PHILADELPHIA – A go-ahead grand slam home run by senior shortstop Aaron Brill (West Palm Beach, Fla.) allowed the Felician College baseball team to complete a comeback from a late five-run deficit and earn a 9-7 Game 2 victory and a sweep of its Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader over host Philadelphia University on Wednesday afternoon at Alumni Field. Sophomore John Holland (Jackson, N.J.) pitched a six-hit shutout as Felician won Game 1, 7-0.

Brill, the reigning CACC Player of the Week, went 5 for 10 on the day, scored three runs and drove in six for Felician, the No. 9-ranked team in the most recent NCAA Division-II East Region writers poll. Classmates Joe Petosa (Spotswood, N.J.) and Jordan Tackett (Fredericksburg, Va.) amassed four hits apiece in the twinbill.

The Golden Falcons (14-11, 6-2 CACC) fell behind, 7-2, after five innings of the nightcap, and that score held into the eighth inning. Senior left fielder Petosa hit a two-out, two run homer in the top of the eighth to give Felician hope, and Matthew Facendo (Hazlet, N.J.), the sixth Golden Falcon pitcher of the game, came on to pitch a perfect bottom of the eighth.

Sophomore right-hander Luke Floer (Brewster, N.Y.) (0-1) entered to close for Philadelphia, but Tackett kept the visitors' hopes alive with a one-out hit. Felician loaded the bases on pinch-hit singles by Mike Martone (Brick, N.J.) and Chris Faber (Neptune, N.J.), and an RBI single from leadoff man Gabriel Fellin (Temple, Pa.) pulled the Golden Falcons to within 7-5. Following a pitching change, Brill deposited a 3-and-1 offering over the left field fence.

Facendo (2-0) struck out the first two hitters in the home half of the ninth. John Sczepanski (Lafayette Hill, Pa.) singled, but Facendo retired the side on a fly ball to right field. Ram starting pitcher Fernando Garza (Laredo, Texas) gave up one earned run on four hits in a six-inning no decision, and teammate Rick Reigner (Havertown, Pa.) hit a grand slam in Philadelphia's five-run fourth.

Holland (2-3) won his second consecutive nine-inning complete game in the opener, and tossed Felician's first complete-game shutout in nearly three years. He struck out five batters and walked two, and induced inning-ending double-play grounders in three consecutive frames from the sixth to the eighth. He ended the day with 121 pitches, 77 for strikes.  

Felician tallied twice without a hit in the third inning, and scored again on an outfield error in the fourth. The Golden Falcons then broke the game open with four sixth-inning runs, highlighted by Brill's two-run double.

Felician out-hit the Rams, 11-6. Brill was 3 for 5, while Petosa, Tackett, and Brennan Price (Middlesex, N.J.) each collected two hits and drove in a run. Designated hitter Ken McCormick (Yardley, Pa.) was 2 for 4 for Philadelphia (8-15, 2-4).

The last Golden Falcon to pitch a complete-game shutout before Wednesday was Joel Sanchez against Dominican (N.Y.) College on Apr. 13, 2011. Felician has posted five combined shutouts since then.