March 24, 2007

Game One/Game Two

Garden City, N.Y. - The Adelphi baseball team rallied from four runs down in the bottom of the ninth in game one and jumped on Mercy early in game two, collecting, 7-6 and 7-1 wins over the visiting Flyers. With the sweep the Panthers improve to 9-5 overall and 2-0 in conference play, while Mercy falls to 0-13 overall and 0-2 in the East Coast Conference.

Game One
Adelphi and Mercy played five scoreless innings as Bobby Lanigan opened the game for the Panthers with seven innings of three run, five hit baseball. Adelphi trailed 3-0 heading into the top of the eighth inning when Mercy tacked on a fourth run. The Panthers got two runs back on Mike Testani's double, but Adelphi gave the runs right back and trailed 6-2 in the bottom of the ninth.

Bill Melillo opened the bottom of the ninth with a double and scored two batters later when Chris Viscuso doubled him home, pulling Adelphi within three runs, 6-3. Rob DeGennaro singled to right center, scoring Frank Staib and then a Mike Colonna walked scored Adelphi's fifth run. Testani stroked a single to right field, scoring two Adelphi runs and ending the game.

Frank Valeriano pitched 1.2 innings of two hit, two run relief to pick up the win, while Mercy's Steve Parisi was credited with the loss.

Game Two
Mike Myers went the distance in game two, pitching seven innings, allowing just one run and giving up three hits, striking out seven to collect the win. Billy Neubauer led the way for Adelphi in game two, driving in three runs on two home runs, the first of which came in the bottom of the second and started a five-run rally.

Adelphi returns to action on Sunday, March 25 when they host Mercy College at 1:00 pm in Garden City, New York.