AUBURNDALE, Fla. (Mar. 12, 2017) - Senior Nick Daniele (Colts Neck, N.J. / Red Bank Catholic) went 2-for-4 with four RBI's, three runs scored, a triple and a double as the Centenary University baseball team earned its first victory of the season with a 14-5 defeat of UMASS-Dartmouth on Sunday evening.

Freshman Jon Fleck (Phillipsburg, N.J. / Warren Hills Regional) went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a triple for the Cyclones who improve to 1-4 overall. Taylor Cacciola went 3-for-3 with a homerun for the Corsairs who fall to 1-3 overall.

The Cyclones hot bats went to work early in the bottom of the first when Daniele, junior Kevin Sensale (Bartonsville, Pa. / Pocono Mountain East) and sophomore Ryan Jasiecki (Ledgewood, N.J. / Roxbury all drove in RBI's to put Centenary up 3-0. UMass-Dartmouth evened the game at 3-3 in the top of second with an RBI single and a two-run homer.

Centenary added two more runs in the third and fourth innings to take a 7-4 lead entering the bottom of the seventh. In the seventh,

Centenary scored seven runs on three hits along with four errors from the Corsairs defense. Depsite the errors, Daniele hit a two run RBI double to score junior John Tierney (West Milford, N.J. / West Milford) and sophomore Chase Koffel (Perkiomenville, Pa. / Perkiomen Valley), who both scored earlier in the same inning on UMD throwing errors.  

Sensale and Jasiecki both recorded two hits, while sophomore Joe Piscopo (Matawan, N.J. / Matawan), Tierney, junior Tim Maxwell (Glen Head, N.Y. / North Shore) and junior Sean Dovonan (Howell, N.J. / Howell) each tallied a hit in the victory. Sophomore Casey Brown (Easton, Pa. / Easton Area) tossed 7.0 complete innings with seven strikeouts and earned the decision.

Head Coach Scott Kushner and the Cyclones will return to action in Auburndale, Fla. on Tuesday, Mar. 14^th, against the Bears of Washington University (MO.) at 9:00 a.m.