Box Score

TEANECK, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped its series opener with Bryant on Friday afternoon at the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex.  The Knights (13-13, 4-4 NEC) fell by a score of 6-2 to the Bulldogs (18-5, 7-0 NEC).  The teams will play a doubleheader on Saturday beginning at 11 a.m.

The Bulldogs scored a single run in the first and then added two in the fourth and one in the fifth off FDU starter Joe Flack (Staten Island, N.Y./St. Peter's Boys).

Freshman Tim Quinn (Farmingville, N.Y./Sachem East) came out of the bullpen to work out of trouble in the fifth inning and then pitched a scoreless sixth and seventh.  He surrendered a single run in the eight and closed out his performance with a scoreless ninth inning.

Quinn pitched 4.2 innings and limited the Bulldogs to one run on four hits and two walks.  He walked two and struck out one.

Sophomore James Karinchak earned the victory for Bryant with one run over six innings.  He improved to 6-1 on the season with the victory.

Flack takes the loss and falls to 0-3.

Offensively, the Knights were hitless until sophomore Jason Fatzinger (Macungie, Pa./Emmaus) ripped a double to left field in the fifth.

The following inning FDU would get on the board on an RBI double by redshirt junior Ryan Brennan (Mooresville, N.C./Mooresville).  Brennan lined an opposite field double in the gap to score junior Matt McCann (West Windsor, N.J./West Windsor-Plainsboro ) who started the rally by beating out an infield single.

FDU added its second run of the game in the seventh as McCann delivered a two-out single to drive in senior Shane Siebler (Nazareth, Pa./Nazareth Area).
Matt Albanese hit a home run and Buck McCarthy drove in three runs for the Bulldogs.

McCann finished with two hits in three at bats.  He drove in a run, scored a run and picked up his 21^st stolen base of the season.

FDU finished with two runs on five hits and the Bulldogs scored six runs on 10 hits.

The series will continue with a doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m. on Saturday and conclude with a single game on Sunday.