Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Lantana, Fla. – (3/1/2014) – After dropping the first game of today's season-opening doubleheader at #21 Lynn University, 9-0, Chestnut Hill College took the Fighting Knights to extra innings in game two. Unfortunately, they would complete the sweep by winning the second contest 7-5 with a sacrifice fly and a two-out single platting the difference makers. The Griffins totaled five hits in the opener while junior right fielder Michael McLaughlin (Philadelphia, Pa.) forced extra innings in game-two with his fifth-inning two-run single.
 
A four-run fourth inning gave Lynn University (13-3) their initial lead in game two of today's doubleheader. But with a lead-off walk to senior centerfielder Desmond Lites (Philadelphia, Pa.), a single from sophomore designated hitter Brendan Looby (Sewell, N.J.), and a two-out Fighting Knight error, Chestnut Hill College (0-2) cut Lynn University's lead in half by the end of the frame, 4-2. The Griffins completed the rally in the fifth inning, when a lead-off single from sophomore catcher Robert Slagle III (Lafayette Hill, Pa.), a walk to junior shortstop Preston Koehler (Bath, Pa.), and a balk put two Griffins in scoring position. McLaughlin's following single would plate them both to tie the affair at 4-4 heading to the final frames. The sixth and seventh innings went without a change, but in the top of the eighth two hits, a balk, a couple beanballs, and a wild pitch brought home three Fighting Knights for a 7-4 advantage. In the bottom of the extra inning, Looby knocked in Lites with a no-out double, 7-5, but junior pitcher Bill Mendek (Blackwood, N.J.) saw to it that no more Griffins would cross the plate in his four-inning relief win (2-0). McLaughlin, Looby, and Slagle each recorded two hits for the Griffins.
 
In the opener, senior pitcher Jed Vandernaald (Garden Grove, Calif.) (5-0) held down the Griffins through the first six innings; allowing four hits and two walks while striking out three. Three Fighting Knights recorded two runs-batted-in, including senior catcher Sal Giardina Jr. (Tampa, Fla.) who went 3-for-3 in the affair.           
 
The baseball team continues their spring trip in Lantana, Florida, with a 1:00 p.m. contest against Southern New Hampshire University tomorrow, Sunday, March 2.