NEWARK, N.J.  – Felician University junior outfielder Chris Fernandez (Boca Raton, Fla.) homered in each game as the Golden Falcons split a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference baseball doubleheader with host Bloomfield College on Sunday afternoon at West Side Park. Felician won Game 1, 10-5, before dropping Game 2, 10-6.

Felician used the longball to take control early in the day's opening game. A three-run blast by Colby Johnson (Frederick, Md.) staked the Golden Falcons to the lead before they recorded an out. Fernandez hit a two-run home run later in the first, and Dauri Genao (West New York, N.J.) did the same in the third to put the visitors in front, 7-0.   

Freshman pitcher Logan Waltz (Hazlet, N.J.) made the edge stand up. The right-hander worked 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on six hits with five strikeouts and one walk. Waltz (2-2) yielded single runs in the fourth and seventh frames. Felician then put the game away with a three-run eighth before Bloomfield scored three in the ninth for the final margin.

Luis De La Cruz (Jersey City, N.J.) had two doubles and two RBI for Felician, which also received a pair of hits from leadoff man Michael Kuver (Malanapan, N.J.). The Golden Falcons out-hit Bloomfield, 11-8. Tyree Bradley (West Orange, N.J.) was 2 for 4 and Luis Garcia (Paterson, N.J.) homered for the Bears (8-13, 2-3).

Felician was limited to three hits during the nightcap – a scheduled seven-inning affair -- but took a 6-5 lead on a three-run homer by Fernandez in the top of the sixth inning. But the Bears loaded the bases with one out in the home half off Golden Falcon reliever Dylan Morrill (Teaneck, N.J.) (3-2). Elvis Lopez (Randolph, N.J.) tied the game with a single, but Morrill worked out of further trouble.

Bloomfield reliever Raymon Sarza (Teaneck, N.J.) (2-4) set the Golden Falcons down in order in the top of the seventh. Morrill retired the first two Bears in the bottom half, but a double was sandwiched by two walks. Bloomfield freshman left fielder Jonas Espinal (Ridgefield Park, N.J.) then hit a grand slam, his second home run of the game, to end the contest, Espinal finished 2 for 3, plus two walks, with six RBI.

Andrew Florides (Glen Cove, N.Y.) drove in two runs for the Golden Falcons.

Felician hosts nationally-ranked Molloy College on Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Palisades Park.