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Dominican's Big Fourth Inning Keys Comeback Past Felician

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ORANGEBURG, N.Y. – The Dominican (N.Y.) College baseball team scored six times in the bottom of the fourth inning to earn a come-from-behind 10-8 victory over visiting Felician College on Friday night at Veterans Memorial Park. The game counted as a non-league affair for the two members of the Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference

All of the game's scoring took place in the first four innings, which lasted exactly two hours. For the evening, the teams combined for 29 base hits, 10 walks, and 10 stolen bases, and played for three hours, 12 minutes.

Felician (18-29) led, 5-0, after 1 ½ innings. Senior third-baseman Mike Farrell (Red Bank, N.J.) blasted a two-run double in the first inning and an RBI triple in the second. Dominican dented the scoreboard in the bottom of the second, plating two runs on a two-out throwing error, then pulled within a 6-4 deficit with a pair of third-inning scores.

The Golden Falcons continued to apply offensive pressure in the fourth, when a two-run single by Jay Collazo (Wall, N.J.) chased DC starting pitcher Anthony Pastrana (Queens, N.Y.). But disaster struck for Felician in the home half of the fourth, when the Chargers took the lead for good with six runs on six hits. Kevin Rodriguez (Miami, Fla.) tied the game with a run-scoring single, and one out later, Dominican freshman shortstop Dylan Ebel (Coral Springs, Fla.) delivered the inning's final blow, a go-ahead two-run single.

Charger junior right-hander Jesse McIlwaine (Huntington, N.Y.) (2-1) pitched five innings of scoreless relief to earn the victory. McIlwaine scattered six hits, struck out five batters, and walked one. He escaped a two-on, two-out jam in the eighth, then gave way to Carlos Lopez (Miami, Fla.) with runners on the corners and one out in the ninth. Lopez induced a pop-up and strikeout for his third save.

With only three days of rest available before their first-round CACC playoff game, the Golden Falcons used eight pitchers. Sophomore lefty Jack Fowler (Shrewsbury, N.J.) (4-4), who set a Felician record with his 27th appearance of the season, was saddled with the loss.

Collazo finished 4 for 5 with three RBI for Felician, and fellow junior Gabriel Fellin (Temple, Pa.) had three hits, scored three runs, and stole three bases. Junior shortstop Aaron Brill (West Palm Beach, Fla.) went 2 for 3 and also scored three times. Kenny Harrell (Pompano Beach, Fla.) collected three hits for Dominican (28-19).

With a late-game single to right field, Felician senior second-baseman Jonathan Arche (Miami, Fla.) reached 100 hits for his combined collegiate career. He has 78 hits as a Golden Falcon and 22 in one year with Peru State University.

Felician completes its regular-season with a doubleheader at nationally-ranked Southern New Hampshire University on Sunday.

 
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Players Mentioned

Jonathan Arche

#8 Jonathan Arche

IF
6' 2"
Senior
Aaron Brill

#12 Aaron Brill

SS/2B
6' 0"
Junior
Jay Collazo

#10 Jay Collazo

C
6' 0"
Junior
Mike Farrell

#23 Mike Farrell

3B/1B
6' 0"
Senior
Gabriel Fellin

#1 Gabriel Fellin

OF
5' 9"
Junior
Jack Fowler

#6 Jack Fowler

P
5' 9"
Sophomore

Players Mentioned

Jonathan Arche

#8 Jonathan Arche

6' 2"
Senior
IF
Aaron Brill

#12 Aaron Brill

6' 0"
Junior
SS/2B
Jay Collazo

#10 Jay Collazo

6' 0"
Junior
C
Mike Farrell

#23 Mike Farrell

6' 0"
Senior
3B/1B
Gabriel Fellin

#1 Gabriel Fellin

5' 9"
Junior
OF
Jack Fowler

#6 Jack Fowler

5' 9"
Sophomore
P