Courtesy of St. Thomas University Sports Information

Miami Gardens, Fla.--Ivan Izquierdo and Tim Davis struck out 15 Dominican College (N.Y.) (6-4) batters and Alex Pascual smashed a two-run homer to lead St. Thomas University (12-9, 3-6 in FSC) baseball past the Chargers, 3-1, Friday night at Esposito Stadium.

For Izquierdo, the 8.1 innings pitched were the most in one start in his Bobcat career and the 13 strikeouts his largest total. He struck out at least one batter in every inning except the ninth. Davis picked up the slack in the strikeout department from there.

With St. Thomas leading 3-1 in the final inning, Izquierdo allowed consecutive one-out singles to Pete Gilardo (Cornwall, NY) and Jose Escalara(Bronx, NY). Davis came in and caught Alex O'Connell (Red Hook, NY)looking on a curveball before walking Chad Duesler (Northville, NY) to load the bases. The junior then got Jose Made (Binghamton, NY) swinging on a ball in the dirt - Made's fourth strikeout on the night. Juan Mora blocked the ball and stepped on home plate to record the game-ending force out.

Two Izquierdo walks led to Dominican's only run came on a Joe Kubanik (Stony Point, NY) grounder to the pitcher in the first to give the Chargers a 1-0 lead.

After Dominican's starting pitcher Daniel Bucci (Dobbs Ferry, NY) held the Bobcats scoreless in the first two innings, Jorge Fernandez singled with one out in the third and Pascual followed two batters later with a home run to deep left to give St. Thomas a 2-1 lead.

From there, Izquierdo and Bucci silenced opposingbatters. Ivan fanned the side in the fourth and two more in both the sixth and seventh. Bucci allowed a baserunner each inning after the second, but no runs after Pascual's blast.

Adrian F. Gonzalez walked to load the bases in the seventh, but the Bobcats couldn't get to Bucci, as he struck out Jojo Gutierrez. St. Thomas got an unearned run off of Zack Hoffstater (Glasco, NY) when Juan Santana reached to lead off the eighth on a Made error at short. He stole second -one of six Bobcat thefts on the night - moved to third on a groundout to second by Aliercy Nunez and scored on Mora's one-hopper over a drawn in Dominican infield.

Bucci went seven innings in defeat, allowing two runs on four hits while walking five and fanning seven.

The save for Davis was his first on the season.