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Staten Island, NY - Wagner notched set season-highs in runs and hits en route to a decisive 13-9 win over Lafayette in non conference action at Kamine Stadium. The Seahawks improve to 7-12 with the win while the Leopards fall to 5-11-1.

Eight different members of the Green & White hit safely, while collecting 13 hits as senior Eddie Brown (Edison, NJ / St. Joseph's (Metuchen) / Seton Hall) led the onslaught, reaching base safely five time en route to a 3-for-4, two HBP performance at the plate while adding two RBI and a run scored.

Wagner jumped in front with a run in the top of the first inning. Graduate student Bill Murphy (Cranford, NJ / Roselle Catholic / Rutgers) crushed this double with one out while extending his hitting streak to 11 games. Brown followed with this infield single, pushing Murphy to third. Murphy would come around to score the game's first run on this Hayden Hunter (Santa Monica, CA / Notre Dame) sacrifice fly.

The Seahawks extended the lead to 2-0 in the top of the second inning on a Nick Alfano (So., Coral Springs, FL / North Broward Prep) RBI ground out, plating junior Jayson Keel (Starkville, MS / Starkville / Holmes CC), who led off the frame with this single.

Wagner then broke the game open in the top of the third inning with seven run on five hits and one error while sending a season-high 12 batters to the plate. Murphy led off with his second single of the game before Brown was plunked. Hunter then reached on a successful sacrifice bunt, when the throw to first was high, allowing Murphy to score and Brown to advance to third. Following an out, Keel brought around Brown and Hunter with a two-run triple. Freshman Nick Dini (Monroe Township, NJ / Monroe Township) followed with a walk before junior Chris Smith (Tampa, FL / Freedom / Ellsworth (IA) CC) got into the hit parade with a run-scoring single, plating Keel to make it 6-0 while knocking LHP Connor Ortolf out of the game.

Alfano greeted RHP Chris Boyce with a single that loaded the bases, before Ian Miller followed with a two-run single. Murphy then capped the scoring with a sacrifice fly, to make it 10-0.

Lafayette finally got on the board on the bottom part of the fourth with a single run before adding three in the bottom of the fifth inning.

The Leopards would continue to fight, plating three more runs in the bottom of the sixth, cutting the deficit to 10-7.

Wagner, however, would answer with three runs in the top of the seventh inning. Keel and Smith walked, sandwiched between a Dini single to load the bases with no outs. Alfano plated Keel with a sacrifice fly before the bases were again loaded when Murphy was hit by a pitch with two outs. Brown picked up a pair of two-out RBI with a single to center field, scoring Dini and Smith while extending the lead out to 13-7.

Lafayette would tack on single runs in the bottom of the seventh and eighth innings but could get no closer, falling 13-9.

Sophomore RHP Nick Pavia (Staten Island, NY / St. Joseph By The Sea) picked up his first collegiate win while improving to 1-1 on the year. The Staten Island native struck out three while yielding four runs, three earned, on six hits over a career-best 5.0 innings.

Keel, like Brown, had a big game going 2-for-4 with three runs, two RBI, a triple and a stolen base while Dini and Murphy each also recorded multiple hits.

The Leopards, which outhit the Seahawks 14-13, were paced by their 7-8-9 hitters, which went 9-for-14 with six RBI and four runs.

RHP John Gentile (0-4) assumed the loss, giving up one run on two hits over an inning of work.

Wagner opens a four-game set with Monmouth on Friday, March 23 at 3:00 pm at Richmond County Bank Ballpark.