Box Score

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team scored a season-high 25 runs in a comfortable 25-10 win over Saint Peter's on Tuesday afternoon at Jaroschak Field.
 
The Knights (11-24) hammered 19 hits in the abbreviated seven-inning game. The huge offensive outburst was led by seniors Matt McCann and Ryan Brennan, who combined to knock in nine runs in the victory.
 
McCann, who became the Knights' all-time leader in stolen bases on Sunday, notched a career-best five RBI in today's win. The senior shortstop was 2-for-4 on the afternoon with three runs and the five RBI, while Brennan went 3-for-5 with four RBI and three runs and launched his sixth home run of the season.
 
Offensive stars were aplenty for the Knights as junior third baseman Bobby Romano went 2-for-4 with four RBI and three runs and hit his team-leading eighth homer of the season. Sophomore catcher Evan McDonald and freshman center fielder Brandon Seltzer each scored four times and combined to plate five, while freshman left fielder Mike Veit was 3-for-5 with three runs and an RBI.

The Knights all but put the game out of reach in the top of the first as they batted around and scored nine runs on five hits.
 
Brennan opened the scoring with a bang by clobbering a three-run homer over the center field fence.
 
Veit, Seltzer and McCann all tallied run-scoring hits in the frame – McCann's a two-run double to right field – as the Knights provided plenty of breathing room for starter James Donlon.
 
Donlon worked three innings allowed four runs and eight hits, while striking out one.
 
In the third, the lead stretched to 14-2 thanks to Romano's three-run blast, which scored McCann and Seltzer.
 
The winless Peacocks (0-28) cut the deficit down to four, 14-10, after James Spadaccini knocked in a pair with a double, which capped a six-run, fourth inning for the home team. But the Knights responded with 11 unanswered runs over the next two innings.
 
Two damaging blows came when McCann delivered a bases-loaded, bases-clearing triple in the fifth and Hunter Reeser doubled in two in the seventh.
 
Dillon Forsythe struggled in his one inning of work but earned his first collegiate victory, while freshman Bobby Ramsey pitched three scoreless frames to capture his first career save.
 
The Knights are back in action this weekend with a crucial conference series against Wagner. The three-game series begins on Friday, May 5 at 3:00 p.m.