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TEANECK, N.J. -- The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team picked up a nonconference victory over Saint Peter's on Wednesday, 5-1, at the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex. With the victory, the Knights improve to 6-24 on the season, while the Peacocks fall to 12-20 overall.

The story of the game was the strong pitching from starter Logan Frati (Manorville, N.Y./Eastport/South Manor) (2-1). The freshman went a career-high 7.1 innings and limited Saint Peter's to one earned run on only four hits while picking up his second victory of the season. He did not issue a walk, struck out five and plunked three batters.

FDU would score all the runs it would need in the bottom of the first. With runners on second and third and one out, senior Kyle Weeks (Middle Island, N.Y./Longwood) drove home the first run with an infield single to score sophomore Ryan MacDonald (Bethpage, N.Y./Island Trees), who walked to start the inning. Freshman Dylan Sprague (Brunswick, N.Y./Averill Park) followed with an RBI sacrifice fly to right field to plate fellow classmate Joel Roman (East Hartford, Conn./East Hartford) for the second run, which gave the Knights an early 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the second, FDU scored a pair of two-out runs to extend its lead to 4-0. Sophomore Jack Loftus (Dumore, Pa./Dunmore) and MacDonald scored on sophomore Riley Moonan (Syracuse, N.Y./Cicero North)'s bloop double down the left-field line that somehow fell in between three defenders.

The Peacocks got a run back in the top of the third on an RBI groundout to cut the Knights' lead to 4-1.

The home team then capped its scoring in the bottom of the seventh when Sprague scored on freshman Ryan McGrath (Lansingburgh, N.Y./Lansingburgh)'s RBI sacrifice fly to center field to make the final score 5-1.

Six different players collected a hit for FDU, and Moonan led the way with two RBI on his double, while MacDonald scored two of five runs.

Saint Peter's starting pitcher, Jonathan Padilla, was charged with the loss in his first appearance of the season on the bump. The Knights only managed three hits off him but took advantage of six walks, three hit batters and three wild pitches over his 3.1 innings stint.

FDU will return to action this weekend when it hosts Northeast Conference-rival Monmouth in a four-game set. Game one will start on Friday, April 19 at 3 p.m. before a pair of seven-inning contests on Saturday, April 20. The series will conclude with a single contest on Sunday, April 21.