Felician Athletics - 3/3/07 BASEBALL - Calabrese, Flynn Allow Felician To Split

FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- Freshman Jeff Calabrese (Freehold, NJ) pitched 4 1/3 innings of hitless relief, allowing the Felician baseball team to come from behind for an 11-inning, 9-8 victory over Concordia (N.Y.) College on Saturday night at the Lawnwood Complex and split a pair of non-conference Northeast Region contests. Earlier on Saturday, the Golden Falcons dropped a 23-8 decision to Bryant University.

In the bottom of the 11th inning, Felician loaded the bases with one out on a Frank Quintana (Miami, FL) double and two walks. Senior Chris Flynn (Keyport, NJ) pinch hit and grounded a single through the drawn-in right side of the infield to score Quintana for the victory. The Golden Falcons extended the game when, with his team traling, 8-6, and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Dave Schoer (Manalapan, NJ) got a single through the middle with runners on second and third bases.

Calabrese (2-0), meanwhile, entered to escape a two-on, two-out jam in the top of the seventh, and went the rest of the way. He retired 12 of the 14 batters he faced, striking out five, walking one, and hitting one. Felician pitching combined for 15 strikeouts, as starter William Senna (Wallingford, CT) fanned nine in 4 2/3 innings.

Kenny Vanderhee (Aventura, FL) was 3 for 4 with a homerun and Thomas DiPietro (Staten Island, NY) homered and drove in three runs for the Golden Falcons, who stole seven bases. Michael Gagliardi hit a roundtripper for the Clippers (0-2).

In the Golden Falcons' first game of the day, they committed nine errors, leading to nine unearned runs for Bryant (2-7), which also pounded out 26 base hits. The Bulldogs took a 10-1 lead after five innings. Felician scored three times in the bottom of the sixth and still had the bases loaded and one out, but Bryant starter Luke Cowan struck out the next two hitters to escape further damage. The Bulldogs then put the game away with a six-run seventh.

Jason Alexander and Jeff Vigurs had five hits apiece for Bryant, and Vigurs and Taylor Ferguson (3 for 7, 4 RBI) homered. Cowan allowed four runs over six innings and struck out eight. DiPietro hit a three-run homerun and Vanderhee was 2 for 4 with a solo shot for Felician (6-3).