CARY, N.C. – The Felician College baseball team amassed 36 base hits in defeating a pair of non-conference, regionally-ranked opponents during the Coaches Vs. Cancer Invitational on Saturday at the USA Baseball Complex. Felician defeated Pace University, 13-2, in its afternoon game before coming back for a 10-6 evening victory over the University of New Haven.

Pace is ranked No. 10 in the most recent NCAA Division II East Region writers poll, and New Haven is the No. 4 team in that balloting. Felician received votes in the poll.

For the day, Felician senior outfielder Joe Petosa (Spotswood, N.J.) went 5 for 8 with a double, a triple, and seven runs batted in. His triple against the Chargers tied him with Vinnie DiBenedetti for the all-time school record in that category. Classmate Aaron Brill (West Palm Beach, Fla.) was 6 for 9 on Saturday. Brill had a triple and scored twice in each game. Golden Falcon leadoff man Gabriel Fellin (Temple, Pa.) scored six runs on the afternoon.

Against Pace (3-4), the Golden Falcons, the designated visiting team, got out to a 4-1 lead after three innings, then broke the game open with a three-run fifth. Freshman Brennan Price (Middlesex, N.J.) highlighted the rally with a two-run single. Price had another two-run single in the sixth as Felician tacked on four runs to move ahead, 11-2.

Felician junior left-hander Jack Fowler (Shrewsbury, N.J.) benefited from the offensive explosion. Fowler (3-0) worked through five innings, giving up two runs on six hits. The Felician bullpen tossed four hitless frames, led by two perfect innings from Lawrence Schoer (Manalapan, N.J.). Price, who started as the designated hitter, made his collegiate pitching debut and escaped a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, and Joe Neri (Laurence Harbor, N.J.) tossed a scoreless ninth.

Price was 3 for 4 with four RBI and Fellin went 1 for 2 with three walks and scored three runs for Felician. Pace's Chris Gili (Manorville, N.Y.) was 2 for 4 with a double.

Petosa drove in five runs in the first four innings, including a three-run triple in the second, to get the Golden Falcons out to an early 7-4 edge against New Haven (2-1). From there, reliever Stephen Paladino (Staten Island, N.Y.) shut down the Chargers, allowing one hit with three strikeouts in 4 2/3 scoreless innings.

Senior third-baseman Jordan Tackett (Fredericksburg, Va.) hit a solo home run in the seventh, and Felician tacked on two more runs in the eighth for a 10-4 lead. But New Haven tallied twice and brought the tying run to the plate in the bottom of the ninth before John Holland (Jackson, N.J.) induced a fly ball to center field to end the game.

The Golden Falcons put together 19 base hits, including three each for Brill, Scott De Jong (North Haledon, N.J.), Petosa and Tackett. Chris DeMorais (West Hartford, Conn.) was 2 for 5 with three RBI for New Haven.

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