NEW LONDON, Conn. – The sixth-seeded Rivier baseball team downed No. 3 Lasell in Pod B action of the Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) Tournament on Friday afternoon at Alumni Field to earn its first postseason victory since the 2007 campaign.

The Raiders improved to 15-17 with the victory, while Lasell fell to 23-15 with the setback.

Rivier got on the board first, scoring on back-to-back RBI base hits from juniors Dylan Aliberti and Owen Medlock. Lasell cut the Raiders' lead in half in the bottom half of the frame to make it a 2-1 ballgame.

In the top of the fifth, Rivier scored twice to increase its lead to 4-1. Senior Jacob Boudreau recorded an RBI single before classmate Kyle Hsu scored Medlock from third on a squeeze play.

The Raiders added five runs over the eighth and ninth innings coming by way of the long ball, as three different Rivier batters recorded home runs to make it an eight-run game. Junior Nathan Innerfield blasted a solo shot to left before Luis Tejada followed that up with a two-run shot to make it 7-1 in the eighth before first-year Jayce Martinez notched his first collegiate homer.

Lasell only mustered one run in the bottom of the ninth to fall short of a comeback.

Junior starter Anthony Morro earned his fourth run of the season tossing 7.1 innings, giving up one earned run on four hits, three walks, and one hit by pitch while fanning 10 Lasers. His 10 strikeouts put him over 100 in his career. Classmate Ty Baker came in to close out the game in the eighth and allowed one earned run over 1.2 innings of work, striking out three batters faced while giving up one hit and one walk.

At the plate, Rivier amassed 14 hits as Medlock led the way going 3-for-3 with two runs scored and one run batted in. Innerfield, Tejada, Aliberti, and Martinez each registered two hits.

The Raiders return to Alumni Field for a matchup against the hosts, Mitchell, with a first pitch scheduled for noon.