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ALBANY, N.Y. - The Southern New Hampshire University baseball team nearly rallied from an 8-1 deficit, but fell 8-7 to The College of Saint Rose in a Northeast-10 contest Monday afternoon at Bleecker Stadium.  The Golden Knights, who won their third in a row over the Penmen and their fifth straight overall, improve to 6-13 and 4-0 in the NE-10, while the Penmen are 2-9 and 0-3 in the league.

Tim Rines (Northfield, NH) and Bill Murray (Canton, MA) each finished with three hits for Southern New Hampshire, while Skyler Byrd (Milford, NH) was 2-5 at the plate.  Victor Tolentino led Saint Rose with two hits and two runs scored.

SNHU trailed 7-1 following a four-run fifth for Saint Rose and the Golden Knights would tack on another run in the bottom of the sixth to make it 8-1.  The Penmen would score three times in the top of the seventh.  Murray would deliver a two-run double down the left field line that scored Eric Pelletier (Beverly, MA) and Jeff Giannino (Beverly, MA).  Rines, who reached on a single earlier in the inning, would score on a wild pitch by Golden Knight hurler Jeremiah St. Louis.

Rines and Murray would lead off the top of the ninth with back-to-back singles.  Rines would score on a double by Byrd.  Murray would score on a groundout by Chris O'Neil (Chelmsford, MA) and Koby Thibault (Salisbury, MA), pinch-running for Byrd, would bring SNHU within one when he scored when Scott Strong (Naperville, IL) reached on a Saint Rose error.  With the tying run aboard, Giannino flied out to end the game.

Saint Rose jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first, and after making it 3-0 on a leadoff home run by Jake Perez in the fourth, scored four times in the fifth to take a 7-1 lead.  The hosts would score four runs with the aid of just one hit, as they benefitted from four walks and a Southern New Hampshire error.  Pelletier had gotten the Penmen on the board in the top of the frame when his groundout scored Strong.

St. Louis earned the win for Saint Rose, going 6.1 innings and fanning eight while scattering seven hits.  Greg Lyons (Canton, MA) took the loss for the Penmen, working the first four and a third innings and allowing eight hits and six runs, all earned.  He struck out four.

Southern New Hampshire returns to action Tuesday afternoon when it travels to Bryant University for a 3:30 contest.  That game was originally scheduled to be played at SNHU but was moved to Bryant due to unplayable field conditions in Manchester.