BROOKLYN, N.Y. – With Felician College down to its final out, sophomore catcher Sean Rogers (Kendall Park, N.J.) blasted a go-ahead two-run triple to lead the Golden Falcons to a 5-2 Game 2 victory and a split of their non-conference baseball doubleheader with Adelphi University on Sunday afternoon. Adelphi claimed an 8-3 win in Game 1.

The twinbill was played at MCU Park, home of the Brooklyn Cyclones, the Class-A affiliate of the New York Mets.

Felician senior shortstop Branden Shaw (Cooper City, Fla.) was 5 for 8 on the day. He scored three runs and drove in two. Freshman infielder Bruce Strickland (Hazlet, N.J.) went 4 for 9.

The nightcap was a scheduled seven-inning affair, and Felician (16-23) was the designated visiting team. Golden Falcon freshman left-hander Jason Polgano (Bronx, N.Y.), making his first career pitching start, and Adelphi sophomore righty T.J. Santiago (Linden, N.J.) spent most of the game locked in a duel, although neither was involved in the decision.

After allowing a leadoff single to Ray Triano (Brick, N.J.) in the first, Polgano retired 15 consecutive batters. But Santiago was almost as efficient, giving uip three hits and two walks in five scoreless frames. Felician scratched across a run in the top of the sixth off of Santiago when Shaw led off with a single, moved to second and then third base on a pair of groundouts, and scored on a wild pitch.

Adelphi came back with a pair of runs off of Polgano and the Felician bullpen in the home half of the sixth. Pinch-hitter Kory Cassara (Mastic, N.Y.) started the frame with a single, and pinch-runner John Fogarty (Westbury, N.Y.) was sacrificed to second base. Pinch-hitter Robert Vani (Garden City, N.Y.) tied the game with a long triple to straightaway center field. Matthew Facendo (Hazlet, N.J.) entered for Felician and issued two walks (one intentional) to load the bases, and Panther junior Tyler Murphy (Islip, N.Y.) followed with a sacrifice fly.

Adelphi turned to senior righty Mike Cranston (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) (3-2) to start the seventh. Cranston had already recorded six outs and a save in Game 1. This time, with two men on, Rogers' shot to right-center was the first of four consecutive two-out hits for the Golden Falcons. Shaw and Polgano followed with RBI doubles, and Facendo (3-1) worked around a two-out walk to pitch a scoreless seventh. Shaw was 2 for 3 and Rogers went 2 for 4 for Felician, while Polgano struck out four batters and walked none, throwing only 57 pitches in 5 1/3 innings.

Four Felician errors led to five unearned runs for the Panthers in Game 1, as each team used six pitchers. Adelphi, the visiting team, took the lead for good in the top of the fourth by plating two runs with only one hit to break a 1-1 tie.

Trailing, 5-1, the Golden Falcons scored twice in the seventh on run-scoring singles by Shaw and Strickland. But Felician left two men on without scoring in the eighth before Adelphi tacked on three runs in the top of the ninth. Panther freshman right-hander Michael Tarpey (Uniondale, N.Y.) (1-2) pitched two scoreless innings of relief to earn the victory. Freshman Steve Slagmolen (Toms River, N.J.) (1-1) started and suffered the loss for Felician, yielding three earned runs on three hits in 3 2/3 stanzas.

Strickland went 3 for 5 to record his fourth consecutive multi-hit game. Shaw and Rob Fisher (Matawan, N.J.) were each 2 for 4 for Felician. Adelphi's Fogarty drove in three runs.

Felician travels to St. Thomas Aquinas on Tuesday before visiting Caldwell University for a key Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader on Wednesday.