Box Score
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. -- Notre Dame closed out its Florida trip with a 10-4 loss to Ohio Dominican on Saturday.

The Falcons (8-12) ceded an early 7-0 lead to the Panthers (4-10) and struggled offensively through the first six innings of the nine-inning affair. In dropping the Saturday-morning contest, Notre Dame closed out its 10-game spring-break sojourn with a 5-5 record.

Bryan Pyper started the game for Notre Dame, and he was touched up for six runs over 1-2/3 innings. Zach Gresch relieved Pyper, and he allowed four runs over 6-1/3 innings. Dan Poskocil pitched one scoreless frame. Pyper and Gresch were at least partially undone by a Falcon defense that committed four errors. The Panthers, however, did manage 12 hits in the game, four more than NDC.

All but one of those eight Falcon hits came over the final three innings of action. ODU starter Daniel Mooney allowed just one single over his first six innings. NDC finally put together a threat in the seventh when four hits produced three runs.

But Ohio Dominican countered with its own trio of runs in the next half inning, taking the air out of a potential late-inning comeback for the Falcons.

Mooney's final line was comprised of five hits and three runs allowed over seven innings. He struck out six while walking two. Josh Henderson finished the game for the Panthers, working the eighth and ninth and allowing one run.

That one run for NDC came via an eighth-inning RBI double by senior outfielder Pat Ross. The hit marked Ross' second double of the game; he went 2-for-4. Ross and fellow senior Jesse Carriere, who went 3-for-4, provided the bulk of the NDC offense and they did so in the bottom third of the Falcon batting order.