GARDEN CITY, N.Y. - Sophomore Jerry Guzman (Valley Cottage, N.Y./Brunswick School) hit a three-run walk-off double in the bottom of the 10th inning of the second half of a Northeast 10 Conference doubleheader on Sunday, lifting the Saint Michael's College baseball team over Adelphi University, 11-10. The Purple Knights played the home team at William J. Bonomo Memorial Field after the four-game weekend series was moved from Colchester, Vt. The Panthers won the opener, 8-5 in seven innings.
 
During the second contest, senior Sam Cavossa (East Falmouth, Mass./The Winchendon School) became the program's career hit king, breaking Alec Tice's '14 12-year-old school record.
 
RECORDS

• Saint Michael's (8-13, 6-6 NE10), Adelphi (11-10, 7-5 NE10)

DOUBLEHEADER FACTS

• Saint Michael's overcame four deficits to capture the nightcap, when Guzman came through with his second career walk-off hit, which also delivered himself the pitching victory.
• Cavossa finished the weekend 148 career hits, eclipsing Tice's mark of 146. He also moved into a tie for fifth in program annals in career RBI (70) with Evan Grenier '08.
• Junior Jack Pattison (Vernon, Vt./Vermont Academy) was hit by three pitches in the nightcap to come within one of both the season and career program records. With 16 plunks this year, he trails only Lenin Gomez '20, who was hit 17 times in 2019. Steven Auger '17 owns the career mark of 25, with Pattison at 24.
• Junior Richard Gilboy (South Portland, Maine/South Portland) is now tied for ninth in program history with 66 career RBI, matching Kevin Koscso '06 and George Buteau '15.
• Senior Keegan Burke (Amherst, N.H./Souhegan) moved into 13th in program history in career strikeouts (128), passing Rob Russo '92 (126) and Dustin Whitney '99 (126).

GAME 1
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Cavossa, 1-for-1, R, 2 BB
• Gilboy, 1-for-3, R, RBI, 2B
• Guzman, 1-for-2, R, RBI, BB, HR
• Senior Jack Weber (Milford, Conn./Notre Dame), 0-for-1, 2 BB
• First-year Gavin Nichols (Swanton, Vt./Missisquoi Valley Union), 4.2 IP, 7 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 4 K, loss

OPPONENT LEADERS

• Junior Bryan McCleary, 1-for-4, R, 3 RBI, HR
• Junior Michael Robinson, 2-for-4, 2 R, 2 RBI, 2B, HR
• First-year Zach DeMilt, 2-for-5, 2 R, SB
• Sophomore Ari Gluck, 6 IP, 5 H 5 R, 3 ER, 4 BB, 3 K, win

THE ACTION

• Junior Evan Carway walked with the bases loaded in the top of the first inning before Guzman drilled his second home run of the season to tie the game in the second.
• Robinson responded with a solo shot in the third, and McCleary's two-run dinger sparked a three-run fifth.
• Robinson hit an RBI ground-rule double amid a three-run sixth that pushed the lead to 8-1.
• Saint Michael's rallied in the bottom of the seventh, when Gilboy ripped an RBI double to kick off a four-run frame. The Purple Knights ended up bringing the tying run to the plate, but the final batter fanned.

GAME 2
SAINT MICHAEL'S LEADERS

• Cavossa, 2-for-6, R, RBI, SB
• Gilboy, 3-for-6, 3 R, RBI, 2B
• Guzman, 2-for-5, 4 RBI, 2B, HP; 2 IP, 1 H, 2 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 3 K in relief, win
• Pattison, 0-for-2, R, 3 HP
• Weber, 1-for-2, R, 3 BB
• Junior Josh Ayala (San Diego, Calif./Alexandria City/West Virginia Wesleyan), 3-for-5, 2 R, 2 RBI, HR, SB
• Junior Colin Kinsella (Winthrop, Mass./Winthrop), 1-for-3, R, RBI, 3B
• First-year Gage Spagna (Nottingham, N.H./Lovell Academy), 1-for-3, 2 RBI, SAC, HP
• Burke, 5.2 IP, 10 H, 5 R, 5 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, no-decision

OPPONENT LEADERS

• DeMilt, 3-for-6, 3 R, 2 RBI
• Robinson, 2-for-5, 3 RBI, 2B, SF
• Senior Albert Ramos, 2-for-6, 3 RBI
• Junior Anthony Rigogliosi, 4-for-5, 3 R
• Sophomore Matthew Curto, 0+ IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 0 K in relief, loss

THE ACTION

• Ayala blasted his second career home run - and first as a Purple Knight - to open the scoring in the second before Adelphi hit only two balls out of the infield while scoring three runs in the third.
• Spagna's two-run single through the box tied the game in the fourth, and Guzman's RBI single scored Gilboy to make it 4-3 in the home half of the fifth.
• DeMilt tied the game with an RBI single in the sixth before McCleary walked with the bases loaded, but Kinsella cracked a pinch-hit RBI triple to tie the game in the home half before scoring on Cavossa's RBI single through the left side, his program-record 147th hit.
• Adelphi countered with three runs with two down in the eighth, going ahead 8-6 thanks to Robinson's two-run single and Ramos' RBI knock.
• With two out in the home half, Gilboy came through with an RBI single before scoring on Ayala's RBI single.
• Following a pair of errors and two ensuing outs, Ramos dumped a two-run single into right center in the top of the 10th to give the Panthers a 10-8 lead.
• In the home half, the first two batters reached before Gilboy put down an intended sacrifice bunt but reached on the single when no one covered first base. With none out and the bases juiced, Guzman cracked his walk-off double to the gap in left field, with Gilboy scoring the winning run after dashing from first base.

NEXT SAINT MICHAEL'S GAME

• Tuesday at Franklin Pierce University, 3:30 p.m.