CHARGERS TAKE ONE FROM LIGHTNING

Pomona, N.Y. (4/29/17) The Dominican College baseball team split a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) double-header with the visiting Lightning of Goldey-Beacom College in games played this afternoon at the Palisades Credit Union Park. DC took the opener, 5-3, but fell in the night cap, 10-7.

CHARGERS TAKE ONE FROM LIGHTNING

Team Stats

April 29, 2017

Pomona, N.Y. (4/29/17)  The Dominican College baseball team split a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) double-header with the visiting Lightning of Goldey-Beacom College in games played this afternoon at the Palisades Credit Union Park.  DC took the opener, 5-3, but fell in the night cap, 10-7.

Game One:  DC took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first as first basemen Anthony Bartolomei (Oakhurst, N.J.) hit an RBI single up-the-middle.

GBC tied the game in the second, but the Chargers added two runs in the third on the two-run home run off the bat of center fielder Arbely Soto (Bronx, N.Y.) and added a run in the fourth on the run-scoring ground out from Brandon Simone (Bayside, N.Y.) to make the score 4-1.

The Lightning added two more runs in the fifth to cut the deficit to 4-3, but DC regained a two-run advantage in the seventh on the RBI single to left field from second basemen Justin Decker (Rotterdam, N.Y.) for the 5-3 lead and eventual win.

Soto finished with three hits and two RBIs and two runs in the game.

Bartolomei finished with two hits.

John-Michael Broderick (Spring Lake Heights, N.J.) improved to 4-2 on the season, after allowing three runs on seven hits in five innings.

Nicholas Galese (Totowa, N.J.) picked up his second save and collected four strikeouts.

Game Two:  Dominican tied the game 3-3 in the bottom of the first as Bartolomei singled home two runs and Decker later followed with an RBI double to left center field.

GBC regained a two-run lead in the second, but the Chargers rallied with four runs in their half of the second to take a 7-5 lead.  Max Franzone (Nanuet, N.Y.) scored on a wild pitch and Bartolomei followed with an RBI ground out.  Decker then produced a run-scoring triple to right center field and Tyler Malia (Delran, N.J.) reached on a fielder's choice to allow a run to score.

The Lightning scored two runs in the fifth and added three more in the sixth to take a 10-7 lead and eventual win.

Reliever Brett Schneider (Coral Springs, Fla.) took the loss (2-3) in 1/3 innings of work, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits.

Following the split, the Chargers now stand at 17-24 overall and 11-11 in CACC play.

The aim of Dominican University New York is to promote educational excellence, leadership, and service in an environment characterized by respect for the individual and concern for the community and its needs. Founded by the Dominican Sisters of Blauvelt, the university is an independent institution of higher learning, Catholic in origin and heritage. In the Dominican tradition, it fosters the active, shared pursuit of truth and embodies an ideal of education rooted in the values of reflective understanding and compassionate involvement.  Committed to building its programs upon a strong foundation in the liberal arts and sciences, the university maintains a student-centered climate and serves a diverse community of students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The university empowers this community of learners to excel, lead and serve with integrity and to engage responsibly in the pursuit of a more just, ethical and sustainable world.  Dominican also sponsors 17 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.