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ADELPHI UNIVERSITY BEATS CHARGERS BASEBALL
March 20, 2011

ADELPHI UNIVERSITY BEATS CHARGERS BASEBALL

Garden City, NY (3/20/11) The Adelphi University baseball team collected 16 hits in a 7-4 non-conference victory over the visiting Chargers of Dominican College in a game played this afternoon at Bonomo Field. With the loss Dominican falls to 5-6 overall, while Adelphi improves to 10-5-1 on the season.

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Garden City, NY (3/20/11)  The Adelphi University baseball team collected 16 hits in a 7-4 non-conference victory over the visiting Chargers of Dominican College in a game played this afternoon at Bonomo Field.  With the loss Dominican falls to 5-6 overall, while Adelphi improves to 10-5-1 on the season.

The Panthers struck for two runs in the second inning and added runs in the third and fourth to take a 4-0 lead.  Dominican scored their first run of the contest in the fifth inning as catcher Robert Iglesias (Mays Landing, NJ) drew a two out walk, moved to second on the single to center by Xavier Bonilla (Bronx, NY) and scored on the single to right field by Michael Levy, Jr (Salisbury Mill, NY).

Dominican added two runs in the top of the seventh, as Christopher Gonzalez (Bronx, NY) led off the inning with a single to left field and later moved to second as Iglesias reached on an AU error.  A second Panther error allowed Bonilla to reach and load the bases and Levy recorded his second RBI of the game with a single to bring in Gonzalez.  Marco Moreno (Miami, FL) hit a ground ball to second which brought in Iglesias and made the score 4-3.

Adelphi added a run in the seventh to hold a 5-3 lead, but the Chargers once again cut it to a single run in the top of the eighth on a solo home run off the bat of Tony Blake (Windsor, CT) to cut the deficit to 5-4.  AU added two runs in the bottom stanza for the 7-4 final score.

Levy led the Chargers offensively, going 4-5 with two RBIs.

Freshman right handed pitcher Richard Leachy (Brookfield, WI) fell to 0-3 on the season in six innings of work, allowing four runs on 12 hits and four strikeouts.  Caleb Whitely (San Antonio, TX) pitched two innings, allowing three runs on four hits.

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 18 varsity intercollegiate sports that compete at the NCAA Division II level.  To learn more about Dominican University New York, please visit www.duny.edu.