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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – The American International College baseball team plated three runs in the bottom of the eighth to secure an 11-8 non-conference win over Nyack College Sunday afternoon to improve to 3-1 for the season. The Warriors fell to 4-3 with the loss.

The Yellow Jackets jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a two-run homerun off the bat of graduate left fielder Nick Devine (Springfield, Mass.) and tacked on five more in the second to take what appeared to be a commanding 7-0 lead.

The two teams exchanged runs in the third before Nyack pushed six runs across in the top of the fourth to pull within one, 8-7. Junior right fielder Ronald Echavarria (Bronx, N.Y.) accounted for three of those runs with a two-RBI triple and later scoring on a wild pitch. The Warriors then tied the game in the top of the seventh when Echavarria's sac-fly scored freshman left fielder Phil Erwin (New Durham, N.H.) from third.

Sophomore catcher Dan Fenton (Agawam, Mass.) gave AIC the lead for good in the bottom of the eighth with an RBI-single that scored senior first baseman Julian Concepcion (Woodstock Valley, Conn.) from second to give the Yellow Jackets a 9-7 advantage. Fenton later scored on a wild pitch and senior center fielder Dennis Duffy (Warwick, R.I.) scored on senior right fielder Kyle McNiff's (Westford, Mass.) single to cap the scoring in the game.

MacDonald finished the game 2-for-3 with two runs scored and one driven in for the Yellow Jackets, while Devine went 2-for-4 with three RBI and a run scored. Fenton was 1-for-4 on the day with two RBI and one run scored. Senior reliever Tim Bailey (Chicopee, Mass.) pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the decision.

AIC will next face Saint Thomas Aquinas College at 11 a.m. Monday before meeting the Warriors against at 5 p.m.