BOX SCORE 1 | BOX SCORE 2 GARDEN CITY, N.Y. – The University of New Haven baseball team completed its regular season with a Northeast-10 Southwest Division sweep of host Adelphi by scores of 10-4 and 15-8. The Chargers clinched the second seed in the Southwest and will host an NE-10 First Round game on Wednesday, May 7.
 
Following the sweep, New Haven improves to 22-11 on the season, 17-9 in the Northeast-10 and 12-6 in the Southwest Division. Adelphi heads to the postseason with a record of 21-21 overall, 14-12 in the NE-10 and 9-9 in the Southwest.
 
Kyle Cullen (Dumont, N.J./Dumont) led the Chargers' offensively on the day with six runs batted in as part of a 5-for-8 performance. The junior left fielder added two doubles and his second home run of the spring. Brendan O'Reilly had five RBI in the twinbill, including a three-run homer in the nightcap. Zach Collett (Westbrook, Maine/Westbrook) and Tom Walraven (Pine Bush, N.Y./Pine Bush) each drove in three runs with five hits apiece. O'Reilly and Brendon Buckley (Monroe, Conn./Masuk) each swiped a base.
 
John Melville (Ulster Park, N.Y./Kingston) took the ball in game one to earn the win. The right-hander scattered two earned runs on five hits and one walk in 7.2 innings of work. Melville (4-2) struck out seven Panthers en route to victory.
 
Five pitchers combined on the effort in the second game. Brian Caselli (Stratford, Conn./Stratford) was the first out of the bullpen and registered his first career victory.
 
Game 1
Adelphi manufactured the game's first run in the third inning. Eric Hassell led off with a bloop single, moved over on two productive outs and came home on a Cliff Brantley RBI base-knock.
 
The Panthers' advantage was short-lived, as Collett led off the top of the fourth frame with a home run over the wall in left centerfield. His third roundtripper of the season evened the score at 1-1.
 
The Chargers broke the game open with five runs in the top of the sixth frame. TJ Riccio (Port Jeff Station, N.Y./Comsewogue) doubled to drive in a run, and Eddie Tammaro (South Hempstead, N.Y./South Side) smacked an RBI single. Walraven drove in a pair in the stanza, and Andrew Johnson (Branford, Conn./Branford / Wheaton) completed the five-run with an RBI double. New Haven sent 10 batters to the plate in the inning.
 
An RBI single from Cullen tacked on an insurance run in the top of the seventh, running the lead to 7-1.
 
Adelphi plated three in the home half of the eighth inning, cutting the margin to 7-4 before Joey Royer (Westbrook, Maine/Cheverus) came out of the bullpen and struck out the only batter he faced to put out the fire.
 
New Haven broke the game open once again in the top of the ninth inning with an RBI double for Riccio and a Cullen two-run homer. Frank Vilacha (Dartmouth, Mass./Dartmouth) fired a hitless and scoreless ninth inning to preserve the victory at 10-4.
 
Riccio went 4-for-5 with two RBI in the opener. Cullen drove in three runs as a part of a 2-for-4 showing, and Walraven went 3-for-5 from the leadoff spot with two RBI.
 
Game 2
The Chargers got on the board in the top of the second inning. Buckley led off with a walk and then stole second. After Collett singled to put runners on the corners, O'Reilly launched a three-run bomb – his first of the season – to stake New Haven to a 3-0 advantage.
 
After Adelphi took a lead with two runs in both the second and third innings and a single tally in the fourth, the Chargers surged in front with 10 runs over the next two frames. In the top of the fifth, Walraven, Collett and O'Reilly each drove in a run with a single, and #Cullen pushed a run across with a sacrifice fly. (Merrick, N.Y./St. Dominic)Jason Lewicki# delivered the biggest shot of the inning with a two-run triple to push the New Haven lead to 9-5.
 
The offense kept clicking in the sixth with another Collett RBI knock, a two-run error and a Cullen RBI double.
 
The Panthers cut the lead to 13-8 with three runs in the home half of the sixth but climbed no closer. The Blue and Gold put the game away with single runs in the eighth and ninth. An eighth-inning double from Cullen and a DeMorais RBI groundout in the ninth capped the 15-8 final.
 
O'Reilly drove in five runs in the nightcap, while Cullen knocked in three as part of a 3-for-4 showing. Collett went 3-for-5 with two RBI and two runs scored, and Johnson also added three hits.
 
Connor Moriarty (Branford, Conn./Branford) worked the first four innings on the bump. After Caselli's two innings of work to claim the victory, Taylor Hughes (Nantucket, Mass./Nantucket / Bridgton Academy), Vilacha and Buckley each posted a zero in hitless fashion to complete the effort.
 
Details surrounding the Chargers' NE-10 First Round game on Wednesday, May 7 will be available on NewHavenChargers.com as they are announced by the conference office.