Box Score

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – The American International College baseball team committed eight errors that led to 10 unearned runs in a 14-11 Northeast-10 loss to fifth-ranked Southern Connecticut State University Wednesday afternoon at AIC Park.

The Owls improved to 21-0 for the season and 6-0 in the NE-10, while the Yellow Jackets fell to 8-12 overall and 2-4 in conference play.

Junior first baseman Ryan Geffert (Plymouth, Pa.) went 4-for-4 with a double, a triple, five RBIs and two runs scored to lead SCSU, while junior shortstop Kyle Cummings (Hamden, Conn.) was 2-for-4 with four runs scored. Senior left fielder Kyle Rosadino (Berwyn, Pa.) went 1-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored.

Senior first baseman Dillon Fontaine (Amenia, N.Y.) fell a single short of hitting for the cycle for AIC, going 3-for-4 with a double, a triple, a homerun, five RBIs and four runs scored. Senior catcher Anthony Arrichiello (Yonkers, N.Y.) went 2-for-5 with two doubles, two RBIs and two runs scored.

The Owls jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first when Geffert doubled to left to push two runs across and later scored on a error, but the Yellow Jackets had the answer with five runs in the bottom half of the frame. AIC got a pair of two-RBI doubled from Arrichiello and Fontaine, and Fontaine eventually came home on a passed ball.

After a scoreless second inning, SCSU regained the lead for good in the top of the third as four Yellow Jacket errors led to seven unearned runs. AIC got two of those runs back on Fontaine's two-run bomb to right-center in the bottom half of the frame to make it 10-7 in favor of the Owls after three.

SCSU led 13-9 heading into the bottom of the eighth before Fontaine tripled to right-center to scored Arrichiello from second and scored on Clark's single up the middle to the Yellow Jackets back within two, 13-11.

The Owls put one more on the board the next inning and then sent AIC down in order in the bottom of the ninth to hold on for the win.

The Yellow Jackets will next travel to Stonehill College Saturday for a Northeast-10 doubleheader starting at noon.