and opponents are hitting a measly .192. Closer Mi...
Panthers Edge Kutztown
Written by Michael Parchinsky The sun was shining on William J Bonomo field on Wednesday when the Adelphi Panthers won their second straight game–this time a 3-2 pitcher’s duel against Kutztown University Bears. The Panthers used six pitchers to navigate through the game–with Kyle Garrison earning the win with two shutout innings of relief. He was backed by an offense that jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the fifth but was dormant after that. They produced only three hits, with Donato Signore accounting for two of those. The Bears stepped to the plate first. The first two batters, Brady Carras, and Brady McNab, were set down in order. Their third hitter, Ryan Cox got on base via a single to right/center field. He was quickly sent to the bench when Adelphi’s catcher, Camden Oro...
Zykoff’s Single Wins it for the Panthers
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The Adelphi Panthers halted their three-game skid with a 10-inning victory over a strong Southern Connecticut team on Tuesday by the score of 5-4. Alex Zykoff, who came in as a pinch-runner drove in Nick Zito with an infield single to shortstop–which proved to be the game-winning run for the Panthers. After seven innings, the Panthers actually led 4-0 in this game. Starter John Thompson was terrific–throwing six shutout innings, striking out six while walking four and allowing five hits. The offense gave him some runs to work with. After the first run came in on an error, Nick Zito smacked a two-run double in the third to score Rob Vani and Kory Cassara.The Owls did all their damage in the eighth inning. Nick Batas allowed singles to the first two ...
Adelphi Sweeps LeMoyne
Photo Credit: Michael Parchinsky By winning both ends of the DH today against LeMoyne, the Adelphi Panthers have swept the series from LeMoyne and have gotten back on track. They won the first game 4-1 behind Jonathon Mulford‘s stellar outing–seven innings, zero ER, eight hits, one walk and two strikeouts to improve his record to 3-0. The Dolphins took an early 1-0 lead on an RBI double, but it was an unearned run due to an error earlier in the inning by Mike Stack. That was all the Dolphins would muster, as Mulford kept them at bay all day. Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics John Fogarty hit a two-run homer in the second inning to give the Panthers the lead. They padded that lead with two more homers–a solo shot by Stack in the fifth inning and a solo bomb by Donato Signor...
Tyler Murphy’s Two-Run Double Gets Adelphi Back on Track
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana Down 3-0 in the seventh inning to NE-10 rival Southern Connecticut State and staring at a fifth consecutive loss, the Adelphi Panthers mounted a four-run comeback capped by a two-run eighth inning double by Tyler Murphy to turn disaster into triumph.Eric Hassell and Kory Cassara began the eighth-inning rally with consecutive singles to set the stage for a sac bunt. Ray Triano got it down, and the third baseman threw it away which allowed Hassell to score the Panther’s second run.Murphy came up as a pinch-hitter and he promptly ripped a double to right-center field to give the Panthers the lead. Senior Mike Cranston came on and immediately was faced with thwarting a rally. He allowed a lead off single and the next batter bunted him into scoring position. Th...
Long Island Native Jack Zagaja Wins It Against Adelphi
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana The New Haven Chargers came back from a 2-0 deficit against Adelphi and won it on a walk-off single by St. Dominic’s graduate Jack Zagaja.“I had a long at bat,” said Zagaja. “I fouled off curveballs and fastballs. Saw a changeup, smacked it up the middle,” he added.The victory, plus the second game of the double header put Adelphi further in a hole. They now stand at 4-9 on the season.The Panthers got off to a 2-0 lead in the second inning on a single by Alex Zykoff which scored Donato Signore and Robert Vani.Starter Jonathon Mulford was solid as usual–six innings, two ER, two BB, four K’s. He gave way to Nick Batas after allowing a leadoff double in the seventh inning. Batas got an out in the seventh inning. Ricky Van A...
Pace Uses Two Huge Innings to Down Adelphi 11-1
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHko9YOIjxs]The good news is the Adelphi pitching staff held Pace scoreless in the final seven innings. The bad news is they allowed 11 in the first two innings for the team’s second consecutive blowout loss.Pace put up five in the first against Panther’s starter Kyle Garrison and six in the second off a combination of him and Michael Ceparano. They got outplayed in all three facets of the game, with the offense putting up one run on seven hits while the defense committed three costly errors–a huge one on a pop fly in the first inning by Tyler Murphy and another one a botched ground ball by Mike Stack. Pace batted around in the first two innings and Cf Andrew Coffey had three hits, scored two runs and drove in two. John Kukura also ...
Adelphi Opens Up 2015 With Victory Over Nova
Photo Credit: Vinny Messana ‘Sorry 4 The Wait’ may have loosely been based on the 2015 baseball season. It only took halfway through March–and they had to travel to Fort Lauderdale, Fla to do so–but Adelphi finally was able to play their first game of the year. It was a surprising 8-3 victory over Nova Southeastern. It was surprising in the sense that northeast teams generally do no come out as sharp as the Panthers did against a 17-3 team that was in their home state. Of course, when you have a draft prospect like Jonathon Mulford, that makes the task more feasible. The Massapequa native fired five shutout innings, allowing only three hits, one walk while striking out five. The offense came out blazing, they compiled 15 hits–led by Vincent Sharkey‘s 4-f...
