The St. Thomas Aquinas College baseball team's winning streak was snapped at six games after a 11-6 loss to Dominican College at Provident Bank Park. Ken Kirshner's three-run homer and four RBI was not enough for the Spartans who fell to 22-11 overall, with Dominican improving to 19-12.

Despite having won 10 of their last 11 games at home, their familiar turf was not friendly as the Spartans fell into an early hole. The Chargers added two hits to three walks served up by starter Nick May, pushing across four runs in the top of the first. That would be May's lone inning of work as the Spartans employed "bullpen by committee" for the non-league contest.

Two innings later, the visitors would rough up Kevin Rentas for three runs on three hits, putting Dominican in a comfortable 7-0 lead through three. STAC showed signs of life in the fourth with an error and a walk preceding Kirshner's three-run blast into the porch area in right. They would draw within 7-4 one inning later, with Kirshner's RBI single plating Frank Salerno.

That would prove to be as close as the Spartans would get, with Dominican answering with three in the sixth and another in the seventh to reestablish their comfortable margin. The contest was relatively well in hand by the time Andrew Romanella and Derek Hirsch picked up RBIs in the last of the eighth, and the Spartans went quietly in a scoreless ninth.

May took the loss to fall to 1-2 as seven STAC hurlers combined to allow 13 Charger hits. Kirshner went 3-for-4 to lead the Spartans, with Hirsch and Stephen Sunday adding two hits each.

St. Thomas Aquinas returns to action Friday to start a big four-game East Coast Conference series against LIU-Post. On Friday, the Spartans travel to Long Island, Saturday they host an 11:00 am twin-bill at Provident Bank Park, and move back to the Island for the finale Sunday.