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CALDWELL, N.J. - The Caldwell College baseball team fell to Bloomfield College, 1-0 and 13-2 in a Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference doubleheader Thursday at the Kiwanis Oval. The results drop the Cougars to 4-20 overall and 1-13 in league play, while the Deacons improve to 8-18, 7-9 CACC.

In the first game, starting pitchers Robert Humes (Berlin, NJ/Winslow Twp.) and Francesco Scudiero kept both teams scoreless through six innings. In the top of the seventh, Paul Chong hit a pinch-hit triple that plated Carlos Flete to give Bloomfield a 1-0 lead. Humes retired the next two batters to leave Chong at third and keep it a one-run game. Caldwell managed a walk in the seventh and a single in the ninth but could not score a run on Scudiero, who pitched a four-hit shutout with eight strikeouts for the win.

Humes pitched seven innings and allowed one run on five hits while striking out five and walking two. Senior right-hander Nick Karalekas (Huntington Station, NY/Walt Whitman) pitched two scoreless innings in relief of Humes. Senior infielder Paul Nyitray (Cranford, NJ/St. Joseph) had two of Caldwell's four hits.

The Deacons took control of Game 2 with two runs in the first and four runs in the third to lead 6-0. The Cougars got on the scoreboard in the fifth when Nyitray hit a double to score junior Anthony Caruso (N. Babylon, NY/N. Babylon) from first. After Bloomfield scored a run in the top of the sixth, Caldwell loaded the bases for Caruso, who singled to bring home junior Dominick Mangarella (East Brunswick, NJ/Bishop Ahr). But the Deacons avoided a big inning by getting a double play to end the threat. The Cougars were unable to generate any more offense, as Bloomfield scored again in the seventh and added five runs in the ninth.

Lucas Junger held Caldwell to two runs on four hits while fanning seven in six innings of work for the win. Junior Lucas Willenbrock (Amityville, NY/Amityville Memorial) pitched 2 1/3 innings of scoreless relief with two strikeouts for the Cougars.

Caldwell plays a non-conference game at St. Thomas Aquinas College on Tuesday, Apr. 22 in Sparkill, N.Y.