PALISADES PARK, N.J. – USciences baseball scored twice in the first inning of both games, but Felician scored a total of 12 unearned runs over 14 innings en route to sweeping the Devils, 6-4 and 12-7, on Friday.   

Game One

The Devils held 2-0 and 3-2 leads, but the Golden Falcons scored an unearned run in each of its first four at-bats.  

Three straight two-out hits by Frank Pollock (single), Evan Sinclair (double) and Eddie Parry (single) led to the two runs, and after Felician scored one run in both the first and second, singles by Sinclair and Adam Estrada sandwiched a Parry hit-by-pitch for a 3-2 advantage in the third. 

This time the Golden Falcons plated two unearned runs in the bottom-half though, taking the lead for good. They added another in the fourth before finally scoring their first earned run in the fifth. 

USciences loaded the bases with one out in the sixth to put the tying run on first after an Estrada walk and singles by Hunter Parish and AJ Pena, but the Devils could only manage a Joe Duffy sacrifice fly. 

Starter Chris Brown managed a quality start, his third of the year, as only one of the six runs he surrendered was earned. 

Estrada reached base in all three of his plate appearances, adding a base on balls in the first inning, while Sinclair finished 2-for-4 with the two runs scored. 

Game Two

Parry again gave USciences a 2-0 lead with two outs in the first, as this time it was a double that scored Duffy and Pollock following their respective hit-by-pitch and single. 

Starter Ishaan Patel retired the first six hitters he faced, before two errors in the third aided Felician in scoring five unearned runs.  

The Devils came right back with five runs of their own though, on just two hits by Josh Yang (double) and Duffy (triple). The latter drove in Yang following a Pena groundout that scored Parish, who had led off with a walk. 

University of the Sciences then took advantage of five wild pitches, two walks, a hit-by-pitch and a passed ball to score the final three runs. 

The Golden Falcons recorded a second straight five-run frame though, and the Devils would not score again despite a career-high 2.1 relief innings by Eli Agostini in which he did not allow an earned run. He gave up just one hit, while striking out three.  

Duffy's first-inning run was the 106th of his career, now tied for second in program history, while his seventh career triple is now tied for fifth all-time.  

The senior went 2-for-3 with a base on balls, with his 26 walks and 46 hits now tied for third and seventh in the program's recorded single-season history (since 2005).  

Yang also reached three times, walking twice in addition to his double, while Pollock finished 2-for-3 with two runs scored. 

Up Next

USciences plays its final Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) road doubleheader at Goldey-Beacom this Sunday at 12 p.m.