WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Sophomore Brandon Scalisi (New City, N.Y.) scattered four hits over seven innings, graduate Waldy Arias (Plainfield, N.J.) had three hits, two runs scored and two RBI and junior Noah Putney (Glassboro, N.J.) drilled his third home run of the season, pacing Caldwell baseball to a 9-2 win over American International (5-7) in the final game of its spring Florida trip.

The Cougars (6-5) took a 3-2 lead in the top of the fifth on a two-out double by junior Zach Saunders (Adelphi, Md.) scoring soph Liam Lombardi (Stony Point, N.Y.) all the way from first. Scalisi rolled off two more scoreless innings before the Cougars broke it open in the seventh on an Arias double, Saunders sacrifice fly and passed ball. Arias's RBI double plated an insurance run in the eighth, and RBI by soph Santo Anzalone (MIddle Village, N.Y.) and Michael Cruz (Miami) padded the lead.

Scalisi permitted just two runs and struck out 10, and freshman John Rigas (Lincoln Park, N.J.) fired two hitless frames, fanning four, to send the Cougars back north on a winning note.

Lombardi and Putney had two hits each to pace CU's 12-hit attack. 

The Cougars are back in action on Tuesday at Kutztown in a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.