Felician Athletics - 5/8/08 BASEBALL - Felician Eliminated From CACC Baseball Tournament

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The Felician College baseball team was eliminated from the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Tournament with a 7-1 losers' bracket loss to No. 3 seed Dominican (N.Y.) College on Thursday night at Frawley Stadium. Earlier on Thursday, the Golden Falcons dropped their first round game to top-seeded and regionally-ranked Philadelphia University, 13-0.

In the night game, Dominican (27-24) took a 4-0 lead after three innings, then chased Felician starter Nick Riker (Highlands, NJ) (5-6) in the fourth. Reliever Scott VanEs (Secaucus, NJ) escaped a two-on, one-out jam to keep the deficit at four, but Charger starter Michael Mondesir (Jamaica, NY) carried a no-hitter into the sixth inning.

Following a one-out walk, Felician catcher Marcos Torres (Miami, FL) lined a single to right-center field in the top of the sixth for Felician's first hit, and Hector Bello (Miami, FL) followed with a run-scoring single. But Mondesir recorded two strikeouts to escape the jam, and the Golden Falcon offense never threatened again. Mondesir struck out nine, walked three and allowed two hits over eight innings.

Michael Munoz (Bronx, NY) went 3 for 4 and scored twice to lead Dominican. Riker allowed four runs on nine hits in 3 1/3 innings as the Chargers, who had lost to No. 2 seed Caldwell College in the day's first game, banged out 15 hits in the contest.

In No. 3 seed Felician's first-round setback, Philadelphia freshman right-hander Jared Farbman (Philadelphia, PA) pitched a five-hit shutout to improve to 6-0 on the season. The Ram offense meanwhile, produced 11 base hits in the first four innings, jumping out to an 8-0 lead. Philadelphia (22-20), the No. 7 team in the most recent D-II Baseball Committee Northeast Regional Ranking, scored in six of its eight offensive innings and out-hit the Golden Falcons, 15-5.

JungMin Lee (Seoul, Korea) was 4 for 5 with four runs scored and two RBI and Mike Anderson (Waldwick, NJ) had three hits for the Rams, who face Caldwell tomorrow at noon in the winners' bracket final. Bello went 2 for 3 and Mike Libretta (Staten Island, NY) had a double for the Golden Falcons, who finish 26-24. Sophomore left-hander Al Jardine (Neptune, NJ) (2-2) started on the mound for Felician and took the loss, giving up five runs on seven hits in 2 2/3 innings.

Boxscore vs. Philadelphia
Boxscore vs. Dominican