TEANECK, N.J. – The Fairleigh Dickinson baseball team dropped game two of its series with Wagner 14-5 at the Naimoli Family Baseball Complex on Friday afternoon. With the loss, the Knights (15-36-1, 9-13 NEC) are officially eliminated from NEC postseason contention.
 
Redshirt freshman Adam Frank and sophomore Tony Socci each homered on the day, which gives the Knights a program-record 59 total home runs this season. The 59 home runs eclipses the previous single-season mark of 57, which was set by the 1986 Knights.
 
Frank finished 2-for-4 with two RBI and a run scored, while fellow freshman Salvatore Monticciolo went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Socci tallied three RBI in the loss – two of which came via his fifth homer of the campaign.
 
Neil Abbatiello (2-5) took the ball for the Seahawks (17-30, 10-13 NEC) and provided his team eight solid innings of work as he recorded 10 strikeouts and allowed three earned runs on four hits. Abbatiello carried a perfect game into the fifth inning before Monticciolo blooped a double on the left field line.
 
Aided by some shaky FDU defense, the Seahawks struck for three runs in the first inning on two hits. A leadoff error, stolen base and a soft groundball resulted in the first run. Tyler Sanfilippo pulled into third with a triple after his line drive to left bounced past a diving Socci for the team's second run and then he walked home on a balk by FDU starter James Donlon.
 
Donlon (1-5) lasted 2.1 innings and was charged with one earned run on four hits. Five of the six tallies against the FDU right-hander were unearned as the Knights committed five errors in the loss.
 
The Seahawks extended their lead to 6-0 with three runs on two hits and two FDU errors in the third inning. Trailing 7-0 in the fifth, the Knights got on the board with an RBI groundout by Socci. Socci knocked in Monticciolo whose double served as the Knights' first hit.
 
Three runs on three hits including an RBI double by Joe Silvestrone helped the Seahawks enhance their cushion to 10-1 after seven and they would tack on three more in the eighth thanks in part to a two-run triple by Freddy Sabido. Sabido finished with five RBI, four runs scored and hit his second home run in as many days.
 
Facing a 13-1 deficit in the home eighth, Socci clubbed his fifth homer of the season -- a no-doubter, which landed well-beyond the left-field fence. Then in the ninth,  Monticciolo led off with his second double of the game and jogged home after Frank unloaded a two-run blast over the center-field fence. Frank's homer would result in the Knights' final runs of the game.
 
The Knights close out the 2019 season tomorrow with first pitch set for 1:00 p.m. Prior to first pitch, the team will honors its three seniors Dillon Forsythe, Evan McDonald and Bobby Romano.