BRONXVILLE, N.Y. – Batting in the No. 3 position for the first time this season, Felician College junior Jay Collazo (Wall, N.J.) responded with an 8 for 9, four-RBI performance as the Golden Falcons swept a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference baseball doubleheader from host Concordia (N.Y.) College, 4-2 and 5-4, on Saturday afternoon at Clipper Field. Collazo went 5 for 5 in Game 2, posting the first 5-hit game by a Felician player in more than three years.

The Felician wins, combined with other league results on Saturday, changed the face of the CACC playoff race. With the top six teams at season's end reaching the conference playoffs, Concordia began the day in third place, with Felician three games behind but in eighth. With four league games to play, the Golden Falcons (16-25, 8-8 CACC) now sit in a tie for fifth, one game back of the fourth-place Clippers.

It took 11 innings to decide Saturday's opening game, with junior Chris Faber (Neptune, N.J) striking the decisive below. Junior Jordan Tackett (Fredericksburg, Va.) drew a one-out walk in the visitors' half of the 11^th, and Faber followed with a double to left-center field that scored Tackett from first base. Faber would advance on a passed ball and score on a two-out single by Ralph Caccavale (North Massapequa, N.Y.).

Felician freshman right-hander John Holland (Jackson, N.J.) (3-2) stayed on to retire the side in order in the bottom of the 11^th and earn the victory. Holland worked 3 2/3 hitless frames, striking out three batters and walking one. Golden Falcon starter Vic Monteagudo (West Palm Beach, Fla./John I. Leonard) yielded one earned run on five hits in seven innings in a no-decision.

Collazo, starting in right field, drove in each of Felician's first two tallies. He plated Aaron Brill (West Palm Beach, Fla.) with a fourth inning single, and doubled home Gabriel Fellin (Temple, Pa.) following a Brill sacrifice in the eighth. The Clippers used two Golden Falcon errors to tie the game in the bottom of the eighth and eventually force extra innings.

Collazo finished 3 for 5 and four other Golden Falcons had a pair of hits as Felician out-hit Concordia, 13-5. Clipper senior left-hander Anthony Pisano (Clarkstown, N.Y.) gave up 11 hits but only two runs and struck out three over eight innings.

Game 2 also was decided in the final inning. The teams were tied, 4-4, after eight, when Brill and Collazo singled to start the ninth. A fielder's choice grounder put runners at the corners, and a sacrifice fly to left by Chris Ayala (Marlboro, N.J.) brought home Brill with the go-ahead run. Senior right-hander Brett Hauber (Deposit, N.Y.) worked around a one-out double in the bottom of the inning to earn his first save of 2013.

Collazo, playing his more familiar catching position, stroked five singles, drove in two more runs with a two-run single in the first, and scored twice. The previous Golden Falcon to achieve five hits in a game was current senior Mike Farrell (Red Bank, N.J.), who did so as a freshman at Lincoln (Pa.) University on March 21, 2010.

After Collazo's first-inning blow, Concordia (16-18-1, 9-7) rebounded with four runs on five hits in the bottom of the frame, picking up the final three after two were out. Freshman Brian Bilello (Lynbrook, N.Y.) capped the rally with a two-run single.

But Golden Falcon junior righty Stephen Paladino (Staten Island, N.Y.) combined with three relievers to keep the Clippers off of the scoreboard the rest of the day, as Concordia left 12 runners on base. Sophomore left-hander Jack Fowler (Shrewsbury, N.J.) (2-3) earned the victory, pitching the sixth, seventh, and eighth and allowing just one hit and no walks.

Collazo scored on a third-inning error and a double-play ball by Ayala in the fifth to tie the game, setting up the ninth-inning rally. Felician owned a 14-10 edge in base hits. Brill finished with two hits in each game and scored three times on the day.

Felician's final four CACC games are all at home, beginning with Wednesday's 11:30 a.m. tilt against Bloomfield College at the Lyndhurst Recreation Complex.