Brookville, NY - The Wagner baseball team withstood an early two-run deficit as the Seahawks claimed a 4-2 lead heading into the bottom of the fourth before the LIU Sharks knotted the game with two runs and erupted for eight more runs over the fifth and sixth inning to top the Green & White, 15-5, in the series opener on Thursday afternoon. 
 
With the loss, Wagner (8-23; 5-5 NEC) saw its three-game win streak halted while the Sharks (22-11; 7-3 NEC) upped their consecutive win streak to seven. 
 
All nine starters for the Green & White got a hit in the contest with Maimu Kobayashi leading the way with two hits. Lukas Torres scored two of the five runs while Dante Faicchio and Mateo Matthews drove in two RBIs apiece on the day. DiMaggio Cazares added the fifth RBI in a pinch-hit capacity. 
 
Frankie Wright was saddled with the loss (3-4), giving up seven runs (four earned) on nine hits over 4.1 innings.
 
Colin Adams was one of seven Sharks to produce a multi-hit game, as he finished with a team-high four hits. EJ Expositio and Christopher Wesson tallied three hits with Espositio driving in a game-best four RBIs. 
 
Michael Edelman, Seth Surrett, Connor Price, and Christopher Hund added two hits with Edelman, Surrett, and Price combing to drive in six RBIs, led by Edleman's three. 
 
Joshua Loeschorn allowed five runs (four earned) over 5.2 innings in picking up the win as he squandered nine hits, walked one, and struck out five batters. Nick Torres threw 3.1 scoreless innings of relief to earn his fifth save of the season. 
 
Expositio got the scoring going for LIU, as he clubbed a 2-0, two-run home run over the left-field wall, as the Sharks grabbed the early lead. 
 
Wagner tied the game in the top half of the third, as Matthews scorched a double to right field, which brought in both Faicchio and Torres, knotting the game at 2-2. 
 
The visitors took their lone lead of the contest in the fourth. Back-to-back two-out singles from Kobayashi and Torres gave Wagner runners on bases before coming in on the RBI double from Faicchio, as the Seahawks went up 4-2. 
 
The Sharks wasted little time in responding, as Expositio doubled down the left-field line to bring in Hund, narrowing the gap to one run. The next batter, Giovanni Ciaccio, lofted a sacrifice fly to center, bringing in the tying run in Surrett as the game was deadlocked at 4-4. 
 
After Wagner was retired in order in the top half of the fifth, the home team sparked a seven-run frame, thanks to a pair of two-run home runs from Edelman and Wasson before Surrett added a two-run RBI single to right-center as LIU led 11-4. 
 
The Seahawks got a run back in the sixth as DiMaggio Cazares connected on his first home run of the season. Adams answered back with a solo shot in the bottom of the inning, increasing the lead back to seven. 
 
LIU put a firm stance on the outcome of the contest as Price led off the inning with a first-pitch solo home run to left-center before Edelman reached on an infield single to third, which brought in a run and Expositio capped the inning with an RBI double to left. 
 
These two teams will continue their series tomorrow afternoon from LIU Baseball Stadium, as the first-pitch is set for 1:00 p.m.