Palm Beach, Fla. - The St. Thomas Aquinas College Baseball kicked off its seven game Florida Spring Break tour, falling to Stonehill College 7-3 on Thursday night at the Santaluches Sports Complex.

STAC drops to 3-8, while Stonehill improves to 5-7 on the season.

How it Happened

• A scoreless pitcher's duel for the first four and a half innings, St. Thomas Aquinas would break the stalemate in the bottom of the fifth.
• Gregory DiGiaro's bases loaded two RBI single, brought home teammates Andrew Jemison and Sean Lynch to make it 2-0 in favor of the Spartans.
• STAC starter Aaron Dona was spectacular in his third start of the season, hurling seven shutout innings, while only allowing a hit and walking two. He also sent down 12 Skyhawks batters via strikeout.
• However, Stonehill rallied for seven runs in the eighth off of the bullpen, as Conor Kiely fielder's choice with the bases loaded and a subsequent error, opened the door for the Skyhawks first run of the evening.
• A Matt Farragher single, Noah Lucier triple and Blaine Lidsky double pushed five more runs across home plate to extend the Stonehill lead to 6-2.
• The final run for the Skyhawks came courtesy of a double steal by Blaine Lidsky and Trey Ciulla-Hall, with Ciulla-Hall coming home to make it 7-2.
• St. Thomas Aquinas attempted to rally late, as Matthew Johnson stroked an two-out RBI double, bringing C.J. Cumbo around to score, closing the deficit to four at 7-3.
• In the ninth, the Spartans went down one, two, three on a strikeout, pop-up and ground out, giving Stonehill the four-run victory.

Top STAC Performances

• Kyle Lagrutta picked up two hits in four at-bats, also drawing a walk.
• Gregory DiGiaro went 1-for-5 with two RBI on the evening.
• Andrew Guerra and Matthew Johnson (double) also recorded hits for the Spartans.
• Aaron Dona (No-Decision) - 7.0 innings, 1 Hit, 0 Runs, 2 Walks, 12 Strikeouts.
• Yanni Orfanidis, Justin Baeyens and Orin Winslow combined to surrender seven hits and seven runs (six earned), while walking one and fanning three over the final two innings. Baeyens picked up the loss, with his record moving to 0-1.

Next Game

St. Thomas Aquinas gets right back to action on Friday night (7:00 p.m), taking on Felician University in Florida.