Naugatuck, Conn. – Senior Erik Rodriguez (Miami, Fla.) had the rare distinction of playing all nine positions in a game, but the Post University baseball team dropped an out-of-conference game to Southern Connecticut State University, 11-1 on Monday evening at Naugatuck High School.
 
Rodriguez started the game playing left field and moved around the outfield for the first three innings, and the infield in innings four through eight, and capping his night off on the mound where he pitched one inning and struck out a batter in his final home game of his career.
 
After falling behind 1-0 in the top of the second, Post (13-28, 7-11 Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference) answered in the bottom half of the inning on an RBI single from junior Nick Grasso (Wyckoff, N.J.) to tie the game, 1-1.
 
It would be all the Eagles mustered offensively as the Owls scored two runs in the third on RBI singles by Jake Lieberm and Jake Paul to make it a 3-1 game. Paul would put the game out of reach in the top of the fifth as his three-run homer to right center field highlighted a five-run fifth inning for the Owls who took an 8-1 lead in the inning.
 
Sophomore Maxime Robillard (Blainville, Quebec) finished the game going 2-for-3 and a walk. Rodriguez was 1-for-4 with a run scored and Grasso was 1-for-3 with an RBI.
 
Starting sophomore Mike Calo (Watertown, Conn.) went 4.1 innings, giving up eight runs – six earned – on 12 hits and a walk. He struck out four. In relief, sophomore Ben Brown (Middlebury, Conn.) struck out two, freshman Mike Munson (Plainville, Conn.) struck out one and senior Ethan Szabo (Bridgeport, Conn.) struck out two.
 
Oaul was 3-for-5 with four RBI and two runs scored to lead the Owls. Lieberm also drove in four runs for SCSU (11-22-1).
 
Up next for the Post is its final two games of the regular season as it takes on Philadelphia on the road on April 30 in a CACC doubleheader beginning at noon.