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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped a pair of games to Wagner on Friday afternoon at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.  The Knights fall to 19-23 overall and 9-12 in Northeast Conference play, while the Seahawks improve to 13-26 and 8-14.

GAME ONE
The Knights fell behind 6-1 by the fifth inning and attempted a comeback, but it fell short and FDU fell 6-3 in the opening game of the four game series.

Down 2-0, redshirt junior Ryan Brennan (Mooresville, N.C./Mooresville) stepped to the plate in the top of the second inning and belted a solo home run to left to cut the deficit to a single run.  However, Wagner added two runs in the fifth and two in the sixth to go in front 6-1.

In the top of the seventh, freshman Evan McDonald (Circleville, Ohio/Logan Elm) launched a homer to make it a 6-2 game and senior Patrick McClure (Fayetteville, N.Y./Fayetteville-Manlius ) singled up the middle to plate FDU's third run in the top of the eighth.

Later in the eighth, the Knights loaded the bases with one out, but Wagner turned a double play to get out of the inning.

The Seahawks preserved the win with a scoreless ninth.

Freshman Tim Quinn (Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East) pitched 6.2 innings and allowed six runs, four earned, on eight hits.  He falls to 3-2 on the season with the loss.

Austin Goeke picked up the win for Wagner with seven innings of work.  He improves to 4-3 on the year.

The home run was the fourth of the year for Brennan.  McDonald's homer was his second.
 
GAME TWO
Freshman Chris Kachmar (East Greenville, Pa./Upper Perkiomen) locked into a pitcher's duel with Wagner's Mike Adams, but the Seahawks finally broke through with three runs in the bottom of the fifth inning in the eventual 7-0 victory.

Kachmar limited Wagner to just two hits over the first four innings, but the Seahawks strung together three hits and two walks to plate their runs in the fifth.

Kachmar falls to 5-2 with the loss.  He pitched five innings and allowed three runs, on five hits and five walks.

Adams held the Knights hitless until a pair of fifth inning singles, but he worked out of trouble in that inning and then pitched a one-two-three sixth and a scoreless seventh.

Adams improves to 2-5 on the year with the complete game shutout.

McClure had two of FDU's three hits in the game.
 
The series will continue with a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 1 p.m.