Box Score

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped the final game of its four-game set with Wagner, 5-1, on Sunday at Richmond County Bank Ballpark. With the victory, the Seahawks win the series and improve to 8-21 (5-3 NEC) on the season, while the Knights fall to 7-18 (1-7 NEC) overall.

Wagner would score all the runs it would need in the bottom of the first on Shaun Flynn's two-run single with one out.

FDU sliced the deficit in half in the top of the third, as junior Shane Siebler (Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth Area) came around to score on sophomore Ryan Brennan (Mooresville, N.C./Mooresville)'s two-out RBI single up the middle. But the Seahawks would plate a run in the bottom half of the frame on Tommy Mazurkiewicz's two-out RBI single to right field for a 3-1 lead.

The Knights only had one base runner reach scoring position over the next five innings, before Wagner scored twice in the bottom of the eighth to clinch the victory.

FDU managed only four hits off Wagner starter Nolan Long, who tossed 7.0 innings. He allowed the one earned run, walked one and struck out three in the win.

Junior Brendan Butler (W. Sayville, N.Y./Sayville) (1-4) lasted only 2.2 innings in the loss, as he yielded three earned runs on seven hits while walking none and striking out four. Fellow classmate Ryan MacDonald (Bethpage, N.Y./Island Trees) tossed 3.0 innings of one-hit baseball to keep the Knights in the game. The southpaw walked two and struck out two, before junior Anthony Calise (Pearl River, N.Y./Pearl River) followed with 1.1 innings of scoreless relief.

Mazurkiewicz and John Lynn led the Seahawks' 12-hit attack with three safeties, while Chris Smith and Flynn each added two hits, with Flynn driving home two.

FDU will return to action on Wednesday, April 16 when it travels to West Long Branch, N.J. to face former NEC and Garden State rival Monmouth. First pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m.