BOX SCORE BROOKHAVEN, N.Y. – Chris DeMorais (West Hartford, Conn./Conard) and Brendan O'Reilly each pounded three hits, and a combination of three pitchers scattered singles as the University of New Haven baseball team rolled to a 15-1 victory at Dowling on Tuesday afternoon. Frank Vilacha (Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth) started on the bump and allowed just one hit through his five frames of work.

With the win, New Haven improves to 2-0 on the young season. The Chargers have racked up 27 runs on 36 hits through the first two outings of the spring. The Golden Lions, who split a four-game set with defending East Region Champion Franklin Pierce over the weekend, drop to 7-5.
 
DeMorais went 3-for-4 with a double, three RBI and one run scored while O'Reilly was 3-for-6 with a triple, three RBI, two runs scored and a stolen base. Andrew Johnson (Branford, Conn./Branford / Wheaton) added four hits with a RBI and his first stolen bag of the season.
 
Jason Lewicki (Milford, Conn./Foran) and Tom Walraven (Pine Bush, N.Y./Pine Bush) each knocked in two runs, and an RBI apiece went to Nick Nunziato (Setauket, N.Y./Ward Melville) and Brendon Buckley (Monroe, Conn./Masuk). In the late innings, Eddie Tammaro (South Hempstead, N.Y./South Side) and Robert Petrillo Jr. (Branford, Conn./Branford) each picked up the first RBI of their respective careers, while Tammaro and Carl Arnold (Shirley, N.Y./William Floyd) notching their first hits as a Charger.
 
Vilacha allowed one single, one walk and hit a batter in his five scoreless frames. The senior right-hander faced just one batter over the minimum as a double play and a pickoff took care of two of three baserunners he allowed. Vilacha struck out two batters en route to his first win of the spring.

Joey Royer (Westbrook, Maine/Cheverus) worked three innings, ceding one run on three hits while striking out three. Buckley moved from the hot corner to the mound to fire a hitless ninth in his first pitching appearance since 2011.
 
Right-hander Tyler Hardison started for Dowling and was saddled with the loss. He surrendered six earned runs on six hits and three walks with three strikeouts.
 
The Chargers jumped out to an early lead in the top of the first inning. O'Reilly led off the game with a single, stole second and took third on a wild pitch. The centerfielder raced home the final 90 feet on a Johnson infield hit to stake New Haven to a 1-0 cushion. The Blue and Gold would add another tally in the third stanza on a Buckley walk, Johnson single and DeMorais RBI base-knock.
 
A four-run fourth inning broke the game open, started by one-out walks to Nunziato and Walraven. O'Reilly followed with a triple to centerfield to plate both baserunners and then came home on a Buckley sacrifice fly. With two down and the bases now empty, the Chargers extended their lead to 6-0 on a Johnson base hit and stolen bag followed by an RBI double off the bat of DeMorais. New Haven continued to pour it on in the fifth with a Nunziato double and O'Reilly RBI single.
 
Johnson then led off the sixth with a triple and scored on DeMorais' third RBI knock of the game as the margin ran to 8-0. The Charges tacked on three more in the frame on Lewicki's RBI double, a run-scoring triple blasted by Nunziato and a Walraven RBI single.
 
Another four-run inning followed in the seventh with RBI singles from Tammaro and Lewicki and bases-loaded walks drawn by Petrillo and Walraven to cap the Chargers' scoring at 15-0.
 
The Golden Lions broke up the shutout with an RBI single in the eighth before Buckley came on to complete the 15-1 triumph.
 
The Chargers will now embark on a five-game swing at the USA Baseball National Training Complex in Cary, N.C. before opening the home and Northeast-10 slates with a noon doubleheader on Saturday, March 22 against Assumption. The twin bill with the Greyhounds begins an eight-game homestand at Frank Vieira Field.