CARY, N.C. – The Felician College baseball team suffered a pair of non-conference losses on Monday at the USA Baseball National Training Complex. The Golden Falcons were upended by Pace University, 11-10, in their morning game before falling to nationally-ranked and undefeated Franklin Pierce University, 9-6, on Monday afternoon. Felician (5-13) went 0-4 on its two-day visit to Cary.

Sophomore first-baseman Brennan Price (Middlesex, N.J.) and sophomore second-baseman Rob Fisher (Matawan, N.J.) each had four hits on the day for Felician. Price finished 8 for 16 on the four-game swing to North Carolina.

Pace, the designated visiting team on Monday morning, scored three times in the top of the eighth inning to open up an 11-6 lead. But Felician staged a huge rally in the bottom of the ninth. Andrew LaMura (Brick, N.J.) who had led off with a double, scored on a one-out wild pitch, and Branden Shaw (Cooper City, Fla.) followed with a two-run single. Two batters later, a potential game-ending double-play grounder was bobbled for an error.

Junior left-hander Michael Forgione (West Harrison, N.Y.) entered as the third Pace pitcher of the inning, and promptly hit Matt Diesel (Massapequa Park, N.Y.) with a pitch to load the bases. But Forgione then caught a batter looking at strike three and induced a pop-up to earn his first save of the season.

Felician took advantage of three Setter errors to score four times in the first inning. But Pace erased the deficit quickly, scoring one run in the second, then five, on only two hits, in the third. Four Golden Falcon pitchers combined to walk 10 batters and hit three others.

Shaw went 2 for 4 with two runs scored and four runs batted in. He was one of four Golden Falcons to put up a multi-hit game. Junior righty Dean Loucka (Wood-Ridge, N.J.) (1-2) allowed six runs (five earned) in 2 2/3 innings and suffered the loss. His counterpart, Jonathan Chudy (Goshen, N.Y.) (1-2) battled through seven frames giving up six runs (one earned) on nine hits with three strikeouts. Tom Midolo (Brooklyn, N.Y.) hit a solo home run and Michael Gulino (Meriden, Conn.) was 2 for 4 for Pace (2-6).

Felician went down to a one-run defeat to the Setters for the second consecutive day.

Later on Monday, Franklin Pierce (15-0), ranked No. 9 in the most recent NCAA Division II national writers' poll and first regionally, tallied three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to snap a 4-4 tie. With runners on second and third and one out, the Golden Falcons were unable to make the play at the plate on consecutive fielder's choice grounders. FPU junior Maxx Sheehan (San Jose, Calif.) capped the rally when he hustled home on a short sacrifice fly by John Razzino (Cranston, R.I.).

After the Ravens tacked on another run in the seventh, Felician pulled to within 8-6 by plating a pair in the top of the eighth. The Golden Falcons scored a run on a throwing error, and Jason Polgano (Bronx, N.Y.) followed with an RBI triple. But FPU extended its edge again when Sheehan came home on a wild pitch in the home half of the eighth.

Price was 2 for 4 with a double and Fisher finished 2 for 5 for Felician. Senior lefty Jack Fowler (Shrewsbury, N.J.) (0-4) started and took the loss, yielding seven runs (three earned) on nine hits over six innings. He struck out six batters and walked one.

FPU junior Tim Norton (Berlin, Conn) (1-0) pitched 3 1/3 innings of one-run relief for the win. Sheehan went 3 for 5 with three runs, three RBI and two stolen bases.

Felician is slated to play its home opener on Wednesday at 3 p.m. at the Lyndhurst Recreation Complex against 2014 regional champion St. Thomas Aquinas College.