Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 Pomona, N.Y. - (4/12/2015) – Chestnut Hill College packed its bats for a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) doubleheader at Dominican College (NY) this afternoon, pounding out 13 hits and setting a season high for runs scored in a 16-6 game one slugfest. The Griffins were not so potent in the second half of the twin bill, where the Chargers overturned a fifth-inning deficit with nine unanswered runs on the road to a 10-2 decision. With the opening triumph, Chestnut Hill College matched the program record for CACC victories (12) – set last year – with four conference games remaining.
 
Chestnut Hill College (20-9, 12-4) and Dominican College (8-14, 5-5) traded three-run first innings in game one, with the Griffins' crooked number coming on the strength of an RBI single by junior catcher Robert Slagle III (Lafayette Hill, Pa.), 1-0, and a two-run triple off the bat of senior right fielder Michael McLaughlin (Philadelphia, Pa.), 3-0. Junior first baseman Carlos Lopez (Miami, Fla.) answered right back for the Chargers, smacking a three-run homer down the right-field line, 3-3. The hosts took a brief lead, 4-3, in the bottom of the third when sophomore left fielder Jonathan Martinez (Mastic Beach, N.Y.) stole home.
 
From that point on, the Griffins went wild at the plate, scoring at least two runs in each of their next five at-bats. Senior third baseman Taylor Steen (New Egypt, N.J.) brought all things even with an RBI single in the fourth, and the scarlet and gold went ahead for good when he came around on a base hit by junior Nobel Unger III (Hatboro, Pa.), 5-4. Slagle's run-scoring groundout, McLaughlin's RBI single, and an RBI double by Steen highlighted a three-run fifth, 8-4, and Slagle capped a three-run sixth with his second home run of the year, a solo shot to right center that made it 11-5. Sophomore center fielder Brandon DiBona (Southampton, Pa.) plated two more runs with a triple down the right-field line in the seventh and scored on a sacrifice fly by freshman second baseman Alec Craig (Hammonton, N.J.), 14-6, and Steen's sacrifice fly and DiBona's bases-loaded walk brought home the final two tallies, 16-6.
 
Steen and DiBona registered identical battling lines (2-for-4, two runs scored, three RBI), while Slagle and McLaughlin also collected three RBI with matching 2-for-5 efforts. Junior left fielder Joseph Monaghan (Doylestown, Pa.) scored three times and Craig two for the Griffins, who logged their highest-scoring game since 2013. Freshman Andrew Sibson (Galloway, N.J.) recovered from the rough first inning to pitch six innings for the win (3-0); he allowed six hits and five runs (three earned) with three walks and six strikeouts.

The Chargers matched their game-one output with five errors, but this time the Griffins were unable to take advantage of the miscues and made four of their own to help the home side along. Chestnut Hill College took a 2-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth thanks to a third-inning sacrifice fly and a fifth-inning grounder by junior first baseman Patrick Campion (Norristown, Pa.). But it was all downhill from there for the Griffins, as Dominican College plated three runs in the bottom of the frame and kept adding on with single runs in the sixth and seventh and a three-run outburst in the eighth to facilitate a 10-2 rout.
 
The Griffins managed just six hits and went 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position against senior starter Peter Martinez (White Plains, N.Y.), who struck out nine and walked three over eight effective innings (3-2). Unger had a single in the fifth inning and scored both Chestnut Hill College runs.
 
Chestnut Hill College next heads across town for a single game against CACC rival Philadelphia University; first pitch is scheduled for 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 16.