LYNDHURST, N.J. – Junior catcher Chris Ayala (Marlboro, N.J./Marlboro) collected a career-high three hits and junior third-baseman Aaron Brill (West Palm Beach, Fla./John I. Leonard) drove in the go-ahead run as the Felician College baseball team snapped a five-game losing streak with a come-from-behind 4-3 non-conference victory over visiting Mercy College on Wednesday afternoon at the Lyndhurst Recreation Complex.

The contest was tied, 3-3, when Felician freshman shortstop Ralph Caccavale (North Massapequa, N.Y./Plainedge) sent a one-out double down the right-field line in the bottom of the seventh inning. Caccavale advanced to third base on a groundout, and scored the eventual winning run when Brill beat out a ground ball in the shortstop hole.

Senior right-hander Vic Monteagudo (West Palm Beach, Fla./John I. Leonard) (3-4), the fourth of six Golden Falcon pitchers, tossed a scoreless top of the seventh and was credited with the victory. Monteagudo was making his first relief appearance of the season.

Felician freshman righty John Holland (Jackson, N.J./Jackson Liberty) struck out all three batters he faced in the eighth before giving way to Jack Fowler (Shrewsbury, N.J./Red Bank Regional). The sophomore lefty pitched a perfect ninth, recording two strikeouts, to earn his first collegiate save. Fowler, normally a set-up man, matched the Felician record with 26 appearances in 2012, and is tied atop the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference with 19 this season.

Mercy (6-23-1) took the lead with single runs in the first and fifth innings before the Golden Falcons rallied to tie the game with a pair of tallies in the home half of the fifth. Each team scored a single run in the sixth. Felician (11-22) out-hit the Mavericks, 10-6.

Ayala drove in a pair of runs with a fifth-inning triple and a two-out single in the sixth. He added another single in the eighth before departing for a pinch-runner. Brill and Caccavale added two hits apiece for Felician. Golden Falcon freshman pitcher Joe Schultheis (Bethpage, N.Y./Bethpage) started and enjoyed his best outing of the season in a no-decision, yielding two runs on four hits with five strikeouts in five innings.

Senior right-hander Ray Thaisz (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Joseph by-the-Sea) (0-4) was tagged with the loss for Mercy, giving up two runs on five hits in two innings of relief. The Mavericks' Jeremy Lovera (Carmel, N.Y./Carmel) and Jesus Jaile (Hartsdale, N.Y./Fordham Prep) were each 2 for 3 with an RBI.

Felician returns to action on Thursday with a key make-up CACC doubleheader at the University of the Sciences at 1 p.m. at Richie Ashburn Field in Philadelphia.