BOX SCORE

The baseball team finished their Fort Myers, Florida schedule on a down note on Monday morning by losing a 13-4 non-conference contest to Lakeland College of Wisconsin.

The Bearcats scored a run in each of the first and third innings to lead early, 2-0.

Alvin Mata smacked an RBI single in the first inning to drive home Richard Melendez for the first run, while Anthony Melendez hit an RBI double in the third to score Richard Melendez again.

Lakeland from the Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) took control the rest of the way by pounding out 20 hits to score the next 13 consecutive runs, including five in the fifth inning, to lead 13-2 after eight innings of play.

The Bearcats did not go quietly in the ninth inning and scored two runs via a two RBI single by Thomas Daly to finish the score at 13-4. Richard Melendez (2-for-3, three runs, two walks), John Yuksekol (2-for-4), and Mata (2-for-5) all had a solid morning at the plate.

The baseball team will return home and prepare to host three games this upcoming weekend at the SUNY-Old Westbury baseball complex against SUNY-IT on Friday (2:00 pm), Albertus Magnus of Connecticut on Saturday (1:00 pm), and SUNY-Oswego on Sunday (12:00 pm).