LYNDHURST, N.J. – Sophomore right-hander Rob Naughton (Levittown, N.Y./Chaminade) allowed three hits over seven scoreless innings to lead the Felician College baseball team to a 5-1 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference victory over visiting Dominican (N.Y.) College on Wednesday afternoon at the Lyndhurst Recreation Complex. The second game of the teams' scheduled conference doubleheader was then postponed indefinitely due to rain.

Dominican (2-6, 0-1 CACC) was never able to put more than one man on base in an inning during Naughton's outing, and all three of its hits were singles. Naughton (3-0) departed after 103 pitches having struck out seven batters and walked two.

Felician (9-14, 3-0) reached Charger starting pitcher Peter Martinez (White Plains, N.Y./White Plains) (0-2) for two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. With one out, Andrew LaMura (Brick, N.J./Red Bank Catholic) singled up the middle and moved to second base on a groundout. Freshman Matt Diesel (Massapequa Park, N.Y./Massapequa) then blasted an RBI triple to deep left field and scored on a ground ball single by Matt Kleinstein (Marlboro, N.J./Colts Neck).

The two-run lead for the Golden Falcons stood until the top of the eighth, when the Chargers rallied against the Felician bullpen. With two outs, William Seymour (Sloatsburg, N.Y./Suffern) drew a walk and scored from first on Carlos Lopez's (Miami, Fla./Mater Lakes Academy). A wild pitch and a walk put runners on first and third base, and Felician summoned senior righty Matthew Facendo (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan). Leonardo Bravo (Bronx, N.Y./St. Raymond's) stole second base to put the go-ahead run in scoring position, but Facendo induced a pop-up to escape the jam.

Felician took advantage of two Charger errors to plate three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Sophomore second-baseman J.R. Meneses (Lake Worth, Fla./Zion Lutheran) capped the rally with a run-scoring groundout. Facendo then worked around a leadoff walk to retire the side in the ninth, earning his first save of the season and extending his school career record to 12.

Kleinstein finished 2 for 3 and LaMura scored twice for the Golden Falcons, who out-hit Dominican, 6-4. The Chargers left nine runners on base. Martinez gave up two earned runs on six hits with five strikeouts and one walk in 7 1/3 frames.

Felician continues CACC action when it travels to Concordia (N.Y.) College for a noon doubleheader on Saturday.