Box Score

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Lafayette returned to action after a seven-day hiatus at Seton Hall on Wednesday afternoon, with the Maroon and White dropping a 5-1 decision to the host Pirates.

With the extended gap between games due to the closure of campus over the weekend, the Leopards had eight different pitchers appear for an inning of work in today's contest. The first five of those pitchers each allowed a single run, and an RBI single from Andrew Landolfi in the second inning was the only time the visitors were able to get on the scoreboard.

Landolfi and Steven Cohen each went 2-for-4 to lead the offense, while Alex Woinski scored Lafayette's only run after leading off the second with a single to left field. Cohen registered his second-consecutive multi-hit game, and sixth in 10 games overall to begin 2016, to up his season average to .395.

Seton Hall (10-6) had only a small 9-7 advantage in hits, and 15 of the 16 combined base knocks were singles. The Pirates, though, had their hits come at more opportune moments en route to a sixth-consecutive victory.

Chris Chiaradio had the game's lone extra base hit with a run-scoring triple off of John Cain (0-3) in the bottom of the second, and that gave Seton Hall a 2-1 lead that it would not relinquish. Starting pitcher Zach Prendergast (3-2) worked seven effective innings for the home side, striking out five while not surrendering a walk.

Andrew Politi came on in the eighth to relief Prendergast. He struck out four of the five batters he faced, yet only recorded two outs after a pair of those strikeout victims, Landolfi and Dan Leckie, reached on a throwing error and a wild pitch, respectively. Jackson Kramer was also hit by a pitch in between that sequence to set up a bases loaded situation for the Leopards with two outs. With the tying run at the plate, however, new reliever Anthony Pacillo came on and registered the Pirates' fifth strikeout of the inning to end the threat..

Lafayette (2-8) now has two days off before beginning a stretch of five games in five days over Spring Break. The first of those contests is a neutral site tilt against Radford on Saturday. First pitch in Spartanburg, S.C., is scheduled for 2 p.m.

Notes:

Landolfi registered Lafayette's lone stolen base, and he is now 3-for-4 in stolen base attempts on the season. Seton Hall, though, swiped three bags of its own, and Leopard opponents have a 31-14 edge in stolen bases so far in 2016.

Today's game was delayed by approximately one hour in the seventh inning due to rain.