PALISADES PARK, N.J.  – A seven-run first inning jump-started the Felician University baseball team to an 18-6 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference victory over visiting Nyack College on Tuesday afternoon at Overpeck County Park. Felician (11-14, 6-3 CACC) has scored 44 runs during its current three-game winning streak.

Senior shortstop Andrew Florides (Glen Cove, N.Y./Holy Cross) was 3 for 4 with a double and three RBI and junior right fielder Chris Fernandez (Boca Raton, Fla./Boca Raton Community) had a double and triple among three hits for Felician. Freshman shortstop Rocco Nappi (Pembroke Pines, Fla./Cypress Bay) was 2 for 3 with two runs scored and two RBI for the Warriors (0-11, 0-7).

Dauri Genao (West New York, N.J./Memorial) got the Golden Falcons off to a fast start with a home run leading off the first inning. Felician went on to collect six more hits and two walks during the frame, highlighted by a two-run triple from Michael Kuver (Malanapan, N.J./Manalapan) to take control. Florides added a run-scoring single in the second for an 8-0 Golden Falcon edge.

The Warriors scored three times in the third on an RBI single by Nappi and a two-run double from Alber Pichardo (Bronx, N.Y./Design and Construction Academy). But Felician put the game away with five runs on just two hits in the home half of the third to move ahead, 13-3.

Felician freshman right-hander Logan Waltz (Hazlet, N.J./Raritan) (3-2) struck out a season-high nine batters in four innings. He allowed five hits and no walks, giving up two earned runs. Nyack picked up three runs off the Golden Falcon bullpen in the fifth, but when the hosts scored five times in the sixth and kept the Warriors off the scoreboard in the seventh, the game ended on the CACC's 10-run rule.

Luis De La Cruz (Jersey City, N.J./Bergen Catholic) was 2 for 4 with three runs scored and Levis Aguila (Miramar, Fla./Hialeah Gardens) went 2 for 3 for Felician, which pounded out 16 hits and drew six walks.  Nyack leadoff man Kareem Halloway (Bellport, N.Y./Dominican College) was 2 for 4 with a double and scored twice.

Felician hosts regionally-ranked Wilmington (Del.) University in a CACC doubleheader on Friday at 11:30 a.m. in Palisades Park.