Palm Beach, Fla. (3/7/14)  The Dominican College baseball team lost their first game of the day to Southern Connecticut State University, 15-1, but rebounded with a 5-4 victory over Adelphi University to now stand at 2-4 on the season.

Game One:  The Owls scored 15 runs and 15 hits, while limiting the Charger offense to four hits.  The lone DC run came in the ninth stanza on the RBI groundout from second basemen Alex Lorenzo (Miami Beach, Fla.) for the 15-1 final.

Left fielder Jayson Gray (New Rochelle, N.Y.) recorded two of the four Dominican hits.

Game Two:  DC took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on the RBI single off the bat of catcher Gabriel Valverde (Plantation, Fla.).  The Panthers tied the game in the third, but the Chargers added a run in the top of the fifth on a balk, but AU answered with a run in their half of the inning and add a run in the sixth for the 3-2 advantage.

In the DC half of the seventh stanza center fielder Jonathan Martinez (Mastic Beach, N.Y.) scored on a passed ball to knot the score 3-3.  Heading into the top of the ninth inning trailing, 4-3, Dominican rallied with two runs on a passed ball and a sacrifice fly ball from Lorenzo to pull ahead 5-3.  A  Panther run in the bottom half made the score 5-4.

Jesse McIlwaine (Huntington, N.Y.) picked up the win in two innings of relief, allowing one run on three hits.

Starter Peter Llerena (Pembroke Pines, Fla.) went seven innings, allowing three runs on 10 hits in the no decision.