SETTERS PULLS AWAY WITH A 3-1 WIN OVER PANTHERS FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE WIN

PLEASANTVILLE, NY- The Pace University baseball team was victorious over the Panthers of Adelphi University this afternoon by a 3-1 score in Northeast-10 Conference action. The Setters improve to 15-25 overall and 8-16 in the NE-10, while the Panthers fall to 29-14 overall and 15-9 in conference play.

The bats were silenced until the top of the third inning when the Panthers drove home their first and only run of the ball game to take a 1-0 lead.

The Setters fired right back in the bottom of the third, when Kenny Wright (Middle Island, NY/Longwood) (Middle Island, NY/Longwood) started things up with a leadoff double. Wright would score when Robert Horn (Stamford, CT/Westhill) (Stamford, CT/Westhill) hit a one out single to left, pushing across the first run of the game for Pace to tie the game at one. After a single by Chris Spatkowski (Bristol, CT/Bristol Eastern) moved Horn to third, Horn would then come home as the lead run when JJ Conrad (Hamburg, NJ/Wallkill Valley) (Hamburg, NJ/Wallkill Valley) singled through the left side to give Pace a 2-1 lead. Spatkowski led the Setters in hitting on the day going 3-for-4 in the ball game.

Pace would add on an insurance run in the bottom of the seventh when Wright singled through the right side scoring Patrick Chaputian (Sea Cliff, NY/North Shore) (Sea Cliff, NY/North Shore) from second to make the game 3-1.

Michael Franza (Lynbrook, NY/Lynbrook) (2-2) started on the mound for the Setters, pitching five innings allowing just one run on two hits, while walking four and striking out one. Michael Mastrogiovanni (Glen Rock, NJ/Glen Rock) (1) pitched in relief to eventually earn his first save of the season, going 2 2/3 innings allowing one hit, one walk, and a strikeout.

The Setters will return to action on Friday, April 30 when they face off against Dowling College in a non-conference doubleheader set to start at 2 pm at Pace's Finnerty Field.