Kissimmee, Fla. – The Pace University baseball team tallied a season-high in runs on Tuesday afternoon en route to a 9-6 triumph over Mansfield University. The win moves the Setters' record this season to 5-1-1.

Inside the Numbers
*For the third time this season, the Blue and Gold racked up 15 hits at the plate. Six different Setters put together multi-hit games on Tuesday.

*Seniors Paul Piccolino (Staten Island, NY/Monsignor Farrell) and Michael Gulino (Meriden, CT/Maloney) continued what has been a red-hot beginning to 2018. The duo combined to go five-for-nine with six runs scored and four RBIs. Gulino knocked in all of those runs, including a two-run home run in the third.

*Brian Bohlander (Stony Point, NY/North Rockland) also hammered a long ball for the Blue and Gold, while Michael Salmonese (Waldwick, NJ/Waldwick) tied Piccolino with a team-best three hits. Michael Barbato (Sparkill, NY/Tappan Zee) and Matthew Kurdewan (Neptune, NJ/Red Bank Catholic) chipped in two hits apiece.

*Thomas Ippolito (Randolph, NJ/Randolph) earned the victory in his first-career start on the mound. The freshman allowed four runs in five innings, while striking out five.

*Senior Kevin Wiltse (East Setauket, NY/Ward Mellville/University of Hartford) also tallied five strikeouts in 2.2 scoreless innings out of the bullpen. Jake Amoroso (Stratford, CT/St. Joseph) earned the save for Pace as he retired the final batter of the game.

How it Happened
The Setters bounced back from an early 2-0 deficit, scoring eight runs over the first five innings of the game.

Bohlander provided Pace's first spark with a two-run bomb in the second inning to give Pace a 3-2 lead. Then after a Salmonese RBI single in the third, Gulino launched the Setters' second two-run blast of the game to put them up 6-3.

The Setters would add two more in the fourth, capped off by an RBI base hit from Felix Camacho (Bronx, NY/St. Raymond's High School for Boys / Westchester Community College) that put the Setters up 8-3.

After Mansfield cut the lead to 8-6 with runs in the fifth and sixth, Camacho struck again with an RBI ground out in the sixth.

Leading by three after six complete, Wiltse entered the game out of the pen and shut the door on the Mountaineers. The red-shirt junior tallied eight outs of the bullpen—five of which came by way of strikeout. Amoroso followed Wiltse to get the game's final out.

Up Next
The Setters continue their Florida trip on Wednesday with a matchup against Wayne State at 3 p.m.