Box Score LANTANA, Fla.  – The Post University baseball bats came alive on Tuesday afternoon in a 14-7 victory over Caldwell at Santaluces High School in Lantana, Fla. The Eagles recorded 19 hits, eight for extra-bases, their most in a single game since 2011.
 
Freshman Jose Vasquez (New York, N.Y.) got things started for Post with a leadoff triple and came home to score later on an error. Senior Alex Wright (Butler, N.J.) made the score 3-0 in the first with a two-run triple.
 
Senior Don Walsh (Hamilton, N.J.), junior Tyler Pavone (River Vale, N.J.), and freshman Connor Kolich (Mahwah, N.J.) all singled with one out in the third. Wright drew a walk to extend the Eagles' lead to 4-0 before a double play ended the inning.
 
Caldwell put up four runs on three hits and two errors in the bottom of the inning to tie the game, but Post answered back with three runs in the fourth to pull ahead 7-4. Vasquez and Walsh doubled in runs and Kolich drove one home on a single.  The Eagles were able to get out a bases loaded jam in the fourth with a double play to end the threat.
 
Post put the game out of reach with five runs in the fifth. Vazquez came up big against as he doubled with the bases loaded to drive in two runs. Junior Rosario Missiti (Belmont, Mass.) followed with a two-run single to extend the lead to 11-4. Hits by Walsh and Pavone loaded the bases once again for Wright who had a base hit to make the score 12-4.
 
The Cougars added a run in the seventh and two in the eighth to close the deficit to 12-7. Sophomore Jared Zima (Berlin, Conn.) drove in the final two runs with a two-out double in the ninth.
 
Vasquez, Walsh, Pavone, Kolich, Wright, and junior John Cartagena Jr. (Danbury, Conn.) had multi-hit games.
 
Freshman Noah Meeks (Danbury, Conn.) earned his first-career victory in just a third of an inning out of the pen. Sophomore Tyler Boisvert (Prospect, Conn.) struck out six and allowed three runs in six innings of relief. Junior Brett Pisaneschi (East Quogue, N.Y.) went the first 2.2 allowing two earned runs and striking out two.
 
The Eagles return to action this afternoon with a doubleheader against #23 New Haven in Lantana, Fla. First pitch of game one set for 1 p.m.