Photo Credit: Adelphi Athletics CW Post beat Dowling 5-3, with Tyler Badamo suffering the loss in relief. The Golden Lions drop to 24-10 on the season, while the Pioneers improve to 14-12.\u00a0 Dowling led 3-2 in the top of the eighth. JJ Bessell exited after 7.1 innings, allowing three runs (one earned). Badamo came in relief \u00a0and allowed an RBI single by Anthony Brunetti. In the ninth, Tom Tolan drove in two runs with a single to give the Pioneers a 5-3 lead. Brian Tinney fired two shutout innings in relief for the victory. He came in relief of Jake DeCarli who went the first seven innings and allowed three runs. The teams combined for only 12 hits; the pitchers kept them uncomfortable all day. Tolan and Brunetti for the only players with multi-hit games. The runs charged to Badamo were unearned, so technically his streak has now hit 61.2 without an earned run. The Golden Lions will play Concordia tomorrow while the Pioneers will play Dominican. Adelphi beat Concordia 9-4 in a non-conference game. The Panthers improve to 18-16 on the season. They trailed 4-1 in the fourth inning but scored eight unanswered runs after that, beginning with Tyler Decker’s HR. The Panthers smacked 17 hits; three by Rich Mejia and two each from Cliff Brantley, Brandon Stahl, Nick Zito (two RBI), Kevin Hutzel, Vincent Sharkey and Michael Stack. John Bivas recorded the victory in relief of Stephen Bove with 1.1 shutout innings. Mike Cranston added another two shutout innings (2.67 ERA) and Mike Ceperano recorded the save with 1.2 shutout innings.\u00a0 They will return to action tomorrow against Southern Connecticut. Molloy lost 7-6 to the University of Bridgeport to fall to 14-17. They were down 7-1 entering the bottom of the ninth but put together a rally that fell just short. Matt Castaneda suffered the loss in relief.\u00a0 Kevin Podell had three hits and two RBI for the Lions, who will now play Felician today.\u00a0 Old Westbury edged St. Joseph’s 3-1 in a Skyline Conference matchup. Both starting pitchers, Dan DiBlasi of the Golden Eagles and Tim Ingram of the Panthers, threw complete game with Ingram getting the best of it. He struck out 11 batters against only two hits and two walks for his fifth win of the season. DiBlasi falls to 2-5.\u00a0 The go-ahead run scored in the bottom of the third on a squeeze play.\u00a0 Anthony Bonilla and DiBlasi had the lone hits for the Golden Eagles, who fall to 14-15 on the season and will play Western Connecticut on Thursday. The Panthers will have a tough match up with Kean today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[460],"class_list":{"0":"post-1082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"tag-archive"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n