(Brooklyn, NY) – After a thrilling doubleheader split with Old Westbury on Tuesday night, Wednesday brought with it a trip to John Jay to face one of the top teams in the CUNY Conference for the Mount Saint Vincent Baseball team. The good news was that the Mount Saint Vincent bats exploded. The Dolphins pounded out 15 hits and scored five times during their biggest offensive day since a 7-5 loss to Western Connecticut on April 6. The bad news was that the John Jay bats were hot as well, as the Bloodhounds scored 10 times on 12 hits and dropped the Mount to 12-16 for the 2006 season with a 10-5 loss.

Mount Saint Vincent opened the game scoring twice in the first inning thanks to an Al Schor (Norwalk, CT/Brien McMahon HS) single that drove home Eddie Park (Westbury, NY/Clarke HS) and Nick Canzano (Farmington, NY/Victor Central HS). Schor ended the day with two hits, as did Canzano, who also scored twice, and Park went 3 for 5 with a run scored. The lead would hold through two innings as sophomore pitcher Tony Palandro (Westbury, NY/Clarke HS) started the game on fire, as he did not allow a hit through two innings and struck out five.

However, John Jay exploded for three runs in the third inning and five more in the seventh to take a commanding 8-2 lead. The Mount battled back with two unearned runs in the eighth inning, but so did John Jay, and the despite scoring a run in the top of the ninth inning, Mount Saint Vincent fell to 1-1 against CUNY competition this season.

Eight different Dolphins registered hits on Wednesday, seven of which recorded at least two hits. However, Palandro, Marco Giasullo (Scotch Plains, NJ/Scotch Plains HS), and Nathan Todd (Holyoke, MA/Holyoke HS) combined to allow eight earned runs and 10 runs overall.

Mount Saint Vincent returns to action on Friday, April 28 when they travel to USMMA-Kings Point for a 4:30 contest.