HACKETTSTOWN, N.J. – The Neumann University baseball team dropped a 9-6 decision at Centenary University on Friday afternoon in an Atlantic East Conference contest.
 
Andrew Curran went 3-for-3 with two runs and two RBI. Anthony Basciano was 2-for-2 with three RBI.
 
Nate Griffin started the game and went the first 6.2 innings. He allowed eight runs, seven earned, on nine hits. Nick Colon pitched 1.1 innings out of the pen and allowed a run on a hit and struck out three.
 
The Knights jumped on the board in the top of the second when Curran hit a two-run homerun. The Cyclones tied the game back up at two in the home half of the second.
 
Down 3-2, Nick Glebocki hit a homerun to knot the game at three in the fifth. Basciano knocked in Curran in the sixth for Neumann to take a 4-3 edge.
 
Centenary had a big inning in the seventh as it scored five runs to take an 8-4 lead. With two runners on base in the top of the eighth, Basciano hit a two-run triple to score Philip Pfaffman and Zach Ray and pull back within two, 8-6.
 
The Cyclones added an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth for the 9-6 score.
 
Neumann (6-9, 2-2 Atlantic East) will host Centenary for a doubleheader tomorrow beginning at 12:00.