AUBURNDALE, FL- The nationally-ranked Wheaton College baseball team fell behind for the fourth straight game on Wednesday before succumbing to Rowan University, 4-2 during their Florida trip at the Lake Myrtle Sports Complex.

Ranked 17th nationally by D3baseball.com, the Lyons dropped their second straight game in falling to 2-2.  The Profs raised their overall record to 7-4.

Freshman Frank Holbrook (Middletown, RI/Portsmouth Abbey School) allowed four runs, three earned, on 11 hits with two strikeouts and one walk in 5.2 innings during his college debut, while junior Derek Pelkey (South Hadley, MA/South Hadley) and freshman Jordan Wylie (Plymouth, MA/Avon Old Farms School) combined to toss 2.1 frames of scoreless relief.

Offensively, Wheaton managed just six hits, with junior Eric Laliberte (Nashua, NH/Bishop Guertin) going 2-for-3 with a double and a walk.  Classmate Sean Munley (Trenton, NJ/The Hun School of Princeton) drove in two runs, scored another and added a home run.  Sophomore Dan Haugh (Andover, MA/Saint John's Prep) recorded a double and drew a base on balls.

Wheaton surrendered two runs in the third before Haugh broke up Rowan's pitcher's no-hit bid with two down in the top of the fourth with a two-bagger down the left field line.  After the Profs stretched their advantage to 3-0 in the home half, the Lyons dented the scoring column in the sixth when senior Paul Malaguti (Andover, MA/Andover) scampered home to trim the deficit to two.

Rowan pushed its lead back to three with a run in the bottom of the sixth before Munley's eighth-inning solo blast over the right center field fence made the score 4-2.  With one out in the ninth, senior pinch hitter Jeff Lieneck (Foxboro, MA/Xaverian Brothers) singled through the left side and Laliberte walked, but a strikeout and grounder thwarted the rally.

The Lyons head to Winter Haven tomorrow morning to play in-region opponent Curry College at 9:30 a.m.