The St. Thomas Aquinas College baseball team fell to a 4-1 defeat in an East Coast Conference road contest against Molloy College. Stanley Susana's first inning single was his 222nd career hit, setting a new STAC record but it was not enough to prevent his team from falling to 5-5-1 overall, 2-1 in ECC play, with Molloy ending the day at 6-9, 1-2.

After tying the hits record held by current STAC pitching coach John Muller in Sunday's second game, Susana wasted no time in swinging his was into the record books. The ECC Player-of-the-Week stroked a two-out, first inning single to set the new standard. The Spartans would load the bases but come up empty in that frame, which would have an impact on the rest of the afternoon.

Molloy scratched out a run in the second and two more in the fourth off STAC starter John Bednarek, while Lions hurler Bobby Kelly kept the Spartans largely in check. St. Thomas Aquinas plated a run in the sixth on Brandon Fischer's two-out RBI single to make the score 3-1, but STAC would strand the tying runs in scoring position.

A seventh-inning insurance tally would give the hosts a 4-1 lead, and though STAC put the first two batters on in the ninth against closer Sean Gordon, that was as close as they would get, with the Spartans stranding 12 baserunners on the afternoon. Fischer and Joseph Pena had a pair of hits each for the Spartans, while Bednarek dropped to 1-2 with the loss.

The second game of that scheduled double-header was postponed but will now be played today, Tuesday, March 24, at Mitchel Field in Uniondale. Though it is a single game, because it was originally scheduled as the back end of a double-header, the game is slated for seven innings.

Also please note that Wednesday's game against Nyack College will be played at Dutchess Stadium in Fishkill, NY, with first pitch set for 3:30 pm.