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Box Score 1<\/a> | Box Score 2<\/a> <\/p>\n Pomona, NY – Niagara baseball split a Sunday doubleheader with Manhattan taking game one 14-9, before dropping the nightcap 14-3 in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action.<\/p>\n The Purple Eagles moved to 24-17-1, 19-8 MAAC, while the Jaspers moved to 18-29, 9-18 MAAC.<\/p>\n Game One<\/p>\n Niagara struck first with two runs in the first. Elijha Hammill<\/a> and Curtis McKay<\/a> singled to put runners on base, and both eventually scored on a wild pitch and a Rees Kozar<\/a> fielder’s choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n Manhattan answered in the bottom half when Vincent Samuel plated Lordier with a sacrifice fly, making it 2-1 after one.<\/p>\n The Purple Eagles blew the game open with a nine-run third. Hammill led off with a home run to left and Kozar followed with his own solo shot to left. Nick Cote<\/a> then doubled and Tyler Vivacqua singled home Cote, then stole second. Jason Green<\/a> drilled a two-run homer to right center, scoring Vivacqua. Jacob Brooks<\/a> launched a two-run shot. Hammill singled, McKay doubled him home, and Kozar followed with an RBI double down the left-field line as Niagara led 11-1 through three.<\/p>\n Manhattan roared back with a seven-run fourth. Hunter Sute walked to force in a run, while Colin Basehore and Jackson Brinker each singled home a run. With the bases loaded, Jack Dickinson<\/a> replaced Bennett and Lordier doubled in two more. Salva added a sacrifice fly, and Lordier later scored on a balk to cut the Purple Eagles lead to 11-8.<\/p>\n Niagara got a pair of insurance runs in the sixth as Green crushed a two-run homer to right to push the lead to 13-9.<\/p>\n Hammill recorded an RBI single, and McKay’s sacrifice fly scored Brooks to make it 14-9 in the seventh.<\/p>\n