Baseball Downed at Dayton

Dayton's Sergio Plasencia drove in a game-high five runs, while A.J. Ryan was 4-for-5 with four RBI, as the Flyers took down the Fordham Rams, 22-10, at Woerner Field in Dayton, Ohio.
 
With the loss, Fordham falls to 22-29 overall, 13-10 in the Atlantic 10, while Dayton improved to 15-38 on the year, 4-19 in the league.  The game marked the first time that Fordham has allowed over 20 runs since April 28, 2003, when Fordham lost at Rhode Island, 28-8.
 
For the second straight day, Dayton struck first, as the Flyers took advantage of a Fordham error in the bottom of the third.  Matt Coughlin started the frame with a ground ball to third that Ian Edmiston threw high, allowing Coughlin to reach second on the throwing error.  Sergio Plasencia then singled to right to score Coughlin for the 1-0 lead.  After another single and a sacrifice bunt, Zach Schira lifted a sacrifice fly to right for a 2-0 edge.
 
Fordham quickly tied the game at two in the fourth, as the Rams loaded the bases on three straight singles by Matthew Kozuch, Charles Galiano, and Edmiston.  Ryan McNally plated Fordham's first run with a sacrifice fly to center, while Jordan Gajdos connected on an RBI-single to left to knot the game at two.
 
Dayton regained the lead in the bottom of the fourth, getting two-run singles by Plasencia and A.J. Ryan to make it a 6-2 game.
 
The Rams cut the deficit in half in the fifth, when Galiano connected on a two-run home run to left, his team-leading ninth of the season, making it, 6-4.
 
The Flyers answered big again, scoring seven times in the bottom of the fifth to extend their lead to 13-4, highlighted by another two-run single from Plasencia.

 
Fordham made it, 13-6, in the top of the seventh on RBI-singles by Edmiston and Jason Lundy, but Dayton scored nine unanswered runs to pull ahead, 22-6, by the end of the eighth.
 
The Rams put up four runs in the ninth for the 22-10 final score.  In that inning, the Rams scored on RBI-singles by Gajdos, Tim O'Connor, and Joseph DeVito, as well as an RBI-triple by Ryan Jennings.
 
Fordham starter Ben Greenberg (4-1) took the loss, allowing three earned runs on nine hits in 3.1 innings of work.
 
At the plate, Galiano was 3-for-5 with a home run, three runs scored and two RBI, while Gajdos was 3-for-4 with two RBI.  DeVito, O'Connor, and Edmiston also had two hits and one RBI apiece.
 
The rubber game of this series is set for noon on Saturday.  Fordham still controls their own destiny in regards to an Atlantic 10 playoff berth that with a win, they will advance to next week's Atlantic 10 Championship, hosted by George Washington.