SPRINGFIELD, Massachusetts - The American International College baseball team took three of four from Pace University in Northeast 10 Conference play at Richard F. Bedard Field, splitting 16-5 and 12-2 on Saturday, April 11 and sweeping 7-6 and 11-4 on Sunday, April 12.

AIC is now 13-21 with a 9-13 NE10 record.

The third inning of game one was an offensive explosion. Pace used three walks and three hits, including a double, to score four runs and take a 4-0 lead. AIC answered back and then some, as Josh Frometa walked and then both Yeudy Ramirez and AJ Quinn singled to pack the bags. Leandro Guevara drove Frometa home with a sacrifice fly, and then after a Wesley Alfonso walk, Cole Patterson singled to score Quinn and Ramirez. Alex Dye re-loaded the bases with an infield hit and Sam Tanous walked to force the tying run in.

AIC kept rolling, as Aidan Streeter was hit by a pitch, forcing Patterson home and giving AIC the lead. Frometa then hit a bouncer to short, and while the Setters were able to get Streeter at second, the attempt to turn two was flung away, scoring both Tanous and Dye. Ramirez then singled to bring Frometa home and give AIC an 8-4 lead.

Pace put a single run on the board in the fourth, but the Yellow Jackets put their offense down from there, and piled on its own. A Quinn single, an error on a Guevara grounder, and an Alfonso walk loaded the bases for Patterson, who took four straight misses to drive in a run without using his bat. A later Tanous sacrifice fly and a Streeter RBI single made the score 11-5.

The seventh was much the same story; Frometa walked, Ramirez singled, and Quinn did too. Guevara, Alfonso, and Dye each drew bases-loaded walks, while Tanous was hit by a pitch to push a run in, and Streeter capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly for the 16-5 final.

If game one was all AIC, the second game was equally in control of the defending NE10 champions, who scored three in the first, one each in the third and fourth, and then four in the sixth and three in the seventh. AIC's only two runs came in the sixth, with Guevara smacking an RBI double and scoring on an Alfonso single.

Pace came out firing in the Sunday opener as well, striking for a two-run double and a sacrifice fly for a 3-0 lead before AIC could get to the plate. AIC notched a run in the second with a Frometa RBI single, and the teams traded runs in the fifth as well; AIC's came on a Cole Patterson solo shot.

The Setters seemed to put the game away in the sixth, scoring twice to expand the lead to 6-2. However, AIC rallied, with Streeter, Frometa, and Ramirez all walking before Quinn singled a run home. Guevara walked for another RBI, and Alfonso tied the game with a two-run single. Patterson was then plunked to load the bases, and Guevara ultimately scored from third on a wild pitch with what ended up being the deciding run.

In the finale, AIC struck first on an RBI single by Guevara, but Pace tied it in the top of the second with an RBI groundout, and took the lead on a solo shot in the fourth. Guevara answered that with a longball of his own in the fifth, and Dye put AIC ahead with an RBI single later that frame.

The Yellow Jackets then ran off with the game in the sixth and seventh, with four runs in each half-inning; Guevara scored a run with a bases-loaded walk, Ramirez scored on a wild pitch, and Dye drove in two with a hit in the sixth, while Peyton Torre notched an RBI infield single, Guevara hit a sac fly, and Alfonso and Patterson hit back-to-back RBI doubles.

Pace did score two in the eighth, leaving the 11-4 final.

AIC returns to action with a single game at Bedard Field on Wednesday, April 15 at 3:30 p.m. against Southern Connecticut State University.