Caldwell, N.J. -  Sophomore Joey Picone (Washingtonville, N.Y.) was 3-for-4 with an RBI as the Post University baseball team won the second game of a doubleheader against Caldwell on Thursday in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference tilt.

The Eagles now stand at 9-12 overall and 5-3 in the CACC.

Sophomore Evan Devico (Waterbury, Conn.) was great on the mound, giving up just one run on eight hits and a walk while striking out seven.

The two teams swapped a run in the second inning as Picone singled to score senior Dylan Pastor (Hewlett, N.Y.) in the top half of the inning. In the bottom half, Paul Marinello's double scored William Levier to tie the game, 1-1.

Post would break the tie in the sixth, as freshman Brendon Emigholz (West Islip, N.Y.) singled to score Pastor, who reached on an error.

Redshirt freshman Luke Leonardi (Holbrook, N.Y.) would give the Eagles an insurance run in the top of the eighth, as he ripped a double down the line that scored Picone. Picone had reached on a single earlier in the inning. Post added one more as a throwing error from shortstop XYZ off of the bat of Emigholz scored Leonardi, giving the Eagles the 4-1 lead.

Freshman Nick Arnold (West Islip, N.Y.) pitched two innings of perfect relief for the save.

Game One

In game one, grad student Zach Batchelor (Monroe Township, N.J.) was on the wrong end of an epic pitchers' duel as the Eagles dropped a 2-1 game in ten innings.

Batchelor pitched 9.1 innings, giving up two runs and seven hits while striking out ten and walking none.

Batchelor and Caldwell starter Robert Humes kept the bats silent until the top of the eighth, when Pastor homered to left to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead. 

The Cougars would answer in the ninth with an RBI single from William Levier to tie the game, 1-1. Both teams would go down in order in the ninth inning.

In the bottom of the tenth, however, the Cougars got three straight hits, including a single from Paul Marinello that scored Kevin Goldman for the winning.