QUINCY, Mass. - The Norwich University baseball team (0-15 overall, 0-4 GNAC) fell in both games of a Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) doubleheader against Suffolk University (11-12 overall, 4-2 GNAC) Sunday afternoon at Adams Field. Mark Annese was 5-for-8 with six RBI in the two games combined in helping the Rams take game one, 16-3, before grabbing an 8-5 win in the nightcap.

Suffolk sent 13 men to the plate in the second inning of game one as they scored eight times and collected seven hits in the frame. Andrew McCarty produced the big blow of the inning, driving in a pair of runs with a single to right. Jake Cintolo also collected a pair of hits in the inning to finish the opener 3-for-4 with an RBI and two runs scored.

The Rams collected 19 hits in game one as Annese, and Cintolo each had three while Nick Travelyn, Stephen Schultz, and McCarty each had a pair of hits.

Mitch Monke (2-2) picked up his second win of the season on the mound going six innings and striking out a dozen Cadets.

Freshman OF Charles Schaub got the Cadets on the board in the fifth with a double to right center to drive in a pair of runs. Senior 1B Dustin Fleming knocked in another run in the sixth after freshman INF Devin Cilley led the inning off with a triple.

Charles Kilgore (1-1) picked up the win on the mound in game two as Suffolk pulled out an 8-5 decision to record the sweep. Kilgore allowed only four hits and three earned runs in six-plus inning of work for the Rams, before giving way to Matt Sliney in the seventh.

NU drew first blood in the nightcap as junior OF David Maxfield scored on a throwing error before Cilley launched a sacrifice fly to drive in Schaub for the 2-0 first-inning cushion. The Rams came right back with three runs of their own in the bottom half as Annese capped off the inning with a two-out single that drove in a pair of runs.

Freshman Devan Jones continued the scoring for the Rams in the second inning as he brought Addesa home to score hitting a single over the third base bag.

Norwich would make things interesting as junior Mitch Blair knocked home Cilley with a sacrifice fly to pull within one run, 4-3, in the fourth inning.

Addesa continued to be a thorn the Cadets' side as he tagged up from third on a short pop up behind the second base bag to give the Rams some insurance in the fourth, making it 5-3. He then got the Rams another run in the fifth as he doubled to deep center to give the Rams a 6-3 edge.

Annese and Remy Carpinito added back-to-back RBI doubles in the home half of the sixth to help cushion the Suffolk lead.

Sophomore RHP Jonathan Philbrook (0-4) gave a gritty performance on the mound for the Cadets as he allowed four earned runs over 4.1 innings, notching four strikeouts in the process, to keep his team within striking distance.

Sophomore OF Dustin Shimkus kept his hitting streak alive in dramatic fashion, as he picked up a single in his first at-bat of the day before waiting until NU's last turn at the plate in game two to deliver a two-RBI single past a diving Mike Cunningham at first base. Shimkus' streak now stands at 12 games.

Norwich will be back in action on Wednesday as it takes on in-state rival Castleton State in a non-conference doubleheader at 3 p.m.